Anyone looking for a job today needs to understand that he or she will be investigated before being hired. For any savvy editor — print, broadcast or online — that means a Google search on your name. A survey by CareerBuilder tells us the results:
Of those hiring managers who used Internet search engines to research […]

Paul Conley went to Folio: Show and helped the magazine editors and publishers in finding their way through the online, digital world:
Most folks seemed most interested in basic, how-to information about content-management systems, multimedia software and writing for the Web.
No problem with that — you’ve got to start somewhere! Here are his top tips:

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Shane Richmond of the London Telegraph wrote a pair of very good posts earlier this month. In the second, which also has some excellent comments attached, he provided these suggestions for how media organizations can prepare for the future:
1. Remain relevant by: (a) Serving all your audiences; (b) Trusting your specialists (people on staff who […]

Alex Halavais was talking about Wikipedia when he wrote this, but I couldn’t help thinking of small citizen journalism (or community journalism) Web sites:
The point behind advertising is to persuade consumers to behave in a way that they wouldn’t otherwise behave. The expense is justified by the profit they can draw from these changes in […]

Sure, it’s a no-brainer when you pause to consider … but Paul Bradshaw made a good point about this:
… executives are missing a unique opportunity and picking the lazy option in opting for video instead of more innovative and engaging journalism forms.
… Video is, if anything, even less interactive than print. You cannot scan-read […]

Cade White has added a new post to his ongoing project about newspaper photographers shooting video.
Today’s post features a video documenting Dallas Morning News photojournalist Rick Gershon shooting the third day of a roller coaster ride-a-thon at Six Flags over Texas. You might remember him as the 2004 College Photographer of the Year. In […]

The one-woman news site I blogged about yesterday got its start because no one wanted to publish news about a town with only 430 residents.
As a student in an in-depth reporting course at the University of Florida, Cher Phillips completed a series of stories about the town where she lives, McIntosh, Florida. In spring 2006, […]