By Eric Deggans, NPR critic at large and Knight Professor of Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington and Lee University
(i put this as meme cuz it just isnt as serious as most inquiries on here)
Hey yall. In my final year of j-school and the creeping graduation has me more scared then ever that my future will amount to nothing. Common feeling, who doesn’t know it? But I’ve been heavily fixated on “finding a beat”. That specific niche that I can specialize in. Personally, I’ve always been in it for the writing. Doesn’t matter too much to me what it’s about so long as I care about it, and I’m engaged. My issue is that this is never just fitting under one umbrella, (politics, arts and culture, etc). I want to ask for your experience picking out a beat. Also, if you’re a hard ass please just scroll by. I havent been on reddit long but I’ve had enough of neckbeards picking apart my drunken posts. Valid criticism for whatever the hell is welcome, but if you’re here to get your rocks off by feeling like top shit in a reddit comment section then take your attention to Fox News comment sections. Cheers!
Excluding social media rumors, what will the process be for notifying the world of the passing of the President of the United States? Any current President, thinking more on the technical side, and what occurs before the Vice President takes the Oath of office.
Every national news organization and network has the B-roll and scripts ready to go, as they would for just about anyone of that importance.
Will it be something embargoed for a bit until a formal press conference is held by the next in line? A family member? A staffer? I have the framework of an idea from Walter Cronkite announcing JFK’s death and in The Newsroom announcing the death of Bin Laden, and BBC’s protocol for announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth. But those were quite a different times and circumstances.
I’m graduating soon, so I’ve been applying for jobs as much as I can regardless of whether they’re entry level or not.
But I feel like I’m struggling with my cover letters. A lot of the positions I’m applying for are owned by the same company’s (Sinclair or Nexstar) and I’m not sure if I should write a cover letter for why I want to work for that company, why I want to work in that position, make it about location, aspirations, etc.
I’m also not sure which cover letter format I should be using either.
Any tips with this?
I don't need the full wire (the 23rd-Ld-Writethru is a bit more granular than needed at home), but I enjoyed the AP providing national, political and international feeds (even though the art was for the wrong story with shocking frequency).
A search turned up paid third-party AI-driven options, and that's not something I'm going to even look into for self-evident reasons. There's also a GitHub project that claims to do the job hourly, but the links provided via the readme, though updated in the past hour, are all 55-byte XMLs.
After being used to the wire, even as a civilian, I don't want to see whatever layout they've chosen to go with for section pages; I just want a list of the latest stories as RSS feeds are wont to do.
I ask, because if you go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=MzuxEl4txhXnwsXU&t=214 for instance, which shows an interview on CNBC Television between Squawk Box cohosts Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen and their chosen guest, Jeremy Grantham of GMO Asset Management, the timestamped segment I have highlighted indicates, at least according to Joe Kernen, that Jeremy Grantham was invited onto the programme by Andrew.
If we focus on the financial TV news networks specifically, who typically invites the guests onto their programmes, the on-air talent or the behind-the-scenes news desk personnel?
Hi everyone,
I am a reporter for a group of print newspapers.
I am in line to take up the mantle of editor for these papers sometime next year.
The discussions haven’t gone much further than ‘You have the job’ yet. So, before I begin bargaining on behalf of my own self worth, I’m wondering if anyone in similar roles can help me create a frame of reference for compensation.
For what it’s worth, we produce three weekly print publications in addition to managing a website (obviously). I have a bachelor’s in journalism from a reputable program and will have roughly three years of experience under my belt once the transition takes place. I currently make $20/hour.
Thanks in advance for anyone that is able to chime in.
I love animals (I’m a vegan) - but ugh can’t do stuff speaking for them. Are there places yalll work at that allow u to do stuff like that
Thoughts on this?