You already know that prospective employers are looking for journalists with social media skills. The Statesman-Journal in Salem, Oregon, certainly is. Executive Editor Bill Church recently advertised an opening for a “talented reporter with high digital IQ.” If you’re talented,…
For all the emphasis on multimedia and technology in today’s newsrooms, the basics are just as important as ever. That’s what journalism professor Laura Smith concluded after spending a month this summer working at KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas. In a…
Some critics would have you believe there’s very little point in getting a college degree in journalism. Writing in The Nation, Michael Tracy asserts that a journalism degree is unnecessary because you can get a job in the news business…
The annual survey of journalism and mass communications graduates finds that most grads are using the Web skills they’ve learned in school and wishing they had more. The majority of 2010 bachelor’s degree recipients said they had the skill when…
“There are currently good opportunities for broadcast journalism grads, at least in medium and small markets.” Talk about great news for thousands of students sporting brand new degrees and hunting for work. According to TVNewsCheck, the newly graduated may not…
Where are the jobs in TV news? Just ask news director Bruce Barkley of WAPT in Jackson, Miss. “Want to be a producer? asks Barkley. He’s not kidding, either. Year after year, news directors lament that for every reporter job…
So, you can’t find or don’t want a traditional journalism job? Maybe you’ve kicked around the idea of getting into freelancing as a sideline? If so, writer and editor Dana Neuts has some suggestions. Neuts has been freelancing full time in…
What are news directors looking for in an entry- level reporter? After a month of working at WTVA in Tupelo and talking with the news director, student journalist Allie Ware is sharing some of the insight she’s gained. WTVA’s news director,…
Are you getting everything you can out of your internships? It’s more important than ever in the current job market. Depending on how you handle yourself during an internship, you can either wind up first in line for the next…
You may have heard the expression, “Kidding on the side,” which loosely means humor with more than a grain of truth. That’s what you’ll find in this “text-to-movie” segment about a witless reporter candidate created on xtranormal.com. These text animation services…
