Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post (and comments). Tonight, at our weekly drinking session, a fellow journalist called me on the fact that I was planning to name names and point fingers at companies that gave money […]
Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. If you’re in town in Shanghai on a Thursday night — and now you have an excuse to come visit — join us at Cotton’s Bar on the corner of Anting
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post (and comments). I get asked this question a lot “how do you become a foreign correspondent”? I’ve answered it a lot as well (one of these answers is posted here: http://maria.trombly.com/FAQ.htm#correspondent).
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Pay for freelance journalism is atrociously low pay. But I think the problem goes deeper than stingy bosses, etc… I think that journalism is one of those jobs, like tending bar, that you don’t really have to know much in order to be able to do well. You need to be able to write the
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When I left college I had a handful of clips from the local alternative newsweekly, one of them a cover story on town-gown relations. That’s it. No journalism degree, no internships, no other editing or writing experience. I went to Chicago, and, within a couple of months was working as one of the “full-time freelancers”
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I beginning journalist asked me this question: I’m worried about getting a journalism job. Should I go to graduate school? I’m sure plenty of people will disagree with me on this, but, having been in a position to hire recent graduates in the past (and having faced this same question myself) I have to strongly
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A beginning journalist asked me about the value of interships and networking. I haven’t done any interships. Will that hurt me when I look for my first job? Also, I haven’t done as much networking as some of my classmates. Do you have to be really aggressive to be a journalist? You don’t need interships,
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