My First Year As a Journalist: Real-World Stories from America's Newspaper and Magazine Journaists (1st Year Career Series)

By Dianne Selditch

A collection of personal accounts describes the first jobs of such high-level journalists as Helen Thomas, the dean of White House correspondents, and Betsy Carter, the executive editor of Harper's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802774261
• ISBN13: 9780802774262
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

LOVE IT!

This book is wonderful for those who are in journalism school (undergrad and grad) looking for advice from successful journalists. You won't recognize any of the contributors necessarily (no Woodward, for instance), but that's partly what makes it so good. It has honest and exciting examples. In this book you'll notice that there seems to be a trend from where the contributors have worked and graduated: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Orlando Sentinel, etc. Perhaps the author called upon some friends to write entries for the book? However that doesn't seem to matter, since the experiences of each journalist vary widely and each have something unique to tell. The 22 inspirational entries were written by several types of journalists; most were reporters, some were editors, but they all started at the bottom. Since reporting can be a difficult field to break into, discouragement can creep up relatively easily. Cue this book. While searching for your first journalism job read one of these entries per day. (I've scribbled notes all over my own copy.) Not only will it keep your motivation up, you'll learn tips and tricks along the way!

Excellent book

This book is filled with rich, detailed stories on journalists' rookie years in the newsroom.