80 articles
Search for freelance copywriter rates, and you'll find a range that goes from $0.05 a word to $500 an hour. Both numbers represent working professionals with real clients. Little bit of a scary range, isn't…
Mediabistro Team
The most common mistake in content writer interviews is treating the portfolio like a test. It isn't. A portfolio shows you what someone produced when they had unlimited time, picked their best work, and chose…
Mediabistro Team
Graphic design is one of the few creative roles where hiring managers regularly confuse aesthetic preference with candidate evaluation. The portfolio review goes well, the work looks polished, the offer goes out. Three months later,…
Mediabistro Team
The role is harder to fill than most hiring managers expect. Here's what a great news producer actually looks like, what they cost, and how to find one.
Miles Jennings
The rules of the workplace have changed — again. Here's what HR professionals and hiring managers need to know to stay ahead of the curve, keep great employees, and build a culture people actually want to be part of.
Bizzy Coy
Most job postings spend so much time listing demands that they forget to sell the role. One small perspective shift — writing for the candidate, not just about your company — changes everything.
Bizzy Coy
Looking to hire better writers? You're not alone. Ad agencies, publishing houses, media outlets, PR firms, startups and nonprofits are hiring more writers than ever — copywriters, content creators, social media managers, journalists… the list…
Bizzy Coy
Employer branding has made its way into a lot of news stories these days - brands screwing it up—big time. United Airlines injured a passenger as they dragged him off a plane. Uber was racked…
Bizzy Coy
Have you ever posted a job listing online and gotten absolutely no qualified candidates? It happened to Allan Ripp, the head of a PR firm, and he wrote about it in a recent New York…
Mark Lerner
Things don’t look good for mothers in journalism, according to this excellent longread by reporter Katherine Goldstein. Media organizations everywhere are struggling to keep up with the changing needs of women in the workplace. When…
Mark Lerner