 |
| Photo courtesy of Flickr user James Cridland |
By Rose McManus
From being unique in your writing, to finding your first real job, reporters and editors from The Kansas City Star offer up their best pieces of advice for aspiring journalists.
Showing posts with label advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advice. Show all posts
Ask the newsroom: 8 editors and reporters from The Kansas City Star share tips for young journalists
Homecoming 2015: Grads come home and share some advice
By Emerald O'Brien
While the football game may not have gone the way Mizzou fans would have liked, this year's Homecoming was still a great experience as alumni from across the country came home to Mizzou. In between reminiscing about old times and introducing themselves to the new dean, we caught up with a few alumni to chat and asked them about what they've learned since they left Old Missouri.
 |
| Photo by Ryan Levi |
While the football game may not have gone the way Mizzou fans would have liked, this year's Homecoming was still a great experience as alumni from across the country came home to Mizzou. In between reminiscing about old times and introducing themselves to the new dean, we caught up with a few alumni to chat and asked them about what they've learned since they left Old Missouri.
How to survive your reporting semester
 |
| Photo courtesy of mojourcomm via Wikimedia Commons |
By Ryan Levi
It's great experience, and it's also a lot of work. But you can get through it. I asked around on Twitter and Facebook and got some tips and advice from folks who have been there and done it.
Letters Home: Bart Bedsole
 |
| Bart Bedsole is an anchor for KZTV in Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2000 with a degree in broadcast journalism. |
DEAR MYSELF AT AGE 20...
Be very thankful. You are among the final generations of young broadcast news reporters that will graduate to find a job that provides a decent salary and a photographer to work with. Ten years from now, people hired for the same position will be required to shoot their own stories, as well as post it all online in more places than you can imagine, and you will do it all for less money.
Don't rush to move on to higher markets or positions, because happiness and success can be found anywhere.
Spend more time on your writing and less building your resume tape. Your coworkers will respect you more for it.
Letters Home: Juana Summers
 |
| Juana's Twitter picture |
Written Dec. 2, 2011
Dear ONA Mizzou,
If I could entrust you with one piece of advice during your time at what I consider the best journalism school in the country, I would tell you this: fail.
No, not your classes, because -- let's face it -- your professors won't appreciate that and neither will your parents. But I want you to experiment with what you do, try different forms of storytelling, take a class in something completely foreign, get in front of the camera if you're more comfortable behind it -- all with the knowledge that you might not succeed. You might trip over your words anchoring cut-ins at KOMU, or turn in a story for convergence reporting that sends Karen Mitchell into a "what were you thinking" tailspin. But it's all worth it because you'll be learning what works and what doesn't.
Dear ONA Mizzou,
If I could entrust you with one piece of advice during your time at what I consider the best journalism school in the country, I would tell you this: fail.
No, not your classes, because -- let's face it -- your professors won't appreciate that and neither will your parents. But I want you to experiment with what you do, try different forms of storytelling, take a class in something completely foreign, get in front of the camera if you're more comfortable behind it -- all with the knowledge that you might not succeed. You might trip over your words anchoring cut-ins at KOMU, or turn in a story for convergence reporting that sends Karen Mitchell into a "what were you thinking" tailspin. But it's all worth it because you'll be learning what works and what doesn't.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)