So You Want to Work in the Media Biz, pt. 2
Earlier this week, I posted a blog on how best to prepare yourself for the new world of journalism. The tips included there encouraged would-be digital journalists to make themselves into multimedia producers, able to offer text, photos and video with every story, as well as the ability to put those stories on the Web.
That’s the same lesson recent graduates of Columbia’s J-School - arguably the country’s best- also have learned, according to Michael Ventura in the Village Voice.
These fresh-faced journos are ready to go out and set the world on fire with their new skills, Ventura reports. These students’ optimism about journalism flies in the face of today’s conventional and downtrodden wisdom about the trade. As Malia Politzer tells Ventura: “If you look at it differently, it’s an exciting time in journalism. People are trying to come up with solutions to find out what the future is going to be.”
Miss Politzer - and that almost spells Pulitzer -is my kind of crazy: I’m optimistic,” she says. “I might be crazy, but I’m optimistic.”
have you ever been fired badly? commented:
Hi there,
I am doing what all radio DJ's claim they want to do....Write a book about how badly people get fired in broadcasting.
I'm an old radio DJ/PD myself who has ben fired soooo much I think I've actually gotten good at it.
Well I've decided to tell my stories and at the same time help you share yours too. Presently I have over 83 pages of the book written and still need your help to push it past the 150 mark.
Please write me and tell me your stories about how you (or someone you know) were fired badly - how management treated you unfairly - and basically how they mismanaged the situation and were total jerks, about it.
Sadly - the jerkier the better!
Don't worry I worked in the industry for 20 years and realize this could get someone blackballed - no names, no call letters, and no locations will ever be revealed in my book - I'm not looking for a tell at book that seek revenge on those who wronged you. But, I am talking about a book filled with so many stories that it does cry out for employment change within our industry.
Keep in mind we're not talking about losing your job and now you can't pay the bills for your three kids and ailing mother living with you or you worked hard and didn't get the job you wanted.
We're talking about wifes being sent home to go fire their husbands...
Afternoon jocks being fired because they wouldn't do the PD's son's homework...
And guys moving 1500 miles to take a job only to be fired a week later because he wore a blue shirt to work that day!
These are all real stories....what's yours?
send me an e-mail with your story to sullivanseanlynn@aol.com.
And since you are writing because you lost your job, please keep in mind that for every job I lost, when I look back - it always turned out to have been a good thing in the end.
LOL - In fact now I have time to write a book - LOL
Try and relish in the fact that it wasn't you; it was those who you were working for - and that's what I want people to understand as unemployment reaches 10%.
Please help! - send me your stories at sullivanseanlynn@aol.com
Also feel free to copy this post and send it to your friends so they can tell their stories too.
And for those who have sent me your stories already, THANK YOU! I am about half way through writing it thanks to your contributions.