Stories, ideas, and perspectives to spark your next creative move. Be Inspired features profiles, essays, and thought pieces that celebrate the work of media and creative professionals and remind you why you got into the industry in the first place.
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Carlson dishes on operating a 24-hour 'cult-like' news site and responding to media backlash
Tucker Carlson prefers not to pull a comb or brush through his hair. It's among his pet peeves. So when Mediabistro visited with him in his downtown Washington, D.C. office on a recent weekday, it…
Betsy Rothstein
Don't tell Hoda Kotb you can't get a job in television. Not unless you've lived in your car for weeks traveling cross country in the same interview suit to find one like she did, that…
Diane Clehane
You have good days and bad days, successes and failures, but sooner or later you start thinking, "Is there a job out there more suitable for me?" By nature, even the coolest jobs start losing…
Joel Schwartzberg
In this article: Why Briefs Broke | How to Thrive When the Brief Is Thin | Three Mistakes That Make It Worse | FAQ A global study by the BetterBriefs Project surveyed more than 1,700…
Miles Jennings
There's a founder, a freelancer, a designer somewhere right now who has spent more than 72 hours agonizing over their logo. Stop it. Your logo is fine. Logos matter. Just not as much as you…
Miles Jennings
The media industry doesn't just report the news or produce entertainment; it shapes our understanding of who we are as a society. Yet, we've overlooked a crucial segment of our population — Disabled people —…
Miles Jennings
This is the second in a series of posts about Mediabistro's return to being an independent company. The first, "Mediabistro Is Back," covered the separation, the mission, and where we're headed. This one gets into…
Miles Jennings
A designer submits a portfolio PDF containing 47 pages of award-winning campaign work. The applicant tracking system scores it at zero keywords matched. Not because the work is bad. Because the system extracted zero readable…
Miles Jennings
If your media career was built on mastering a single platform, the job description has changed. Advertising budgets are scattering. Social feeds are crowded. Brands are pouring money into digital out-of-home, streaming, experiential and live-event…
Miles Jennings
Ken Sunshine's Sunshine & Sachs PR agency isn't in the industry directories. Sunshine doesn't blog. He doesn't even have a Web site. He's been known to turn down A-list celebrities calling for his help. "We…
Jason Chupick