Comments on: Good news on the job front

By: Deborah Potter

Deborah Potter — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:02:08 +0000

Thanks for reading, Greg. I’m not sure where you looked for recent postings, but if you visit the site on a regular basis you’ll find several new entries each week. So do come back!

By: Greg Millard (Bahrain)

Greg Millard (Bahrain) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:45:01 +0000

I have just come across this site. Is it still active? It doesn’t appear to have many recent postings. I am new to blogging and I am immersing myself in new mediaand woulkd love to follow this site,

Thanks,
Greg Millard

By: chris horrie

chris horrie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:45:36 +0000

I meant “growing” – not “going”!

By: chris horrie

chris horrie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:44:47 +0000

Commecial radio is pretty much dying out in the UK as well – the economics are not there now webbased media can strip out classified advertising. We have the BBC in the UK though, which is what is keeping speech radio alive. It is in fact actually going – but everyone in the country has to pay a tax of about $200 (licence fee) which in theory is a sales tax on TV sets. You go to jail if you don’t pay it. There a debate about that – and your Fox man Rupert Murdoch here gets his papers to ceasely campaign for its abolition.

But that’s the future in the multimedia world – some collective way of creating a pot of money to make ‘content’ and organisational arrangements to protect editorial independnce

By: dpotter

dpotter — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:01:57 +0000

While it’s true that news on the commercial radio dial is pretty hard to find in most US cities, the stations Walter mentions may be hiring. We can’t know, because they weren’t on the job fair list. But both are owned by CBS, which was on the list.
As if to confirm the point that companies are replacing more experienced, expensive employees with new graduates, CBS-owned TV stations have started cutting jobs left and right. Last week, video editor Shawn Montano, who had just won his second NPPA Editor of the Year award, was let go by WCNC-TV in Denver. Stations in Minneapolis and Philadelphia also let staffers go.

By: Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Wednesday squibs, business edition

Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Wednesday squibs, business edition — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:24:06 +0000

[...] Good news on the job front. Sort of: there are more jobs for rookies because the higher-priced talent is being bought out. Includes this: “… [Columbia j-school] annual job fair, scheduled for next weekend, has drawn more recruiters than ever. But only 18 of the 110 employers participating are newspapers. Most are online, TV and magazine companies. [...]

By: Walter L. Johnson II

Walter L. Johnson II — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:57:23 +0000

As someone who currently works in both newspaper and radio, I’m not surprised to see a small number of newspapers participating in this job fair.

But looking at the list of participants, there are just a handful of radio companies participating in the event, too, all public radio.

The lack of commercial radio participants in this job fair, even New York all-news stations WCBS and WINS, is very alarming, but doesn’t come as a huge surprise.