Journalism jobs
What are the skills of the online journalist?
The Web presents many challenges for news organizations – new consumption patterns, multi-platform distribution and a whole new business model. But it also presents new challenges for individual journalists because producing news online requires many new skills that had previously been absent from legacy media. There is still an emphasis on traditional reporting skills. In [...]
Average annual pay increase for online producers
13% to 14% from 2008 to 2009, according to the Inland Press Association’s Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey. That’s compared to an average 2.1 percent increase for the rest of the newspaper industry during the same period.
Why core journalistic skills are crucial
I think the thing that you look for in journalists is the same as I’ts always been. You look for a sense of curiosity, an appetite to understand about the world and a passion to communicate it. Now of course in order to be able to do those things in the future there’s a wider [...]