Some articles of interest about news/tech orgs and their hiring process and work expectations.
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Twitter thread by Lori Todd on hiring for NPR's social media intern:
- Cover letter first graf must be good.
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Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? Here are 8 steps - by Scott Klein at ProPublica.
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Getting a Job in Journalism Code - by Jeremy Merrill and Sisi Wei (2014), back when they were recent grads.
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The Art of the Job Interview - Insights from various newspaper editors, in 2002.
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Lena Groeger: Developer, designer, and journalist at ProPublica, origin story
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Allison McCann, Visual Journalist, FiveThirtyEight, origin story
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How to Break Into Data Journalism - with Jeff Larson (2016)
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Interview Insider: How to Get hired at Vice - by Heather Wood Rudulph (2015).
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Interview Insider: How to Get Hired at BuzzFeed - by Heather Wood Rudulph (2014).
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Want a job at Gawker Media? You can get a head start by being a regular commenter - by Mathew Ingram, 2013.
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CNN's Meredith Artley: Here’s what we look for when we hire young journalists, j-school grads or not (2012)
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Hiring in the Digital Age - Bob Cohn (2012)
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When Hiring Isn't Hell It Looks Like This - by Rachel Schallom (2017)
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An Open Letter to Newsroom Hiring Managers - by Rachel Schallom (2017)
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Surviving the News Business - Burnout, self-care, and human-tested tactics for staying okay at work , by Tiff Fehr and Alyson Hurt (2015)
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Ms. Management: I Hope You Find the Time to Read this Column - The difficulty of soft power + bias in job listings, by Stacy-Marie Ishmael (2017)
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What I Learned from Researching Newsroom On-boarding and Off-Boarding Processes - a survey of 221 newsrooms, by Sandhya Kambhampati.
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Slacking with Erin Bakst, Vox Media's Head of People Operations
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Making Remote Work Work - by Christopher Groskopf (2014).
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How to Break Into the Tech Industry—a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews - an extensive writeup by Airbnb's Haseeb Qureshi.
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How to Get a Job at Google, Part 1 - by Thomas Friedman (2014)
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How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2 - by Thomas Friedman (2014)