Online journalism jobs
My expertise is in content analysis, and as a researcher, I love to address assumptions and tackle questions plaguing the field. One current controversy is related to what skills we should be teaching our students. There is controversy related to whether we should teach them software such as Dreamweaver or Flash. To address such controversy, I collected six months (January-June) of data from JournalismJobs.com Online Media job postings. I plan to analyze the data this fall.
Based on my observations, a significant portion of the job postings were not from news organizations, but rather from other organizations such as About.com, Grandparents.com, and AARP. If you teach online media, I would encourage your students to peruse these job listings to inform themselves that the other opportunities out there besides working for a traditional news organization because it is not always news organizations that producing great journalism.
Ryan Thornburg, a blogger and academic, has conducted survey research on skills desired by North Carolina newspapers. He found that working under pressure and news judgment were considered the most important skills of young journalists.
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