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By Michelle V. Rafter on November 9, 2011
Want to feel inspired about what you do? Spend a few minutes with We are Journalists, a Tumblr site for journalists about journalists. According to Romenesko, a St. Petersburg Times reporter patterned it after the Occupy Wall Street movement’s We Are the 99 Percent Tumblr site. My favorite line: “Don’t call me ‘the Media.’” How [...]
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By Michelle V. Rafter on June 6, 2011
Working for free and pulling all nighters were just two of the stupid things I did working on my college newspaper that paid off later in my career.
Posted in Careers | Tagged journalism careers, Los Angeles Loyolan student newspaper, reasons to go to journalism school, working on a college newspaper |
By Michelle V. Rafter on February 16, 2009
High school girls still dream of being Rory Gilmore, the fictional daughter in The Gilmore Girls TV show who headed straight from a Yale journalism degree to a job covering Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. That’s what I discovered at career day at my old high school last week. More than 80 girls from St. Mary’s [...]
Posted in Careers, Economy, Freelancing, Magazines, Media Business, Newspapers, Online news, Writing | Tagged advice for students studying journalism, Gilmore Girls, how to become a reporter, journalism careers, Journalism Jobs, journalism school |