JOB ALERT: The Los... | FacebookSign UpFacebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. JOB ALERT: The Los Angeles Times is hiring for staff writers covering immigration and immigrant communities in Southern California The Los Angeles Times is seeking two energetic reporters to cover immigration and immigrant communities. Of particular interest are the growing Vietnamese, Korean and Muslim communities in California and elsewhere in the West. The newspaper is looking for reporters who can speak and read Vietnamese, Korean or Arabic but is willing to consider applicants who have extensive experience covering those groups. Applicants should have at least five years of professional reporting experience. We need news people with an ability to break news and write original features. Successful candidates ... Continue reading →
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EXCELLENT CAREER ADVICE: ‘GET ON A ROCKET SHIP’ So I sat down with Eric Schmidt, who had just become the CEO, and I showed him the spread sheet and I said, this job meets none of my criteria. He put his hand on my spreadsheet and he looked at me and said, Don’t be an idiot. Excellent career advice. And then he said, Get on a rocket ship. When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves. And when companies aren’t growing quickly or their missions don’t matter as much, that’s when stagnation and politics come in. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. About six and ... Continue reading →
All the President's Men: A great scene that's representative of the newsroom power structure. If you watch the movie, there's a newsroom meeting that says it all. Trust me, you'll recognize it. Journalists are a protective bunch, especially when it comes to their newsroom meetings. The invite lists typically enforce the professional hierarchy they not-so-secretly crave. My favorite morning news meeting remains the one I attended in the early 80s at Newsweek. At 10 am (news was a civilized profession back then), talented editors who had risen to proud gatekeepers reveled in debating and deciding what the magazine’s then three million subscribers should know every week. The best afternoon show was lorded over by Abe Rosenthal, the legendary New York Times editor. Thirty years later, ... Continue reading →
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Katharine Zaleski leaves Washington Post by Andrew Beaujon Published May 23, 2012 1:50 pm Katharine Zaleski, The Washington Post’s executive director of digital news. She joined the newspaper in 2009, leaving The Huffington Post. Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli announced her departure to staff today. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading →
The Huffington Post Media Group announces today that HPMG News has topped the CNN Network to become the #2 site in the General News category according to the latest April 2012 comScore data. HPMG News had 59.4 million unique visitors in April, topping CNN Network by 2 million unique visitors. This is the first month that HPMG News has claimed the #2 spot. HuffPost readers made more than 6 million comments in April alone, as well as over 150 million comments to date.* The comScore metrics showing that HPMG News became the #2 General News site for April 2012 were released on the 7-year anniversary of The Huffington Post's initial launch. The Huffington Post went live on May 9, 2005.Sources: comScore Media Metrix, April 2012; ... Continue reading →
