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Topic: Fact-checking as a full time career?
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| MLA_Chick85 | Posted – 2/15/2008 12:05:29 PM | show profile | email poster I was reading about the fact-checking classes mediabistro.com is offering. I have fact-checked before for publications, but as an intern or for school/ in-house magazines and newsletters. I don't think this qualifies as experience. So I was thinking of maybe taking one of the classes to help find work in this field ( I'm a journalism graduated with no job, like most of us at this forum). Has anyone here ever taken a mediabistro.com course and gotten a job from it. Or are these courses preying on our desperation for employment just to take our money and not teach us anything on getting a job in the subject the class is on? Any information is greatly appreciated! |
| a.s. | Posted – 2/20/2008 7:32:34 PM | show profile I can't speak directly to the mb fact checking class, but I would say that if you have experience fact checking then you have experience fact checking, regardless of your intern title. Have you tried to get FC jobs and been rejected? If so, perhaps adding a little heft to your resume wouldn't hurt. But if you haven't put yourself out there too much yet I would say work with what you've got. It sounds like you have at experience with at least three different pubs, so play that up. |
