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You got questions? We'll get answers!

Why don't we get this learning ball rolling? If you're like me - the training provided by your newsroom is just a starting point. Learning is not something your boss can do for you - you must go out and get it yourself. I'd like to start another category for this blog - a Q and A section. Any time you have a question e-mail me and I'll find the best person to answer and I'll post it in the Q and A section. What sorts of questions can you ask? Why anything you want! Ask what kind of skills you need to become a daily reporter at the Boston Globe, ask how you should give your boss notice, or ask what you should wear to an interview. Ask those and more! When I receive the questions - I'll find someone who can answer - and I'll post the Q and A - and I'll even e-mail you the link to the blog posting! I'll even try to get a few responses from big names in the biz. To start it off - I'm going to ask my newspaper's editor what the most important skills are for a young journalist to start obtaining. Be sure to send me some questions - click >>> e-mail me!
Published Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:13 PM by SonyaSmith
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# re: You got questions? We'll get answers!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:33 PM by rthomson
I am a recent j grad and I've just been offered my firstjob. I've been on several interiews and it's taken me 3 months to actually receive an offer. The biggest challenge I've faces is that I think I do well in my interviews, but desptite my 2 internships and some freelance experience, I find it extremely difficult to convince editors to take a chance on a recent college grad. The same excuse for getting a job seems the same: "We really liked you, but we gave the position to a candidate who had a few more years' expereience." You need a job to get experience and experience to get a job. During college I took every opportunity I could to get experience to set myself apart from my peers. But after every rejection, I started questioning myself, "Was what I accomplished in college enough?"
So...does anyone have any advice out there on how to convince and editor that although you're a young journalist, it doesn't mean you have ANY experience?

# re: You got questions? We'll get answers!

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:14 PM by Melody Jameson
As a working print journalist, supplying articles to a community newspaper, I am confronted with a new situation.  I cover a commnity of some 9,000 residents and its governing board, itself governed by state statute. In December, I wrote a story which, while factual, did not please board directors due to the information it made public. Since this time, I have been subjected to verbal abuse and now am being harassed by a small group apparently determined to end my coverage of their questionable governance. This harassment has reached the level of violation of state law, involving the taping and publication (public distribution)of private telephone conversation without express consent of the parties to the conversation, action forbidded by law in Florida and fully actionable both criminally and civilly.  Has anyone else dealt with this type of abuse?  How? Any cousnel?          
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