Inspired by a post by Amy Gahran, in which she said today’s journalists will not find tomorrow’s jobs in news organizations — “at least, not in news orgs as we’ve grown accustomed to them over the last century” — I went poking around on JournalismJobs.com to see what I could find that sounded interesting, not […]

I’m still bullish on journalism, but young people considering a career in journalism need to get the facts straight:

Most longtime journalists will tell you: they don’t do it for the money. If you love going to work every day, that’s worth a lot more than having a bunch of knickknacks in your house. (On the […]

Yesterday I had a conversation with a reporter whose news organization has committed to forming a new Web/digital team. His questions made me think about how undefined this work still is, on the whole.
He asked whether there is any book or Web site that explains the differences among all the job titles he’s encountered — […]

Two snips out of Howard Kurtz’s Washington Post column on May 25:
… we are working harder than ever, in part because of the round-the-clock demands of the Web; Post campaign reporters are constantly writing online items for The Trail column in addition to their daily stories. So to suggest that a shrinkage of the Post […]

Recent news about the journalism business has been depressing. I’m sure you’ve noticed. So it’s kind of hard to get jazzed about writing a blog post sometimes. Yoni Greenbaum was feeling the same way, it seems:
… our newsrooms and online operations are being overtly influenced by dinosaurs who are content with seeing their employer struggle […]

Unlike that guy in the movie “The Graduate” who said just one word to Dustin Hoffman — “Plastics” — an MSNBC.com deputy editor had two words for journalism students:
Databases and Flash.
In fact, MSNBC.com’s Tom Brew told us he had been given those two words by Hal Straus, the interactivity and communities editor at Washingtonpost.com. […]

When a longtime journalist comes in to speak to journalism students, you’re never sure what you’re going to hear. Some ramble on about their glorious stories, their coups and earthquakes. Others speak more from the heart, and we get a sense of how this profession insinuates itself under the skin.
Tom Brew, deputy editor at MSNBC.com, […]