Congrats. You are part of the reason the field of journalism is a dying breed. Check any online source, most writers have to do free writing at some point in their professional career now.
I take it you went to a school with plenty of local schools around. Where I'm located we have two papers that you could feasibly work for. They cover terrible high school sports teams. Not a ton of jobs around. I'm sure that's the case with a ton of colleges. It also would offer the ability to...
You have your professional journalism license? Sorry. I didn't know. Simply looking for help. If it doesn't apply to you, don't sniff there. Simple as that.
Probably not. But showing you have experience in audio and video, as well as the drive to promote yourself on a site is always good. I trust you aren't recently out of college?
Hard to make money without having solid writers. All I'm trying to do. It's a lot easier to push site traffic to a new site when you have a constant stream of new pieces.
Thanks! Most of the advice I've received from people like Shelley Smith, Terence Moore, and Stephen A. is that you need to show people you can do it on your own. I'm currently running sports director for college radio, interning, and running this site! Hoping to find people with similar goals in...
To be clear: both of us that founded the website are working for free and have both actually lost money. Just trying to be a source for strong opinions and résumé building.
More of a college position as of now. We just launched this week. I'm still a senior at Miami U. I understand we aren't going to pull in primetime journalists. But it's good for anyone in college. We offer the opportunity to podcast, and in the future videocast.
We have started a new website: belowmendoza.com. And we are currently looking to add several writing positions.
We need columnists and "beat writers" in the sense that you would cover the weekly flow of a particular sport.
We are not paying as of now; that's a stretch goal of ours.
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