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I'm a journalist based in Venice, California. This page is typically home to news, features and random concepts I find interesting around the Web. Sometimes there's a little self-promotion of my work at EW.com.
This blog also features images and ideas from my March 2009 trip cross-country from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles.
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yup.
“My advice would be you’ve gotta make things. You’ve gotta build things. You can’t say, I’ve got a clip from my college newspaper. There’s gotta be a travelogue that you did with your pals from Bonnaroo. There’s gotta be an audio file that you made. I used to hire people all the time when I worked at weeklies, young people, and if they were coming now I would just say, well, show me what you’ve made with your own two dirty little hands. I don’t really care what you say, I want to see what you’ve done. It’s a time when you can make stuff so much more easily. Now, getting that stuff to rise above the clutter, and getting it seen is a battle, getting paid for it on top of it, yeah, that’s another battle.”
Yes yes yes.
Consejos imprescindibles de David Carr para cualquier periodista en este momento. Escuché lo mismo hace cuatro años y...
SO true. Just having a pile of clips wouldn’t get you a job at my company.
Creating content is something I know I need to do if I want to work for an online news source like GOOD or nymag.com or...