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.”
-David Carr’s advice on becoming a journalist. David Carr on Fresh Air
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SO true. Just having a pile of clips wouldn’t get you a job at my company.
(via lifeandcode)
Consejos imprescindibles de David Carr para cualquier periodista en este momento. Escuché lo mismo hace cuatro años y nunca me ha fallado!
(Source: gothamist.com)
