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Hyperlocal news: lots of work and little money
Gaz Corfield is a one-time student newspaper editor, founder and editor of The West Londoner local news website, and is now a social media specialist working in London. He is passionate about journalism (despite having sold out!) but just can’t see how it
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Get a journo job: start your own paper
Would you ever consider setting up your own local paper, in an effort to fill the void for regional news left by larger retreating news organisations? Relevant links: The Saddleworth Independent Saddleworth Independent founder: ‘Sacking reporters is not a
2. February, 2012
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Why a class action lawsuit against unpaid internships in the US is overdue
You may or may not have seen the news yesterday that a former intern at Harper’s Bazaar is suing Hearst Co. for unpaid work during her unpaid internships, which violated state and federal labor laws. We’ve gone over unpaid internships
29. January, 2012
Digital and online, Entrepreneurship, Industries, Newspaper, Routes into journalism
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Journalism and capitalism
This month’s carnival of journalism topic comes from Michael Rosenblum, who asks: “Can a good journalist also be a good capitalist?” Journalists aren’t well paid, on the whole. As someone not so far away from entering the job market, it’s
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CUNY’s new MA Entrepreneurial Journalism course is the opposite of what we need
The City University of New York has recently announced it will run a new MA course at its Graduate School of Journalism: Entrepreneurial Journalism. I have some issues with this, primarily: could there be anything less entrepreneurial than spending thousands
2. December, 2011
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The US government hates your Tumblr (journalism too)
Have you heard of the Stop Online Piracy Act? If you have, this is old news and hopefully you’re as pissed as me. If you haven’t, well prepare yourself – because it is an over-the-top attempt at curbing online piracy
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n0tice: the Guardian’s new take on hyperlocal community
The Guardian Media Group is now slowly releasing its new community noticeboard platform, n0tice.com, into the public sphere. It’s still currently an invite only affair, but we’ve been taking a look around, and even caught up with the people behind
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The power of a personal project: Wannabe Hacks meets Gaby Dunn of 100 Interviews
When Gaby Dunn graduated from journalism school with no jobs going, she didn’t just give up. She set herself a project. She decided she would interview 100 people in the space of a year and post the interviews, for free,
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It’s not all doom and gloom: the “dream job” and graduate prospects
The last couple of weeks have been quite a sobering time at Wannabe Hacks. We’ve written a lot about exploitation and internships, and how to keep motivated in the grey world of unemployment. Outside of Hacks, I ran for the
20. October, 2011
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The era of friends in low places: the Jobseeker gets sentimental
Job seeking has some bleak moments. When I started blogging in early September I wasn’t so much worried about the content I’d produce for you as someone seeking a job, but what I would call myself after I got a
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AdamWestbrook on Hyperlocal news: lots of work and little money
On top of the feedback already here, your other problem is focusing on just one revenue stream and a poor...mairigordon14 on Get a journo job: start your own paper
I think the editor is right to say, start with print. Having worked at a couple local papers one thing...
