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JOURNALISM?

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,120 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Choc123 wrote: »
    Yes

    :confused:

    That's an incredible position to take.

    Would you not agree it is better to inform somebody about a highly important issue sooner than later? And, if not, why would you hide such information from somebody? For what reason? To what end? And how can you justify such selective advice?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    As a student in DCU Journalism, I really must agree with monument.
    The sooner a prospective journalism student finds out about the problems facing the newspaper/media industry the better.

    As for the course, go into it if youare willing to work. Please don't go into the course for a doss, we have enough dossers as it is. And build up your portfolio as soon as possible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭ManoCornuta


    Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a job in a sector which was difficult to gain entry to in the beginning.

    Yes, I believe that anyone looking for advice on pursuing a career in journalism should be made aware of these difficulties.

    However, some of it smacks of arrogance to me. There seem to be people warning about the difficulties of getting a job with an undertone of "I'm doing the course because I'm well able to handle all these difficulties, obviously. Just thought I'd mention it to your lowly self."


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,120 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a job in a sector which was difficult to gain entry to in the beginning.

    Yes, I believe that anyone looking for advice on pursuing a career in journalism should be made aware of these difficulties.

    However, some of it smacks of arrogance to me. There seem to be people warning about the difficulties of getting a job with an undertone of "I'm doing the course because I'm well able to handle all these difficulties, obviously. Just thought I'd mention it to your lowly self."

    And that "smacks" of a poor underhanded attempt at an insult, and the 'undertone' comment sounds a bit paranoid too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Lads, It's standard in journalism not to get a job for several years after graduating. In the meantime however, you have to earn a crust and if freelancing is difficult to get it's hard to make ends meet. At the moment that's the case. It's necessary to point this out, I don't think it's arrogance, particularly when most of the students commenting would have made their decision to do the course when things were nowhere as bad. Look around at the media landscape:
    Irish Times laying off staff and likely to lose E28m this year
    Independent News & Media (Indo, Sindo, The Star, The Sunday World, effectively the Sunday Tribune and many others) can't pay its bonds and its second biggest shareholder says he won't bail it out
    Thomas Crosbie Holdings (the Examiner, The Sunday Business Post and a lot of regional papers) is hurting because of the prices it paid for a lot of the regional titles
    Johnston Press - struggling massively, scrapped sale of regional titles here when prices came in way below what they thought. Is cutting costs now - layoffs likely
    RTE - reports at the weekend it might close by the end of October
    They're the biggest media employers in the country and all of them are in trouble.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 loumac


    Hi there. I'm going into my final year on JR. I couldn't leave the last comment as the last bit of motivation for Piggies wanting to become a hack!!! Journalism has always been a poorly paid profession! Yes we are in a recession and loads of journos work in PR due to the workplace being competitive. This is nothing new. My advice is to get involved in the college paper and the radio station. Don't sign up for every single society and stretch yourself thinly. Get your experience by doing and learning as much as you can on campus. Submit articles wherever you can and grab oppportunites as they come. if you are positive and determined you will get work. So don't let negativity get in the way.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,120 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    loumac wrote: »
    Hi there. I'm going into my final year on JR. I couldn't leave the last comment as the last bit of motivation for Piggies wanting to become a hack!!!

    Motivate away.

    However, as you referenced the last post... could you clarify if you think there is something wrong with it and, if so, what exactly?


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