Business news site TheStreet.com will offer free content syndication to newspapers in return for links and ‘prominent attribution’ in print and online.
Tags: news site, syndication, TheStreet.com
NiemanJournalismLab looks at the toolkit of NBC News’ digital journalist Mara Schiavocampo and discusses what workflows and equipment work best for her as a backpack, multimedia journalist.
Tags: digital journalist, Mara Schiavocampo, multimedia journalist, NBC
Derivadow.com explains how the BBC has been experimenting with using the web as a CMS for its programmes and music sites.
Tags: BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, cms, Derivadow.com
Translating RSS feeds: Found a blog, but it’s not in your first language? Mloovi.com offers an RSS feed translation service for 35 languages – it’s not perfect translation but certainly gives you the gist. Tipster: Laura Oliver.
To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
Tags: Journalism.co.uk, Laura Oliver, RSS, translation
In a posthumous editorial, murdered Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge foretells his own death and hints at how it will happen.
“When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me,” he wrote in the column, which was published just days after he was shot dead in the country’s capital, Colombo.
Tags: Colombo, Guardian.co.uk, journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lanka
Creator of fake @dailymail_uk Twitter account has username changed by Twitter following legal pressure from the newspaper publisher.
Tags: dailymail_uk, newspaper publisher, The Daily Mail, Twitter
In the name of research I have decided to send my CV to a cross-section of different industry people for their views and post their advice on this blog – see my earlier post on the problems of CV writing for journalists.
[View the current state of my CV, as reviewed by the editor below, at this link]
[View Amy's CV - updated based on the feedback - at this link]
Crit #1
It’s always nice to start with a proper annihilation and the first response I had was just that.
This editor does not want to be named. He has no NCTJ or other journalism qualifications and started out by writing about what he knew. He then worked his way up the ladder in business journalism, which he says, some people sneer at, but pays (on average) better than consumer.
Now he travels all over the world with his job and is on a great £45,000 salary.
His comments are in italics:
Ouch, but good point. My CV is too long. I was worried about taking out my previous jobs for fear of having gaps, but this editor said if it isn’t relevant ditch it and a lot of other people have said that as well.
Now this is some sound advice I think. This particular editor kindly forwarded me his CV and has put what level he is at various things in brackets i.e. Photoshop (basic) Dreamweaver (advanced) etc.
Links and articles: it is your job to make reading your CV as easy as possible. The old adage of ‘pretend you’re writing for an alien’ rings true here. I will add a ‘click here for article’ link to combat ‘mouse meandering’.
Ah hobbies, it’s a minefield isn’t it? You can’t put going to the pub and The Perfect CV advises you not to put any extreme sports in either – obviously if you like to bungee off tall buildings you can’t be trusted with a stapler…
Perhaps he has a point about the handbags but interestingly enough, some women actually remark on this with a smile while men always think I’m an idiot. The question is should you go as far as tailoring your CV for both sexes?
Harsh but true: internships, especially at fashion magazines, are mostly admin based, but, as Max Eggert suggests in the Perfect CV, it is a case of being more positive about what you did and writing it with your potential employers’ needs in mind.
Now this is where I would strongly disagree! Obviously the subject material didn’t do it for this editor but if you have been published anywhere it will shine out from the page.
(I might add mingling to my interests)
At last some good news! Writing about what you know and love is great advice, but I would say to be a journalist you need the ability to be interested in everything. Even local government finance.
Tags: editor, GBP, head, how to write a CV, journalist, local government finance, Max Eggert, Organising Managing Editor, particular editor, Too old to become a journalist?
The new year brings with it the startling reality that I have got less than a month left on my NCTJ course.
I don’t know which scares me more: having to pass my exams in three weeks; or having to find a job. Probably both in equal measure.
While trying to decipher the difference between a ‘revenue support grant’ and ‘relative needs formulae’, I am also overhauling my CV.
Writing a CV is really difficult, especially when you think about the 50 million other people chasing the same jobs as you.
Max Eggert’s book, The Perfect CV, is a good starting point and is only 168 pages. He advises on each stage and most importantly what not to put in, namely any kind of kitten pattern border.
But just what are the editors looking for?
In the name of research I have decided to send my CV to a cross-section of different industry people for their views and post their advice on this blog.
The good, the bad and even the ripped-to-shreds ugly will all be documented alongside my CV – the current version of which can be seen at this link.
It was nice knowing you.
Tags: cv, how to write a CV, journalist, Max Eggert, New Year's Day, Too old to become a journalist?
A female journalist who reported on women’s rights and had spoken out against the dowry system in southern Nepal was killed by a group of attackers. Full story…
Tags: International Herald Tribune, journalist, Nepal, nepalese journalist
Photoshoot and interviews with ‘the Renegades’ at the New York Times in New York magazine. Emily Nussbaum takes a look at the ‘cybergeeks’ at NYTimes.com. Are they saving the Gray Lady? Full story…
Tags: Emily Nussbaum, multimedia, New York, the New York Times, us
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