The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ annual report on college graduates has drawn a lot of attention to journalists’ salaries in recent weeks.
During a live chat, Michigan State University’s Joe Grimm addressed the study and offered strategies for … Read more
In a recent essay, I described how Tom French and I wrote our books using what I called “the buddy system.” In response, one writer tweeted: “Wish I had a buddy.”
So where do you find a buddy? And … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Glenn Burkins, editor/publisher of Qcitymetro.com in Charlotte, N.C.
Burkins, who started his site in 2008 after more than two decades with major metro newspapers, talked about why and how he started … Read more
During this week’s career chat, we talked with Holly Edgell, the new community editor at WCPO-TV, an ABC affiliate in Cincinnati. Edgell talked about what goes into the job, its objectives, and how the community editor role is expanding. … Read more
While many recent changes in journalism have led to budget cuts and layoffs, others have created new opportunities — to tell stories in nontraditional ways, develop different skills, and guide the industry in promising directions.
Now more than ever, young … Read more
Resolutions are daunting — especially New Year’s resolutions. Getting more exercise, quitting smoking, reading more books — can we stick to our resolutions past January, and will these new behaviors make us better people?
Well, maybe not in all cases, … Read more
Chris Seper, founder and CEO of MedCity Media, recently wrote that the best way to save a newspaper is to stop acting like one. Newspaper companies, he said, need to start thinking of themselves as being in the … Read more
One of the newest jobs on the landscape is Dao Nguyen‘s positon as director of growth at BuzzFeed. As TechCrunch’s Drew Olanoff recently explained, Nguyen’s job is to “build traffic by helping readers find the content that … Read more
Shazna Nessa, a deputy managing editor at the Associated Press, joined us for this week’s career chat.
During the chat, she talked about the skills journalists need to succeed in the field and ways that they can make themselves more … Read more
I’ll let you in on a secret: most of my career thus far was built with other people’s money.
I’ve conducted research in Cuba and Oman, lived in Singapore and England, and traveled around the world — all thanks to … Read more