Comments on: What a young journalist should know

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:37:37 +0000

It’s been my impression that we online evangelists “don’t get no respect” from anyone except our own kind. That meeting with our advisory council was the first time in any faculty meeting that I felt as if a number of people around me were speaking the same language as me. It felt great!

By: Paul Conley

Paul Conley — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:46:39 +0000

It does appear that most of the media world has caught on — at last! The magazines I work with have begun to fire those “legacy editors” that can’t or won’t pick up new media skills. Today, very few of the journalists I know think they can continue to work in this field without developing the ability to work online. As recently as a year ago, I had dozens of friends who insisted that they would always be print-only journalists.
But I do still meet students who seem tied to an ink and paper past. And as near as I can tell, it’s because they spend too much time listening to out-of-touch teachers.
So bigredbarbie, know that you made the right move. Send me a resume as you near graduation.

By: Bigredbarbie

Bigredbarbie — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:30:29 +0000

wow, you mean i may actually get a job next year!? You know multimedia journalism is, I believe, treated with a certain amount of disrespect at U of Texas. When I transferred into multimedia I had a magazine professor who told me how I was wasting my time and how there was no money for these skills and it wasn’t real journalism. Turns out what he treated as a handicap is going to be an advantage