Announcements

It feels like it was only yesterday that Mediabistro gave away some pricey tickets to a sports game but they’re at it again, this time giving away two tickets to the Yankees-Red Sox Game for Sunday, Sept. 25th to Kim Crain, VP of HR for CafeMom.com.

“We always get quality candidates for editorial positions through Mediabistro,” Crain told Mediabistro. “It made my day” to win the prize package, which certain advertisers are available for. (We originally had this post reading “which anyone who posts jobs to the mediabistro.com board is eligible for,” but that is not true—shows how much we know. There are restrictions based on geography and some other stuff, so if you are a job board advertiser please check with your sales rep for more details.)

If you’re more of the get a job than the post a job type, CafeMom has a few open positions right this minute so maybe you want to consider that, since they love mediabistro candidates so much!

What are you doing Aug. 23? Coming to Mediabistro’s free event, that’s what. Drink specials, free apps, and mediabistro’s course instructors will be there waiting for you. Ask the teachers, who are also agents, editors, designers, reporters, and producers, for advice about your media projects or about breaking into a new career. Attending will be:

Caitlin Alexander, Derek Scheips, Franz Wisner, Kate Harrison, Grace Begany, Gracey Newman, Harriet Bell, James Fuerst,Jessica Bennett, Julia Dahl, Kim Taylor, Magdalena Alagna Schmidt, Nicole Halton, Pamela Bobowicz,Patricia Ryan, Tiffany Black, ;Laura Lachman,Rebecca Webber, Ryan D. Harbage, Jacquie Hann, andWendy Gillette.

The deets: August 23, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, at The Empire Room. RSVPs required, which you can do here.

The mothership does one of these giveaways from time to time, so we just thought you should know that the most recent winner of mediabistro.com’s sporting ticket giveaway is Jamie Weisberg, Human Resources Manager at Morpheus Media.

“Mediabistro caters to the audience we are looking to hire, which is Display, Social Media, SEO, and SEM talent,” Weisberg told mediabistro.com’s job board staff.

Weisberg gets two tickets to the game Aug. 12 with sit-down dining, waiter service, access to private lounges, and more; the package is valued at $1300.

The semiregular contests are open to anyone who posts a job to mediabistro.com. Morpheus currently has seven positions open on the board so while you may not have won Yankees tickets you may be a job winner if social media or search marketing is your thing.

Mediabistro.com’s annual Career Circus is this Thursday, so if you haven’t registered yet there’s still a little time.

The NYC-based daylong event has sessions for jobseekers and career-changers alike.

Among the speakers: Andrew Goldman, vice president of program planning and scheduling at HBO, who will talk about how to anticipate industry trends in order to build a meaningful career, and Richard Cho (pictured), recruiting manager at Facebook, who will discuss trends in social recruiting.

It’s $145 for the day, but if you can sign up two of your colleagues at full price, you pay just $100.

When Susannah Breslin offered $100 to the best pitch from an under-25 female journalist, the winner, Lauren Rae Orsini, got more than a crisp Benjamin.

She got a job, and in fact the experience changed her life, she said.

Luckily, Breslin has another $100 to throw around (as far as life-changers go, that’s pretty cheap) so she’s doing the same thing, except for a young male journalist.

The rules are essentially the same as the first go-round (except for the gender switch, of course). You must be between 18 and 25, male, and have the best pitch.

The deadline is 5pm EST tomorrow, July 14. The writer will receive $100 when his story goes live and may even get a job out of it. (Who knows?)

Tomorrow is the final day to get the early bird discount ($100 off) for our online conference and workshop, Startup Boot Camp, running July 12- August 30.

The program features Alexa Andrzejewski (Foodspotting), John Tayman (Byliner.com), Sree Sreenivasan (Columbia School of Journalism) and mediabistro’s own Laurel Touby as well as weekly hands-on projects with feedback from real people.

Big news: Our one-day “Summer Starts Now!” sale is today, June 1. Save 25% on any course with promo code SUMMER25.* We have over a hundred new media, writing, and journalism courses starting right away and going strong all summer long. But you have just one day to save! Click here to view all courses.

Not sure what to sign up for? Our email marketing course begins 6/22 online.

*This offer may not be applied to past purchases or combined with any other discounts or promotions. Not valid for Weekend Warrior: 2-Day Film School, Certificate Programs, Self-Paced Courses, or How-To Videos.

The new George Polk Grants for Investigative Reporting will pay for seasoned journalists who “know where the bodies are buried” to “go about digging them up,” thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation.

The awards are aimed at journalists with experience, who aren’t currently employed. (However, while laid-off journos get special consideration, being unemployed isn’t a requirement.)

In addition to providing a temporary lifeline for experienced reporters, the awards are meant to “draw attention to the Internet as a vehicle for uncovering corruption and abuse,” as Polk Awards curator John Darnton said in a release.

The awards will range from $2,500 to $10,000 depending on the length of the proposed project, and comes with editorial supervision; the program will “attempt to place the resulting article on the Web and also in print or on radio or television.”

Apply here.

Are you a freelancer looking to promote yourself on Twitter? A PR pro trying to figure out how to get your company into the social sphere? An entrepreneur wondering what your next step is?

Mediabistro might have just the course for you: the Social Media Marketing Boot Camp.

Starting in early June, spend eight weeks at an online conference/workshop with live speakers like Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble teaching you everything from how to build fans and boost your business to tracking those ever-important metrics.

Starting June 9, you’ll get weekly how-to videos and keynote speakers delivered through live webcast, homework that you can complete with the help of your peers, and discussion forums where hundreds of colleagues from big media companies will be working through the same questions as you.

Each week’s live class is 90 minutes long and features, as mentioned, Kawasaki and Scoble, but also Sarah Evans, Lockhart Steele (of Curbed), Thor Muller of GetSatisfaction and more.

Register here and get two free whitepapers on social media marketing.

Announcement from the mothership: The big winner of mediabistro.com’s Yankees-Mets ticket giveaway this time is Tim Cerabino, Perks Analyst at UrbanDaddy.

Cerabino told mb.com’s job board team that the board is “one of the first places we go when looking to acquire new talent. The candidates we receive from Mediabistro are consistently high quality. They tend to be accomplished professionals with the experience we are looking for.”

For advertising his jobs on mediabistro.com, Cerabino wins two tickets to the Yankees-Mets game on May 20. They’re behind home plate in the Legends Suite, with sit-down dining, waiter service at your seat, access to private lounges, and more…the package is valued at $1300.

The incentivization appears to be working: Urbandaddy currently has 8 open jobs posted.