Sunday, April 15, 2007

Career advice about -- and from -- the online publishing world The always serendipitous blogosphere has a batch of discussions coinciding with my Online Journalism class's topics for the last couple of weeks of the semester -- teaching yourself more online skills than any one class covers, and exploring the relationship between "online" media and jobs for journalism school graduates... New Media Skills = Better Job Prospects (Innovation in College Media) Three job tips for students from Paul Conley, who also points out that... Folks with resumes need not apply for a new job at Wired (instead forward a blog post). Related observations from the PBS Media Shift blog by Mark Glaser About those jobs from Mark Hamilton in Vancouver California grad student Ryan Sholin even posted An informal poll on what I should learn next (With a great chain of answers from some serious experts) The Wall Street Journal has its own item on How Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job, and not just in "online media." The pro-am hybrid answer to the question "what can I do with my journalism skills?" -- contribute some fact-finding time to newassignment.net Finally, for a different twist, here's Rex Hammock describing Nashville TV exec Mike Sechrist: ... no longer a TV executive trying to figure out blogging, he's a blogger running a TV station. 3:12:19 AM    comment []

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