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Find your next media job on Twitter - follow @media_pros to see hot jobs when they post.
This media jobs project is called Media Professionals and is something I have been tinkering with off and on for a couple of years. Now is the time to take this jobs feed to Twitter and Plaxo where more journalism job seekers are going these days.
Media Pros is an RSS feed, a Group on Plaxo and a Twittter feed
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As a nation that prepares to celebrates independence and summer fun tomorrow it has to be said not many U.S. journalists will be thinking about such lofty ideals. For more than few of them independence will mean liberation from their newspaper jobs, and quite possibly journalism as well.
I have been trying to keeps tabs on the journalism layoff phenom here in the States where newsroom leaders are struggling to reorganize their operations around the realities of consumer demand for news and the methods they will use to match their audiences.
Mostly this has taken the form of lopping off large sections of the editorial staff. Many other bloggers are saying that this is not leadership at all, but rather butchering.
I have been tracking these stories on my del.icio.us account for probably 18 months now and at the bottom of this post is the list of the last 30 items in that feed. (Subscribe to the RSS feed)
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Sometimes the hardest pictures a newspaper journalist makes are the ones they take of themselves during hard times. San Jose Mercury News designer Martin Gee has posted a photo documentary of the effects of several rounds of layoffs and buyouts in his California newsroom. You can feel his heart breaking in captions as he recalls former colleagues and the spirit they brought to the newsroom.
Gee writes:
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Show me don’t tell me.
Here are some more graphics that dramatically show where the steep cuts and sudden changes in U.S. newspaper are being made to the product.
Continue reading ‘Pew study illustrates effects of mass layoffs at U.S. newspapers’
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
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