The Poynter institute has launched a career page. You can view it here: careers.poynter.org. Ads at the Poynter site are $150/month for a “basic” package with other add-ons. Karen Brown Dunlap explains more here: New Rail, New Venture, Same Old Bottom Line.
The Poynter initiative is a new entrant into a category that already features JournalismJobs.com and job boards for various professional organizations like SPJ, SND, NPPA and others. Significantly, several of those job boards are behind “membership walls,” where you have to pay for a membership to access the job board section. Visual Editors is one job board that doesn’t require a membership fee (although it does require a free registration), as was noted in the comments to the Poynter article. It will be interesting to see how Poynter’s job board competes with those other methods of posting help wanted ads specific to journalism. There are also employment search engines like Indeed.com which provides links to jobs from numerous job sites related to a search term.
Of course, this also raises the question: why doesn’t someone do a Craigslist for journalism jobs?
(disclosure: As part of my duties as webmaster for College Media Advisers, Inc., I maintain the “jobs” page. Jobs posted on the CMA web site are free)
on Oct 17th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Yeah, It’s true - the jobs board is the one are that non-registered scholars can not view in detail on VizEds - though everyone can see the latest job postings on the home page.
It is by design and withouot it there would be no mechanism to prevent abuse. The jobs board is the one area that demands a level of authentication. Employers don’t mind cause their free job posts reach into newsrooms around the world every day. Plus, you can’t beat the price.
If you are a coder and would like to develop a better jobs board for our little non-profit - please contact us.
on Oct 17th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Irony = My new employer advertised my new job on their job site for three months. I never saw it. I called 20 minutes after they posted the job on craigslist.