Tuesday squibs

The world of media is endlessly fascinating, as these posts show:

• Advice on how to land a job in journalism. Alfred Hermida offers some sound advice, from a couple of sources, on how graduating journalism students can make the best of a bad situation. Related: Student journalist of the year: “Journalistically, I wouldn’t really say I’m surviving“, the post that Alfred riffed on.
• What is…? A handy guide for the new media novice. Not sure how I missed this earlier, but Mark Luckie’s downloadable PDF guide to the new media buzzwords is yet another great gift from Mark. (Note: you have to sign up — free of charge — with Scribd to get the download.)
• Thirst in the Mojave. I pointed to the great Las Vegas Sun feature on water and Las Vegas, which combines video, geotagging, innovative depth material and more, a day or two ago. This post gives some of the details of how the project came together. Related: Alex Gamela has some of the details and words of praise for the project.
• News as a bludgeoning device. Zac Echola has some thoughts on the way news comes and goes and wonders if the way we do journalism is substantially wrong. Thought-provoking post. Good comments.
• Crystal Ball for Media Activism. Michael Geist makes month-by-month predictions for what’s going to happen with technology law and policy in Canada, none of which are far-fetched.
• Telegraph slashes foreign correspondent stringer rates. The glamour is definitely going out of the newspaper biz.
• Five video story forms. A very smart post from Deborah Potter to get newsrooms beyond the “here, go shoot some video” stage.
• Insomniactive. A new-to-me blog, written by venture capitalist John Thornton, and currently dealing with the business of media. I found it through both Steve Outing and Martin Langeveld, two folks who have never steered my wrong. Subscribed.
• Newspaper videojournalism – mapped. A project to map where innovative newspaper video journalism is going on. Sparsely populated at the moment, but it shows promise.
• Who’s Polling Who, Part One. David Sullivan digs deep into the recent numbers on where people get their news from, finds some interesting stuff and asks some tough questions about what’s really happening with newspaper readership. This is the type of analysis that makes That’s the Press, Baby required reading.