Every day we scour major job boards, including, but not limited to Mediabistro.com’s listings, to find the best media jobs out there. We screen out duplicates and scams so you know you’re only receiving the top choices.

As of the time of this posting, there were 1482 jobs on our board.

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The best city for social media jobs is, unsurprisingly, New York, followed by San Jose and San Francisco. But you’ll also see Minneapolis, Denver, and Baltimore on the list.

“Blogger/social media content writer” is the most popular job title, and in New York that position pays anywhere from $22,000 to $60,000.

A social media marketing manager can make six figures in five major cities.

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There are 150 employees in the marketing division, plus an unspecified number of PR employees. The NYP said that about two percent of the entertainment division as a whole are getting the ax, so if the cuts are distributed evenly, there won’t be really “scores” to worry about in each department–though the cumulative effect is sure to be chilling.

These cuts are separate from the marketing department reorganization that is ongoing, in which 10 employees lost their jobs, including Jim Vescera, who had been with the company for 26 years.

Meanwhile, the Post said, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke has asked NBC News and CNBC to find $10 million in savings.

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In a blog post called, simply, Why I Should Work For Radian6, the Mount Allison University senior wrote about why he likes the company and what his skills are.

Essentially, it’s less of a marketing campaign and more of a really long cover letter with some images and links thrown in.

Here’s a sample:

In order to engage with your followers, you need to know when your community is most active. So I did a full analysis of my Twitter account, using different tools, to figure out what were the optimal times for me to share content with my community. I compiled the data, analysed it, and came up with results for when to best share curated content, re-tweets, and my own blog content.

And it has worked well for me so far! I always measure my results that I found from my analysis and make sure it is consistent with my findings.

I do all of that on my own spare time. I don’t sell a product or a service, I don’t get online revenues from ads and such. The only reason I do this is for the sole purpose of my own education (and for fun, of course!). I think it’s very important to invest in myself, and I believe that this learning experience has thought me extremely valuable skills that are in high demand in the social media and marketing industry nowadays

According to Ragan.com, he heard from Radian6 within 24 hours and had a phone interview earlier this week.

Of course, getting a company’s attention through a campaign or blog post like this is only the first step, and Hebert will need to back up his enthusiastic online presentation with a great phone (and in-person, perhaps) game. But he’s definitely on the right track.

We’re posting this as a counterpoint to the more flashy campaigns we’ve covered in the past, which can certainly work if done well but aren’t necessary, if you don’t feel your strength lies in that area.

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Dear Open Source Staffing & NYC PHP Meetup Group:

I’m super awesome and have incredible experience compared to this – it includes the required experience below plus I am trained in MMA fighting, am the mayor of multiple Chipotles, Starbucks, and locally
famous restaurants in downtown NYC, and I type really fast. You want to hire me more than anything and you’ll be disgusted at how fast and responsive your API is when I’m done.

You’ll have to pay me ridiculous amounts of money but after the job is done you’ll wish you paid me more to stick around because you’ll know whatever company hires me next will destroy yours. It will be worth
it, you’ll feel like I just got ripped off every time you write me a check. Each week you’ll feel worse and worse and increase the amount of money you are paying me until one day you realize there’s no amount
of money that could add up to the value of my insanely awesome skills.

It’s ok, it happens to everyone.

You’re welcome,
David

Deputy editor Nicholas Carlson said that he “sincerely hope[s] [it] was an attempt at humor – and not an attempt to get a job.”

But at least one commenter said he’d definitely “want to talk to a guy with a cover letter like that.” In the startup world, sure. Applying for a writing job at CollegeHumor or Cracked.com, this strategy might also work. It might, however, come across as conceited no matter where you’re applying to. Use with caution.

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• When Is An “Intern” An Employee Under The FLSA? (via Wage & Hour)

• Check out our new pinboard, Unemployed Alphabet, highlighting… (via 405 Club)

• Tech journalist named Time editor at large (via Talking Biz News)

• CNBC hires exec to create reality programming (via Talking Biz News)

• Associated Press names Picht new Minnesota/Dakotas bureau chief (via Braublog)

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But foodie.com, to be launched by Glam Media, says it will be different, because it is a site for the food lover with a serious social layer. According to BI, “Foodie will bring people, social profiles, fan pages, social feeds, and discussions together with recipes, menus, chefs and restaurants.” It’s also the first time Glam Media will be launching an app.

It is expected to reach 10 million consumers per month.

We weren’t able to find information about who will run the site, but we did learn that Glam is seeking marketers as well as a director of network development and strategy.

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As a reminder of how huge Gannett is, that applies to 785 people, but Gannett is going to accept “only” up to 665 employees, split among Gannett’s properties. For example, at the Asbury Park (NJ) Press, up to 47 people can take the buyout, while at Florida Today (in Brevard County, Fla.) only 11 volunteers will be accepted.

Gannett Blog’s Jim Hopkins says that the buyout “represent[s] a major shift in the company’s payroll reduction strategy” for a company that usually implements layoffs or unpaid furlough days.

Also, “Until now, GCI has never extended buyouts to such a broad group of employees simultaneously.”

Employees have 45 days to volunteer. It’s unclear how much money Gannett hopes/needs to save from this program and whether Gannett will resort to layoffs if it can’t reach the desired number of cuts through volun

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In this episode of “Cubes,” we tour the Manhattan offices of Seamless, the popular online food delivery service.

The Seamless headquarters boasts an interactive Google Earth “weather wall,” blood pressure-lowering chairs, a game room with foosball and ping-pong, and a bunch of other cool features.

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The four-week moving average, which smooths out seasonal fluctuations, fell to 366,250, nearly a four-year low.

“It not only validates the gains that we had last month … but it shows that we are likely to add to those gains in a meaningful way in February,” Millan Mulraine, senior macro strategist at TD Securities in New York, told Reuters.

Meanwhile, the picture is only somewhat less rosy for those receiving continuing claims: for the week of January 16-20, 4 million Americans were receiving regular unemployment checks from their states, about half a million fewer than a year ago, and 2.98 were receiving emergency unemployment benefits, about one million fewer than last year.

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If a pinner has added his or her own affiliate code, Pinterest won’t delete it to insert its own, but otherwise, links to ecommerce sites are fair game.

This isn’t disclosed anywhere on Pinterest’s site.

This is interesting on a number of levels, Josh says. “Pinterest is taking the unique path of generating revenue early…I wrote previously on how Pinterest could be the most valuable social network for retails sales, and in Pinterest’s case, they have found a relatively easy solution to start capturing the value of the network before they even leave their beta phase.” But, it’s also creepy. “How they are doing it with no disclosure to users feels weird…I, like many people, don’t have a problem with Pinterest making money off of user content. The links are modified seamlessly so it doesn’t affect the experience. Pinterest likely should disclose this practice to users even if they aren’t required to do so by law, if only to maintain trust with their users.”

In a follow-up post, Josh points out that Pinterest’s terms of service unequivocally say they can do this (or whatever they want to your pins) and that it’s not illegal to not disclose affiliate links. But it is kinda creepy, no?

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• Big Changes at Newsweek/The Daily Beast (via FishbowlNY)

• Patch Swears It Isn’t Cutting All Of Its Freelancers (AOL) (via SAI)

• ‘There are no layoffs planned,’ says Patch (via JIMROMENESKO.COM)

• How to be a dream PR intern (via JIMROMENESKO.COM)

• how to ruin your job interview (via Ask a Manager)

• David Schlesinger to leave Thomson Reuters (via JIMROMENESKO.COM)

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Among them: Tell as many people as you can in person. Start with your immediate supervisor, and make sure you have a copy of your resignation letter in hand (it doesn’t need to be fancy, but you should have one). Make sure you have a “how to be me” document that lists all the projects you’re working on, passwords your replacement might need, contact people, etc.

And of course, after you leave, stay in touch! This is harder than it may seem because some people who seem like great friends are really just “work friends” who it turns out, you don’t have all that much in common with except work. But do, as Lawlor suggests, ask for a recommendation on Linkedin while they still remember you, and do try to send the people you liked a note every now and then to say hello.

Good luck!

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The AFP reports that the offer is not being extended to all newsroom departments and certain volunteers will be turned down if “we feel their departure would impair our journalism,” executive editor Marcus Brauchli said. “That said, it is important that we achieve real savings.”

According to ombudsman Patrick Pexton:

Depts protected under buyout: natl politics, natl security; foreign; investigative; Style/Sports columnists, Weekend, Sunday Outlook

— Patrick Pexton (@WaPoOmbudsman) February 8, 2012

Also protected under buyout graphics and Capital Business

— Patrick Pexton (@WaPoOmbudsman) February 8, 2012

Unprotected under buyout: Metro/local, photo, sports, business, Style editors and reporters, and everything else in newsroom.

— Patrick Pexton (@WaPoOmbudsman) February 8, 2012

Update: Pexton wrote us to say he was mistaken about the investigative team being protected from the buyout. They are, indeed eligible for the buyout. Here’s his corrected tweet:

Post buyouts. Correction from earlier. Investigative team is eligible for buyouts. National Enterprise team not eligible.

— Patrick Pexton (@WaPoOmbudsman) February 8, 2012

The Post company is scheduled to announce its fourth-quarter earnings at the end of the month. The newspaper’s third-quarter earnings showed a steep decline in both print and online revenues.

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Mikki Taylor spent over 30 years at Essence, first in the mag’s fashion and sewing department in the early 80s and most recently as its cover and style director. You’d think leaving such a prestigious job for the uncertainty of entrepreneurship would come with some trepidation, but Taylor says stepping down to an editor-at-large position just felt right.

“I think for about 60 seconds I had the fear that ‘what if Mikki Taylor doesn’t make it with Mikki Taylor Enterprises?’” the style and beauty expert explained in our Media Beat interview. “Well, what if this doesn’t work? Then, I’ll do something else, because I’m always going to find myself in the place of empowering women. And I know too much to stop now.”

Watch the full video for more of Taylor’s tips on climbing a magazine masthead.

Part 1: Mikki Taylor on Her 30 Years at Essence
Part 2: Essence‘s Mikki Taylor Takes on Casual Fridays

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