That’s what Mme. Paquin did. What was supposed to be 20 hours a week picking up some extra dough on some paper’s copy desk turned into a migraine-inducing trainwreck. She stuck it out for most of a year, which sounds…
Category: Job talk
Tryouts on trial
A new thread at Testy Copy Editors starts out like this: A well-respected major daily has asked me come in for a weeklong copy editing tryout. My current experience at a wire service is helpful, but it’s a lot different…
Hope you like your job
… because there’s not going to be much hiring next year, E&P reports. And I just love this part: Companies “see some improving advertising trends right now,” and that keeps them from continuing to downsize, said Kevin Gruneich, newspaper analyst…
Buff up your resume …
Hiring might pick up next year: “A labor shortage is being masked by the recession. When things pick up, you will see expansions of staffs, and people who are ready to move will make a move,” says Joe Grimm, a…
On being retentive
Nicole links to this Poynter article that wonders what newspapers must do to keep their best people. They ask us time and gain and we tell them time and again — pay us better and we’ll stick around — but…
Eight who need jobs
… inspire 8goodpeople.com. Correction: make that seven — one just got a job.
Good news
… For Bill Walsh, soon to be the new National Desk copy chief at the Washington Post. Bill was one of the first newsies I met online and one of the people who inspired me to instigate online shenanigans. (I’m…
Sign o’ the times
Editor & Publisher is going from weekly to monthly You need look no further than my job links pages to know why: the only reason anybody bought E&P was for the help-wanted ads, which are conspicuously available all sorts of…
Career advice
This is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent to a colleague who was wondering about job opportunities in certain papers. If you get called for an interview, check out the ages of the people who work there… if there…