Is the media hiring, thriving or dying? All three @Twitter
Flagged up by Deborah Potter on her Advancing the Story blog, @themediaishirin’ – a new Twitter channel for 140 character CVs, job applications and offers of work. It’s from the same group behind...
View ArticleTrials of a redundant journalist: Don’t forget the contacts
Don’t forget the contacts… and hopefully they won’t forget you. As soon as I knew I was jobless, I started to let friends, family and acquaintances know of my new situation – and my availability to do...
View ArticleTrials of a redundant journalist: 11 days teach me that I sound like a fat...
A round-up of posts from this week’s activity. Redundant Journalist, resident FleetStreetBlues blogger, gets her first rejection letter, learns that she sounds ‘larger’ on the phone, and that she’s a...
View ArticleComment: Without traineeships going to trainees, how can we get experience?
Ross Davies is a freelance journalist. His work includes bar and pub reviews for viewbirmingham.co.uk and album/gig reviews for thedetour.co.uk, a website dedicated to current music, fashion and art....
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Will your next journalism job application be via LinkedIn’s new button?
LinkedIn has launched an ‘apply with LinkedIn’ button allowing companies to recruit using the social network. Job seekers can then use the button to submit an application and are able to see other...
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