Some newspapers reinvent themselves to ride the obvious wave in consumption of news and information in North America. Others retrench, diverting money and resources away from the online — or worse, leave the Web site in the hands of the marketing department.
Which kind of newspaper will survive and thrive, do you think?
The Las Vegas Sun [...]

The advertisement reads:
INTERACTIVE Help build our award-winning website. Assist with online community building, web research, interactive features, HTML coding, image/audio/video editing and writing articles and interviews.
The internship is at P.O.V. (Point-of-View), the public television series of independent non-fiction film and video. “P.O.V. films have won every coveted television and film award, including 18 Emmys, 11 [...]

Following its announcements of staffing cuts at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, the Tribune Co. continues to make plans for the future. From the memo to the Orlando Sentinel newsroom:

We must grow audience rapidly on the Web. That means changing the way we work. It means gaining new skills and creating new [...]

Rob Curley is looking for summer interns at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.
We want solid journalists who can write their backsides off. We’re also looking for programmers with an understanding of Django. And if you’re a kick-ass designer with killer Flash or motion-graphics skills, we want you.
Via Meranda Watling.
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Yet another sign of how out-of-touch some journalism teachers and professors are: Do aspiring young journalists need hardcopy of their clips today? (Do they even need clips at all?) Maybe the old-style packet of a printed résumé and photocopied clips is outmoded.
Meranda Watling has been the education reporter at the Journal & Courier, in Lafayette, [...]

Paul Conley asks us to revisit the novel “The Great Gatsby” online.
What you’ll find is that even “Gatsby” cannot sing on a computer screen. Writing well is about choosing the right medium as much as it is choosing the right word. And the computer screen (or a PDA) is not the right medium for Fitzgerald.
So [...]

I compiled this selection of three real, current job announcements as a snapshot of what’s happening in our field:
KGTV, the ABC affiliate in San Diego, is looking for a “convergence manager” to work with “the news director and Web managing editor to improve the quality and relevance of coverage on air, online and on mobile, [...]