Some job sites and info

Hi, folks, a few good sites for job info, plus a few sites to make you think (I hope):

Some good links for jobs:

• University of California at Berkeley journalism jobs and internships page
• Journalismjobs.com
• Georgia Press Association (for jobs, look under GPA Classifieds)
• National Diversity Newspaper Job Bank
• Mediabistro.com
• Editor and Publisher
• Careers in Newspapers
• Diversity Links
• Journalism jobs page
• TV jobs
• More TV jobs
• PR jobs
• PR job info
• Resume site
  

Links with journalism info

• Romenesko
• Powerreporting.org
• Columbia Journalism Review
• American Journalism Review
• Online Journalism Review
• Technorati (blog search site)
• Newsthinking
• PR news site
• TV news site

Web journalism

• Blogging resource page (it’s for Michigan bloggers, but it applies to everyone)
• Becoming a freelance blog writer
• Become a journalist/entrpreneur
• More journo-preneurs
• Buzz Machine
• How to do RSS feeds

Getting info on employers

• Non-profit info (free registration required)
• You can find info on specific publicly traded companies by going to Galileo and clicking on Company and Industry info
• And don’t forget Google

Internships

Hi, folks, I ran into Dr. Barthlow today, and he told me he has a lot of people wanting interns in the fall semester. I know most of you are focused on graduating as soon as possible, but having an internship is a great stepping stone to a job. Plus, there’s not as much competition in the fall for a lot of these internships.

Think about it. At least go by and talk to Dr. Barthlow about what’s available. He told me he’s going to be around on Thursday, and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if you emailed him and made an appointment. If you need a reference, let me know.

Some writing tips

Here’s a nice post with lots of writing tips from Amy Gahran, who blogs about new media and journalism at poynter.org and at her blog, contentious.com. These are taken from a presentation she did at the Blogher conference. Blogher is a gathering place for women bloggers. Here’s a wiki she set up with some exercises, too. Remind you of the Revising Prose techniques we talked about earlier in the semester?

Prize-winning features

Let’s look at some prize-winning features today:

• The Pulitzers
• Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

A few more thoughts on story ideas

Let’s talk some more about coming up with and refining story ideas. This little discussion on a sports journalist bulletin board shows how it’s always a problem. How about some new media ways to come up with ideas?

• Digg
• Google alerts
• Facebook
• Twitter
• RSS feeds
• Technorati, a place to search blogs

Here’s a few story ideas for free, from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies here at GSU. Notice they also have an experts guide, something most universities have these days, since their PR folks are eager for you to quote their professors. Here’s a similar story idea site from Ohio State. There’s nothing wrong with using the suggestions of PR people to help you do stories, but you want to be aware that as a journalist, it’s your responsibility to check out all the facts and be sure that you’re getting as many different perspectives on the story as possible, not just the one offered by the PR folks.

story idea

local Atlanta resident Brian Craig loves the satisfaction of being a lawyer, but doesn’t like the reputation.  He has a few ideas to change how lawyers are perceived through non-profit and pro-bono work.

Batman story idea

With the new movie coming out there is a lot of excitment from fans. IMAX all over the country is sold out for the opening, and several theatres are sold out as well. A possible story would could highlight this as well as talk to some of the fans who are going to the debut at midnight.

 

I myself am going to a midnight showing and I know that one of the people I going with is going in costume (die hard fan) so it will be an interesting night.

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