Monday, March 20, 2006
A hiring editor tells new graduates: Look to the Web
Anthony Moor, associate managing editor/online at the Orlando Sentinel, and editor of OrlandoSentinel.com, thinks young journalists need to carefully consider working on the Web:
After a long freeze brought about by the dot-com crash and 9/11, Web editors are hiring and Web operations are expanding again. Safa Rashtchy, a senior research analyst at the securities firm Piper Jaffray, recently predicted that online advertising will reach its tipping point in mid-2006. That's prompting news organizations to realign their resources to focus more on Web journalism.
Moor lists several suggestions for success in landing a job in online journalism:
- Have good news judgment
- Be Internet literate
- Know of HTML
- Be able to think in multimedia
- Have experience writing a blog
Hmm, kinda sounds like MCOM 407 doesn't it?
Similar thoughts from the recent College Media Advisers conference in New York:
- This is a wonderful time, a golden time, a fantastic time for media careers.
- Single media journalists are a thing of the past.
- Two to three years in the on-line/multi-media world is a significant track record and gets you to places unimaginable in traditional media.
- Minimum skill set for top jobs: Writing; Reporting; Interviewing; Ability to collect audio, video, and photos; Ability to edit audio, video and photos; Ability to upload to web audio, video and photos
