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Topic: Please help me!!
| Author | Message |
| brooklynbaby | Posted – 3/16/2008 4:16:15 PM | show profile I want to work in broadcast journalism, but I'm very unsure what to do now that I've graduated. I'd like to be a reporter, but I'm not a diva. I just love TV and I love telling stories. I had planned on going to law school in hopes of becoming a legal analyst (and assuring myself a lucrative plan-b), but now I've decided that's too much time and money to end up with no experience. I want a job as a reporter. I also want to relocate. Here's what I have- ~2 bachelor's degrees, a good gpa, honors standing, academic awards, and all that good stuff. ~A good bit of college tv experience, on-air and behind the camera, writing, control room experience, making packages, editing, etc. ~radio experience, working as a dj ~an internship with Fox News Channel Here's what I don't have- ~a journalism degree (mine are in international studies and theater) ~a huge amount of time to search for jobs (I work full time at a law firm) ~any idea what to do Please help me because I want to be a part of this industry so badly! |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 3/16/2008 5:40:32 PM | show profile Where are you located? |
| brooklynbaby | Posted – 3/16/2008 5:53:52 PM | show profile Mississippi. |
| mkelly | Posted – 3/17/2008 11:24:09 AM | show profile Do they really not teach job-hunting skills at all in college these days? Good christ. 1. Call your school's career services office and ask for help. 2. Call your favorite journalism professor and ask for help. 3. Send a demo tape to the news director of every small TV station in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. 4. Prepare to move. 5. Above all, find some discreet place on your body and tattoo: 'I will NEVER go to law school!!!' on it. Examine this part of your body daily. You'll be fine. Now get to work. |
| InsomniacNOT | Posted – 3/17/2008 1:31:16 PM | show profile Start your own video show or vlog. I read an article recently on how newspaper editros were saying they wouldn't hire anyone without a blog. And I would imagine there are plenty of people in T who feel the same way. Honestly in this day and age if you love television and story-telling you, there's nothing stopping you from just doing it. |
| brooklynbaby | Posted – 3/17/2008 2:07:28 PM | show profile Thanks so much! And they might actually teach job-hunting skills at my school, but I wasn't a journalism major, so I missed out on that- I think the journalism majors definitely have a leg up, especially in that department. |
| aj | Posted – 3/17/2008 2:11:21 PM | show profile Get an unpaid internship And see if you really like TV news. It's the best hands on experience you'll ever get. You'll have to work nights to supplement your day job, or work the late shift at the station. But you'll know in a few weeks if it's for you. |
