I'm obviously biased, but editors at small schools/newspapers often have to be well-rounded, resourceful and willing to take the initiative to make things happen.
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Entry-level: Benjamin Brown
Entry-level is a new series profiling those who are working their first media jobs out of college. Want to be featured? Send an e-mail to d.ceceliamartinez gmail com with a photo and answers to the questions below. Name: Benjamin Brown (@RedLeader656) Location: Albany, NY Gig: Founder and CEO, New Hand Media Education: The College of Saint Rose, 2009 Length of job search: My job search lasted months. During school, I was working for Apple Inc. as a computer tech at one of their retail stores. It was a great job and I was paid well, but there was so much that I felt I was missing. So, making one of the most important decisions of my life, I decided to quit my job and relocate to Charlotte, NC. It was there that I got a taste of the real world and how bad the economy actually is. I spent...
What’s in a (college newspaper) name?
The editors over at The Chronicle — the College of Saint Rose student newspaper where I served as a staff writer and Executive Editor for a few years — are currently considering a name change to coincide with changes being made to the Saint Rose Communications Department. Deciding on a name for anything is usually a difficult task. Whether it’s your first-born or even just your fantasy football team, it’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of options. Names are so intrinsically tied to identity. Choose the wrong one, and it invokes all the wrong connotations for your product/publication/child. (Just think about the recent iPad debacle). Names for publications generally encompass two things: the audience, and the purpose. For newspapers, the audience aspect is usually location-based. The purpose portion, however, require some self-analysis. What kind of publication do you want to produce? Do you plan to chronicle...
Need Direction?
My friend/classmate/protege Kali Zigrino wrote today about her plans to apply for an internship for her final semester at college. Like many other journalism majors, she is concerned about her future job prospects in the industry. She writes: While I know I want to be a journalist; that is a relative term. I’m not sure if I want to write for magazine, newspaper, alternative press, blog, or just chalk my college education up as a loss and go work with my mother. She goes on to say that one goal of her internship is to gain a more specific direction, but I don’t think that a lack of specific direction is necessarily a negative. Journalists these days have to be more versatile than ever and be willing to take any job that comes along – regardless of it’s print, web, journalism, or technical writing. Maybe I’m biased, but I think that...
The Chronicle Redesign of ’09
Inspired by modern, magazine-style layouts of other college newspapers, the redesign got rid of the grid and incorporated bolder fonts, the use of graphics, and a more generous utilization of color.
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