{"id":120,"date":"2011-12-04T12:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-12-04T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T17:15:09","slug":"see-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2011\/12\/04\/see-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"See the USA…."},"content":{"rendered":"

With apologies to\u00a0Dinah Shore and a certain automobile manufacturer<\/a>, that\u2019s exactly the slogan graduating journalism students need to adopt\u2026Go where the job takes you, learn your trade and eventually, move on\u2026It might be Auburn, California<\/a>,\u00a0Eau Claire, Wisconsin<\/a> or\u00a0Jonesboro, Arkansas <\/a>\u2026Everyone starts somewhere and everyone has a story to tell about that start\u2026<\/p>\n

News Director\u00a0Amy Beveridge<\/a> of WMTW in Portland , Maine and Boston.com Editor\u00a0Ron Agrella<\/a> offered insight and advice to a group of soon to be graduates at the Boston University sports journalism seminar series\u2026And honestly, I think the times have changed my thinking on starter jobs\u2026Normally i wouldn\u2019t recommend taking a job on the overnight assignment desk or answering phones and editing copy at a newspaper as a way to get your foot in the door but Beveridge, for one disagrees\u2026\u201dIt\u2019s going to make you more marketable and you\u2019ll be immersed in a newsroom, said Beveridge, you can do that for a couple of months while you look for what you really want to do\u2026I will be much more impressed that you worked an overnight desk than, \u2018well, I couldn\u2019t find exactly what I wanted so I worked at Abercrombie and Fitch\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Another issue the about to be grads fail to come to grips with, perhaps due to their own lack of confidence in themselves, is their own worth in the emerging job market\u2026Knowing how to shoot their own video, edit on their laptop and being amazingly conversant in multimedia skills is no small fete\u2026As I\u2019ve said many times, these are skills those working in these very same small markets don\u2019t have and the are afraid of you for having them\u2026You are the new competition, the young guns with the latest tools at your fingertips\u2026You have something valuable to add to their newsroom\u2026<\/p>\n

Finally, one thing that hasn\u2019t changed despite new technology and social media is your attitude\u2026.A potential employer wants to know what you can bring to your new place of work\u2026.Agrella summed up what every potential employer wants to hear \u00a0from you, \u201cI don\u2019t care how many hours I need to work, what hours I need to work\u2026If I need to work holidays or nights, I want to be here\u2026I want to be part of this organization\u201d\u2026he said he hears very few candidates say that directly to him but warns, \u201cNow just don\u2019t say, it, you have to mean it\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve worked hard for that sheepskin, now go do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With apologies to\u00a0Dinah Shore and a certain automobile manufacturer, that\u2019s exactly the slogan graduating journalism students need to adopt\u2026Go where the job takes you, learn your trade and eventually, move on\u2026It might be Auburn, California,\u00a0Eau Claire, Wisconsin or\u00a0Jonesboro, Arkansas \u2026Everyone starts somewhere and everyone has a story to tell about that start\u2026 News Director\u00a0Amy Beveridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}