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Since becoming the Detroit Free Press' recruiter in 1990, my work and the journalism industry have changed in unexpected ways. The transformation is rapid. One benefit is that I now learn from and help other Gannett recruiters. NewsRecruiter.com is a hub site that helps keep everything organized. It tells you what I am up to, it links to my latest work and it is a test site for new projects. My best ideas have always come from you, so please write.
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• Mondays: Cuppa Joe  • Tuesdays: News Job Café • Wednesdays: J-Schools • Thursdays: Job Hacks • Fridays: Apply With Care This is a test |
Diversity in the Digital Age This is my last post from Journalism That Matters -- Silicon Valley. The format of the conference, held at Yahoo! and Sunnyvale's Domain Hotel, allowed each participant to choose from an array of workshops that were determined by the participants -- but not until we got My intention was to learn about the future of journalism (and my career) and to see what skills I will be recruiting for in the very near future. I deliberately spent more time that I normally do with programmers and Web site architects and came to understand how important it will be for journalists to open up our thinking and our newsrooms to people who can help us create in so many ways. I sat in on a session about mapping and other digital imagery, the open-source content management system Drupal and a lively session on mapping and gaming where people called up favorite sites on their laptops and then passed them around the circle. But all was not new to me. For the last schedules slot of the day, I chose "Missing Voice: Ensuring diversity of voice in a multimedia world." The session was called by Teresa Puente of Columbia College in Chicago. She led it with her faculty colleague, Suzanne McBride. Puente's notes on the session are here. So, a small but growing group started kicking around diversity and media. Who has more to gain, communities of color, or the mainstream media? Are the communities, out of frustration, finding their own voices anyway through ethnic media? Can big media and growing communities collaborate in ways that benefit both? What role do citizen journalists play? Or schools? It was an interesting exercise, but, really, what can a small group of people do in an hour or so? We had carved out w-a-a-a-y too big a subject for ourselves. And then, one person quietly joined the circle. She was Michelle Ferrier, digital content architect, columnist and a managing editor at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Her paycheck comes from a big-media company. Everyday citizens join her in writing for the online community MyTopiaCafe.com. We had sat across from each other at dinner the night before and, while I marveled at how neatly the different parts of her job fit together, it didn't hit me right away that she held one of the big answers I was looking for. She was using her position in the newsroom to empower all kinds of communities in the Daytona Beach area -- and she was working with students at a consortium of four area college and universities to help students get online. She said that when she wears her columnist hat, she tries to be "colorless" -- that is, she doesn't always write about her experiences as an African-American, but more often relates univeral experiences that she finds more universal like motherhood, commuting or getting by on our emerging multimedia world. Ferrier personified one of the week's big lessons for me. We can travel thousands of miles and meet with hundreds of people to try to discern our path. Or, we can work with the journalism and technology close at hand and make a difference. One person can make a difference. In Daytona Beach, I could see, one person does. Ferrier's bio contains a favorite saying that would have seemed corny to me if I had read it before I met her. It is "Bloom where you're planted; Be the change you want to see in the world." Add comment (0) |
 The Best of Ask the Recruiter: Thousands of journalists Poynter Online looking for answers to career questions. How do you get ahead? What should you ask in an interview? Or insist on in a salary negotiation? What is the future for news media? The best have gone into this book. Each chapter contains an essay by a guest recruiter or journalist with experience in newspapers, TV, radio, online or academia. So, through the questions of your inquisitive peers, get a recruiter's eye view of managing your career. >Buy it
 Breaking In is the insider's guide to landing — and acing — your newspaper internship. These are your strategies for applying, interviewing, succeeding and then using your newspaper internship to launch your career. This book is based on the www.JobsPage.com Web site, which Detroit Free Press Recruiting and Development Editor Joe Grimm created as a strategy guide to newspaper careers. Twenty news recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed to the book. >Buy it
 Bringing the News Century-old postcards celebrate newsies in photographs and artwork, in groups or singly, black and white or color. The newsboys -- and girls, as well as a few adults -- are always portrayed in hard-knock ways. Feet and calves are sometimes bare. Patches cling to elbows and knees. They cover their heads with stocking caps or the floppy hats we still know as "newsboys." If there is inside you a scrappy, survive-by-your-wits newsie, you'll enjoy this collection of cards and carriers bringing news in old-fashioned ways. (Twenty-five images.) >Buy it
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