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Specialized journalism is back in demand, with fresh openings from Washington policy beats to Canadian courthouses and the booming recommerce sector.
Specialized Beats Are Where the Action Is Generalist content roles get all the attention on job boards. Meanwhile, the most interesting openings right now belong to reporters and analysts who can go deep on a…
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The Specialist Premium Is Real Scroll through enough job boards and you'll notice a pattern forming: companies with clearly defined audiences are staffing up for leadership, not generalist "content" hires. Specific, senior roles that require…
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The Creator Economy Goes "Grown-Up" Creator-led media companies have spent the past few years proving they can build audiences. Now the hard part begins: building businesses. One of today's most compelling media job listings on…
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Specialist Beats Are Back in Demand For years, the media hiring market rewarded generalists. Companies wanted content people who could do a little of everything: write, edit, manage social, maybe shoot some video. That era…
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The Job Descriptions Are Changing Faster Than the Job Titles In today's media job listings, titles still say "Director of SEO" or "Digital Strategy," but the actual work described inside these postings has shifted dramatically.…
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Government and Digital Media Are Fishing in the Same Talent Pool Something worth watching right now: public-sector employers are posting content roles that read like they were written by a tech company. The New York…
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Digital Storytelling Meets Platform Strategy Something interesting is happening across today's job listings on MB: the roles getting posted aren't asking for writers or marketers in the traditional sense. They're asking for people who understand…
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Editorial Judgment Is Back in Demand For a stretch, media hiring seemed to tilt almost entirely toward marketing funnels and growth hacking. The pendulum is swinging. Several of today's most compelling openings center on something…
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The Jobs Big Media Keeps Cutting Are Showing Up Elsewhere Digital news producer. Pre-press specialist. Media sales for a civic engagement startup. These are the kinds of roles that legacy media companies have been shedding…
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Local Media Is Investing in Leadership, and That Tells You Something Scroll through today's job listings, and a pattern emerges quickly: independent, community-rooted media organizations are hiring for senior roles that combine editorial vision with…
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