Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Newspaper seeks multimedia newshound/assistant editor

The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript has a unique opportunity for a self-starter. The paper needs a news hound, editor and social media buff to lead online news efforts.

Position includes breaking hard news, pursuing enterprise reporting projects, gathering and editing innovative web content, curating social media and building an engaged online community. The right candidate will have a vision for building an aggressive web presence from a community newsroom that has excelled in print for over 200 years.

Recently recognized as having the best community newspaper website in New Hampshire, they need someone who is excited about the journalistic possibilities at the intersection of new media and traditional shoe leather reporting. They are looking for someone who is smart, endlessly curious and passionately committed to journalism.

Benefits of the position include the freedom to unleash your creative forces in the midst of a website re-launch with the support of a tight knit and dedicated news crew.

In addition to being the online vanguard, the position will include copyediting, page design (proficiency with InDesign is a plus) and content planning for print and web, as well as community building. Candidates should have strong people skills and an insatiable appetite for reporting wide-ranging enterprise stories with deep impact.

The position will require some evening hours and weekend work. Must have a valid driver’s license and properly insured motor vehicle.

The paper offers a compensation package that includes medical and dental insurance and a 401(k) plan.

Please e-mail your materials to Dave Solomon, Editor, at dsolomon@ledgertranscript.com. Include a resume, cover letter addressing your ideas for leveraging new media strategies in a news environment, samples of innovative online work and salary requirements and/or salary history.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Storyteller and source in the digital age

With tomorrow's journalism and social media forum at the MUB, I thought I'd share a blog post I wrote Friday over at journalism21: A few observations and conversations on storyteller and source in the digital age.
Here's an excerpt from my post:
"(David) Carr’s description captured a dilemma described in an email I received from a college professor only minutes before. The professor had been watching raw Youtube footage of injured victims of the Syrian shelling.
How can I integrate any of this?” my professor friend wrote. “It’s messing with me on an existential level.”
It is a conundrum - and a compelling challenge - of this era: How best to harness the rich array of raw social media documentation to tell stories with deeper meaning?"
You can find the full post here.
Your thoughts?

Journalism and Social Media event tomorrow at #UNH

Four spots left as of Monday morning for tomorrow's forum about journalism and social media, hosted by Social Media Club New Hampshire and The New Hampshire, UNH's student-run news operation.

Brady Carlson of NHPR, Mark Fortier of NH Patch, and Chad Graff and Tom Gounley of The New Hampshire will talk about how social media is changing the way their organizations cover news. Jason Boucher of SMCNH will kick things off, and I'll give a broad look at how social media is changing journalism to set the stage.

All will be followed by a Q&A with the social media-savvy crowd. Grab a spot and come out to MUB Theater 1 at 7pm, or follow along wherever you are on Twitter at #smcnhj.


Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Apply for summer and fall internships by March 8

The deadline for applying for summer and fall journalism internships is Thursday, March 8 at noon. The application is a letter to Prof. Lisa Miller with your contact information, a list of journalism courses you've taken and grades you've received, and your first and second choices of internships. Include two clips of stories you've done.

Even if we have met and discussed your summer internship, please turn in an application letter and clips by the deadline. If you have questions, e-mail Lisa, lc.miller@unh.edu.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Journalism Professor Tom Haines to give reading

Join us Thursday, Feb. 9 for our next Writers Series event featuring Tom Haines, UNH assistant professor of journalism and award-winning travel writer, at 5 p.m. in MUB Theatre I.  
Tom Haines joined the Department of English at UNH as an assistant professor in 2011. During two decades as a journalist, he has reported in more than 40 countries and on five continents, on topics ranging from coal to cricket, art to revolution. As a staff writer at The Boston Globe, he was three times named Travel Journalist of the Year in North America, and his stories were anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing, The Prentice Hall Reader, and elsewhere. The Globe three times submitted his work for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2009, he made a leap to the other end of the journalism spectrum, leaving the Globe to help edit and report for The Big Bend Sentinel, a 2,000-circulation community weekly in Far West Texas. There, he also led the design and operation of bigbendnow.com, a news website. Haines has been a staff writer at The Seattle Times and the Idaho Falls Post-Register, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. At UNH, he teaches newswriting and digital storytelling, and he continues to report stories about people and place. He lives in the seacoast of New Hampshire with his wife, Julie, a classical singer, and their two children.

Multi-Media Journalism Internship Program

GateHouse Media New England/WickedLocal is seeking students interested in a multimedia internship. WickedLocal.com is a "portal" site representing featured content from its 158 individual hyper local community websites. Interns work with a supervisor and gather news, conduct interviews, write articles and/or take photographs and videos for individual sites.  Internships are available in the summer, fall, winter and spring. Interns must be within commuting distance of the office they work in; offices are located throughout eastern Massachusetts. If you are interested in applying, contact Deborah DeLarda, human resources coordinator, GateHouse Media New England, ddelarda@wickedlocal.com.

Journalism scholarships available for UNH students from Connecticut

The Connecticut Professional Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists is offering grants of between $500 and $2,500 through its Bob Eddy Scholarship Program. Scholarships are available to any students planning journalism careers who are Connecticut residents and are enrolled at a four-year college out of state, or to students entering their junior or senior year next fall at a four-year Connecticut college.
The application deadline is April 7. Application forms are available at www.ctspj.org.