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A ‘circa long, long ago’ video about journalism jobs

Monday, March 10th, 2008

A major thank you to David Cohn for finding this gem of a video on jobs in journalism circa — I don’t know a long, long time ago.

Seriously. Is this how journalism used to be?

I remember a “Reading Rainbow” episode when I was growing up about how a newspaper was published, and even then, elementary school, I remember thinking it seemed dated. But I still loved that show.

I’m going next week to give a presentation on journalism as a career to middle school students. Perhaps I should show this video and then maybe the EPIC video, if only to give them a glimpse of how much things have changed and how rapidly they are changing.

Instead, my plan is to walk them through a story, a “typical” day, a bit about what types of jobs exist and where, plus how that’s changing and how to set themselves up to actually break into the biz. Then scare most of them away with a discussion of necessary education and internships, hours and pay. Just kidding. (Sort of.)

But seriously, “Women find it difficult to compete with men in general reporting jobs…” lol. And hot type? I’m glad to be in this biz today.

Happyness?

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I am going to see The Pursuit of Happyness tonight. (Watch the trailer.)

It’s been awhile since I had time to go to the movies. I used to go every weekend, sometimes multiple times each week. This semester that dropped off. My TV-viewing habits also fell to empty, which perpetuated my lack of interest in movies. I didn’t see the trailers and thus didn’t know what I was missing.

This movie, which is about a single father who decides to make something more of himself by taking on an unpaid internship as at a brokerage firm, looks good and heartwarming. And I’m excited to have a few hours to spend doing nothing better than being entertained.

My only question is, who decided to spell it “Happyness”? That was honestly what made me click on the link to see what the movie was about. Apparently, the meaning behind the spelling is explained in the film. We’ll see if it’s justified. Either way.