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Mediatwits #162: Hot Jobs Prospects In Digital Media
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:30:28
Publish Date: 2015-05-28 22:07:24
Description: It’s graduation time across the country, and journalism and communications grads are getting ready to start their careers. Or are they? We all know that job prospects for traditional print jobs isn’t great. You don’t need us to remind you how poorly print has been doing in the past couple of years. But there are still opportunities when you flip the script to digital media. Last year, Pew Research found that 468 large and small digital news outfits were hiring 5,000 editorial people. Over the last year, we’ve seen the ascendency of Vice, BuzzFeed, and Vox. And all those sites need people to write for them - at least until the robots take over. The media industry has changed so much that several schools have created courses around managing it, with specialized MBAs becoming popular for media management. So what’s the career path for young journalists now? And is there a dangerous potential for digital consolidation as sites such as Vox swallow up Re/code -- and both could be swallowed by Comcast? Samantha Harrington, a recent from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be joining us, as we get career advice for young journalists from Katy Culver, assistant professor of journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison and EducationShift’s Education Curator; Matt Thompson, deputy editor The Atlantic; and John Swansburg, Slate's Deputy Editor. We’ll also be joined by regular guest Andrew Lih, at American University with MediaShift’s Mark Glaser hosting and Jefferson Yen producing.
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