USA Today puts together some amazing online interactives with a surprisingly small staff. Just five people are typically involved in putting together major projects, says Chet Czarniak, managing editor of USAToday.com–a designer, programmer, producer, IT person and database editor. The results are often impressive, like this searchable database of US war casualties in Iraq and [...]
A reporter in her early 20s starts losing her hair. Another loses weight and has symptoms of depression. Everyone knows journalism is a tough business, but that doesn’t make it any easier to cope with the stress of feeling overworked and unsatisfied in your chosen profession. Scott Reinardy of the University of Kansas surveyed young [...]
Boomer bosses, take note. It may be time to change the way you look at your younger employees. So says Mary Rogus, a veteran TV news producer who now teaches at Ohio University. Yes, the Gen Y-Millennials are different from their older colleagues. They care much more about having a personal life so they’re sometimes [...]
Technology has made lots of jobs obsolete over the years. Remember telephone operators? Back in the day, TV photojournalists routinely went out on stories with a sound person and even a lighting tech. The days of the three-person crew are long over. Now, some video editors may become obsolete. New technology that can automatically transcribe [...]
Optimism doesn’t exactly rule in newsrooms today, but the AP’s Micah Gelman is bucking the trend. He’s recently been named executive producer for domestic video, a job that didn’t exist when he got into the business a decade ago as a local TV news producer. Gelman believes more new jobs will be created and they’ll [...]
Has there ever been a worse time to be looking for work in the news business? I can’t think of one, and I’ve lived through other recessions that forced newsroom layoffs, like the painful cuts at CBS in the 1980s. So what can you do if you’re in the market for a job or just [...]
B-Roll.Net Lists jobs for photojournalists. Broadcast Executive Directors career page Listings from the Broadcast Executive Directors Assn. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Listing of jobs in public television and radio. Indeed (Television News) Free, searchable site; info can be sorted by salary range, company, job title and location. Indiana University job page Journalism school’s links to [...]
Reflections from Rhonda McBride, KTUU-TV, Anchorage, Alaska You could say I took the road less traveled. But out in the Bush Country of Alaska, you have to ask, “What road?” I became a professional story teller in an unorthodox way, so it’s probably not surprising that in 1988, I found myself doing an unorthodox job [...]
Tips from Brad Ingram, photojournalist, WGHP-TV Within the last year there have been mass layoffs in both newspapers and television news. Some of us has have experienced this first hand while others have seen colleagues laid off. Having been laid off before in another profession, I developed this quick check list to see if you’re [...]
Here’s a question I get all the time: What do journalists need to know to get hired these days? There’s no simple answer, of course. It depends on who you ask and what kind of news organization you’re applying to. You need the basics, obviously, but to stand out from the crowd you need to [...]
If it hadn’t been for a cell phone camera, the world would never have seen video of Saddam Hussein’s execution. The first video of the London subway bombings came in via cell phone, too, not from journalists but from commuters who saw it all happen. With so many camera phones in circulation, it’s no wonder [...]