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As promised, I’m embedding the audio from the “Future of Journalism” panel discussion held last Wednesday at EIU. Panelists were: Will Sullivan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLToday, John Foreman, publisher of the News-Gazette of Champaign-Urbana, Ill. and Nancy Foreman, executive producer at WCIA-TV3 in Champaign. Jeff Lynch, interim dean of the EIU College of Arts and Humanities . . . → Read More: Future of Journalism panel audio  Comments are closed  Academics, career talk, hope for the future, industry news  career talk, future of journalism, Journalism, Multimedia, social media, stltoday.com Rob Curley (file photo) Rob Curley spoke this weekend at the Associated Collegiate Press gathering in Phoenix. It was the first time he’s spoken in public in 18 months, he said. His keynote speech was interesting, but the better session was a Q&A that followed. During that time, he talked about some of the plans the . . . → Read More: Curley’s advice: Write well photo by Flickr user dlewis5 / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Editor’s note: This is a re-post of something I wrote in 2007. I was following some referral logs yesterday, and came across a post by Len Witt about students who want to be great writers. We’ve had a lot of readers come and go in the past . . . → Read More: ICM classics: Last words of a journalist: not my job As student journalists master the different ways social media can be used to report news and strengthen a publication, tools such as Twitter, Facebook and personal blogging can play an important role in nabbing a job or internship. Think of it this way — it’s a bit more complicated than just sending out a resume and hard-copy . . . → Read More: Using social media to land a job Comments - (Comments are closed) Community, General Media, blogging, career talk, industry news, internships, social media
You might have heard of the journalism punching bag I created, AngryJournalist.com, and if you’re a college student right now it’s probably a discouraging place to frequent given all the horror stories that’s on there. It’s not completely hopeless, despite all the doom and gloom, however, you can’t assume that your college education will be all you need to snag a job. Remember, your journalism degree’s probably no different than the thousands of other j-degrees out there that other graduates have. The only thing that’s going to set you apart from the pack and help you land a job is ultimately related to the amount of self-initiative and investment you place within yourself.
Photo by GoodImages via Flickr I could post these to my delicious feed, but I’m actually trying to be less “automated” in things I blog about these days, so here goes: Angela Grant provides some valuable insight for future journalists with a recent entry about her search for new employment: Reporter jobs come up most frequently . . . → Read More: A couple of quick hits Rumaging through our Blip.tv archives, I came across this video I shot with Dwayne Yancey from the Roanoke Times (posted in early 2007). It reminds me of a conversation I had with an editor for a Chicago metro magazine who spoke at EIU last year. She said one of the big impressions students make on her when . . . → Read More: Timely reminder for young journos Image via WikipediaIn light of the news that the L.A. Times is planning more staff cuts, Will Sullivan’s massive compendium of job-hunting tips is a great resource, and useful for students just starting out as well. Earlier in the year, following some unsettling layoffs in the news business, I published a list of 94 links for job . . . → Read More: Journerdist’s career tips Alfred Hermida, blogging at PBS’ MediaShift, has a series of video interviews with industry leaders about what journalism students will need to know for the future. Go watch. (via Len . . . → Read More: Future skills for journalists via College Rag, a note that college journalists and writers can sign up with Writer’s Residence for a free online portfolio … for a year. After the year is up, it’s $8.95/month. This is not something I’d recommend. Instead, a student could set up a WordPress.com or Blogger site and post their writing samples there. Have photos . . . → Read More: Free(?) Portfolio hosting |
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EDIT: Originally posted in March, 2008, I’m promoting this post again on the occasion of angryjournalist.com’s 10,000th comment today (as mentioned by @howardowens and @digidave on Twitter). How much of the advice do you think is still relevant? – ed.
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