Announcements

Got fellowships? The Society of Professional Journalists has two of them!

According to their press release, the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing doles out $75,000 to a writer to broaden his or her horizons and knowledge of the world. As for the cash itself, apparently it may be used for travel costs, researching topics or the cost of studying.

The other award, the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award, is granted to someone who has fought to preserve one or more rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. And it’s not limited to just one person — an individual, group of individuals or organizations may receive the award of $10,000 and an engraved crystal.

The deadline for both awards applications is June 22.

Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm in Chicago, six media CEOs indicated they planned to leave their jobs last month.

John Challenger told FINS, “CEO turnover can often set off a series of management changes throughout an organization, particularly if the new CEO is an outsider.”

So, how does this affect an internal organization?

Two words: Expect change.

“Change is typically inevitable as a new leader brings in other trusted C-level executives who mesh well with his or her leadership style,” he added.  ”Those executives bring in their own people, who, in turn, bring in their own people.”

As for the identity of one of the execs, according to the piece, Jeff Haley joins Marketron, a media software solutions company, after leaving the Radio Advertising Bureau; Erica Farber is his replacement. She’s the former publisher and CEO of Radio & Records, a defunct trade publication.

Regarding year to date numbers, the six CEOs from last month bring the total to 15 execs this calendar year. Although the press release doesn’t itemize the reason of departure by industry, the top three reasons for leaving were resignation, retirement, and pursuing a new position in another company.

Greg Giangrade has been appointed by Time Inc. as executive vice president and chief human resources officer.

According to the press release, the role will be effective April 30.

In this role, Mr. Giangrande will lead all aspects of Human Resources for the Company, including talent recruitment and development, compensation and benefits.  He will report to Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang.

In the press release, Lang stated, “Greg is one of the most highly-regarded executives in his field – he brings with him deep knowledge of the media business and considerable experience in recruiting, developing and engaging employees in our industry.”

As for his specific responsibilities, as per the release he’ll work closely with senior management regarding growth strategies, corporate culture, and maintaining a bench strength of talent, to name a few.

Also pointed out in the press release, most recently Giangrande worked as executive vice president, chief human resources officer at The Dow Jones Company/The Wall Street Journal.

Starting Monday, your friendly neighborhood blogger will be Felicia Pride, a FBNY vet who will have all of you in good hands.

I (Rachel Kaufman) will be chiming in on Tuesdays and Fridays, but Felicia’s “taking over,” more or less.

Besides acting as a contributing editor for mediabistro, Pride is a content producer, creative entrepreneur and educator with more than ten years experience working in media. Her work has been featured by USA Today, NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” and the Baltimore Sun. She has also been highlighted by the Maynard Institute as a Woman of Color in Digital Spaces.
Prior to her work here, she was the founding executive editor of inReads, an online community dedicated to “social readia,” that’s a production of WETA, the nation’s leading producer of public television programming.

She’s also the author of six books, a former book columnist for The Root and founding book blogger for AOL Black Voices. She’s also a hip-hop education fellow at NYU. Welcome Felicia!

Donna Sweidan, career coach and founder of CareerFolk.com, is one of the speakers at Mediabistro’s upcoming Job Search Boot Camp (the early bird registration for which closes today).

We spoke with Sweidan recently about the new way to network.

MJD: What do you do?
DS: DS: I take people from soul-search to social media. As a trained therapist and a career counselor, I strongly believe that people need to understand who they are and what they have to offer before they can market themselves. If they don’t do that initial work and create that foundation it’s really hard to sell themselves. And, of course, social media has changed everything. It’s revolutionized the way we live, but also changed job search and career management.

My talk is on the resume, and I am going to talk about how the resume has changed. Today, your Google results are your resume.
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Three years ago, MediaJobsDaily was born.

We’ve done our best to keep you informed and employed since then. We’ve produced—wouldja believe it?—nearly 6,000 posts, and hey, some of them might even have been good. We’ll leave that up to you to decide, though.

Anyway, we decided the occasion deserved our best awful cake (as found on Flickr, thanks) and we’re gonna nosh on a cookie or two IRL.

With all great anniversary announcements often come announcements of change (okay, we just made that up). As of March 16, we’ll be passing the torch on (but don’t worry, we’ll stick around as a sort of “blogger emeritus”–we just made that up, too). MJD is changing. We think for the better. It’s been awesome, y’all.

Three big thumbs downs (or as they say on Fox 5 in New York, “Shame, shame, shame!”) to share today:

• A big thumbs down for the tipster who sent us the info about layoffs at Steinreich, which we are told is inaccurate.
• A big thumbs down for Steinreich president Stan Steinreich, who waited until after the story was published to contact us to tell us that his company has hired five people in the past month, not laid off seven, and that the offices in New York, LA, and DC have not closed. Yes, he waited until after the story was published, despite multiple requests for comment spaced out over more than 24 hours.
• And, yes, a thumbs down for us. We ran the story, we need to eat our humble pie (despite running out of thumbs, pies, and plums–if that is how the rhyme goes). It’s a blog. Sometimes people lie to bloggers (shocking!). It happens, but ultimately it’s our fault, and we apologize for the error. But if you have any more information, please contact us.

At the end of the month, Mediabistro.com will offer an interactive online workshop aimed at getting you a new job.

Job Search Boot Camp runs from Jan. 31 to Feb. 21, with four weeks of live workshops and guided assignments.

If you register before the 17th it’s only $79.

Happy career hunting!

It’s not too late to register for Mediabistro.com’s job search boot camp, which begins tomorrow and costs $145. Each week for four weeks there will be a live online presentation and in between presentations you can catch up in a special form for classmates, complete homework assignments, and (we hope) land a new job. Watch the video above to learn how online courses work.

Here’s the course description:

In a four-week online event, Mediabistro presents their brand-new Job Search Boot Camp, October 27 – November 17. This online conference and hands-on workshop is designed to help you discover your unique qualifications and learn how to showcase your skills to employers.

You’ll learn from leaders in career management how to:
Define your target job and learn how to get the position you’re after
Effectively communicate your core skills and competencies in your resume, cover letters, and online presence
Create your personal brand and use social media to get the word out about your strengths and your goals
Activate your professional network. Improve your face-to-face connections and create connections online

Speakers include Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby; Kathy Caprino, a nationally recognized work-life expert; Dan Schawbel, a personal branding master; and Allison Cheston, a career advisor.

That’s just the name we came up with for the eight-week program that mediabistro is putting on that begins tomorrow.

The session features a few of the same speakers from the “summer session” (Tameka Kee, Robert Scoble) which made us remember: check out our coverage of the summer session!

Johnica Reed on getting a job on Quora…The most social state…..“customer service” for a blog….

At any rate, if you missed this the first time around, it’s not exactly the same class now, but is starting tomorrow nonetheless. Register here.