The Chicago Sun-Times’ decision to lay off its entire photo staff raises important questions about how photographers can keep themselves in high demand. During this week’s career chat, we talked with Jeff Knox, senior director of photography at the … Read more
During this week’s career chat, we talked with science and health reporter Jane Stevens, who turned her passion into a news startup, ACEs Too High. (ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences.)
The site — which focuses on how … Read more
In the crowded world of sports journalism, Justin Rice created his own beat by writing about Boston’s high school sports teams — a topic that he thought was undercovered. Rice created his own website, Boston Public School Sports, which … Read more
Few successful journalists make it all on their own. Most have help from mentors and become mentors themselves.
During this week’s career chat, we’ll talk with Randall Yip, senior producer at KGO-TV in San Francisco. Yip and I are … Read more
There’s a good chance you already have the equipment you need to add video to your reporting skill set. In an increasingly visual and mobile news environment, that can be a job saver.
During a live chat, experienced multimedia journalist … Read more
When I moved from Baltimore to Dallas seven years ago this month for a one-year internship at The Dallas Morning News, I knew one person in the city. He was my best friend from college at the University of Maryland … Read more
Instead of a cover letter, please send us instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Text, images, video... the format for your PB&J tutorial is up to you, as long following your instructions results in a really delicious sandwich."Cover letters are often boring and this seemed like a more fun, illuminating way to get a sense of how a job applicant communicates," Alice DuBois, who is BuzzFeed's product lead for editorial tools, tells Poynter.
Scott Elliott, incoming president of the Education Writers Association, is the education reform reporter at The Indianapolis Star.
That’s a pretty unusual job title and a beat that Elliott pretty much carved out himself. During a live chat, … Read more
Are you a resourceful, fun and determined people person?In an email to Poynter, Felice News Founder + Optimist Max Jones writes, "We've had a great response" about the ads' tone. He notes that an NPR job listing was "the big inspiration" for the ad.
If you are all of the above AND experienced in a news/journalism environment, I will high five you. If you possess all of these traits and no news/journalism experience, but have an interest in the craft and a demonstrated history of recruiting in varied fields, I’d like to hear from you (and you may still get a high five further in the process!).