So you want to be a writer? Can you shoot, edit, report, and then write? You're going to have to do all these things to survive in the Incredible Shrinking Newsroom.
According to this article in Wired magazine, two journalism trends are going to make your life as a writer much, much busier. First of all, the web makes content and news cycles churn faster; but second of all, the struggling industry is making less writers do more and more work.
Check it out: "NBC News' recent decision to name make David Gregory host of a nightly program on MSNBC, while keep his job as White House correspondent is an example of how people are being asked to do much more, he said."
If you think you can work in this new kind of environment, the excellent journalism site Content Bridges has a sneak peak at a foreign reporting service that is looking for a few good journalists. Meet Global News Enterprises.
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