Being a journalist is easy. Just watch how cable news programs do it. Spruik dead people a lot, develop ‘ethics’ and then find a hilarious hook for every story.
Journalism students
Vanity Fair tortures intern with cable news hell
Thomas Kaplan is Vanity Fair’s summer intern. Instead of tackling the usual work-experience tasks of filing and coffee-making, he has been given a special brief: watch 24-hour cable news channels for four days straight. Oh, and they’re broadcasting the whole thing live.
Student journos head to Iraq
Three Alaskan journalism students are heading to Iraq to become embedded journalists. Frighteningly, this means the University of Alaska is about have more journalists in Iraq than any major US paper.
The lost generation of journalists
Media definition of “success” in 2009: employment. That’s right, if you have a job in an industry that has no clear future, you’re doing well.
Fairfax traineeships: that’s fine, but what about the rest of us?
Applications for Fairfax traineeships opened over the weekend, confirming reports that the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will each be halving their respective trainee intakes from around eight per year to four – and that half of those would be fresh from high school, boasting nothing more than a year 12 certificate.
