Writing For Pay

Writing For Pay Ep. 009 Show Notes

Jim Geluso covers the city beat at the Bakersfield Californian.

• Wade has a new job.
• We return to the next thrilling installment of our interview with Jim Geluso, newspaper reporter.
• The rewards of a career in journalism.
• The challenges that the newspaper industry faces today.
• How is it adapting? Not very well.
• Newspapers: less litigious, self-righteous about their content than some industries we could name.
• Still want to be a journalist? Really? Advice on breaking into the field.

Jim’s City Beat blog at the Californian: http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/citybeat

Poynter Online - Romenesko blog:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

Music by Morgansorange

Add comment March 22nd, 2008

Writing For Pay Ep. 009 - Jim Geluso Pt. 2

Wade plays hardball with Jim Geluso, pressing him with tough questions about the life of a journalist. In Part Two of the interview, Jim talks about the excitement of local news reporting, the challenges facing the newspaper industry, and how Yahoo! News and the Associated Press are killing journalism.

Show notes at www.writingforpay.org

 

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Add comment March 22nd, 2008

Meet me at SXSWi 2008

I’m in Austin, Texas right this very second for the South by Southwest Interactive festival. If you’re coming too, keep an eye out for this clown:

Here’s a photo I took in downtown Austin with my new BlackJack mobile phone:

I believe this is where the Ghostbusters will have their final showdown with Zuul.

Add comment March 6th, 2008