So You Want to Be a Journalist?: An Insider's Guide to Career Opportunities
- ISBN-10
- 0749427574
- ISBN-13
- 9780749427573
- Series
- So You Want To Be A Journalist?
- Category
- Journalism
- Pages
- 51
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kogan Page Publishers
- Author
- Dean Short
Description
Praise and Reviews "the book contains a lot of valuable information and advice on how to enter the world of journalism." NEWSCHECK The popularity of journalism as a career is only outweighed by the competitiveness of the trade, so that the warts-and-all view of the job presented here will prove all the more useful to the many would-be journalists wondering how to make the grade. Dean Short tells it like it is, showing the many ways in which a living can be made from journalism and offering practical tips and realistic advice on getting a start. Complete with mini-case studies and a variety of anecdotes drawn from his own wide experience, his is a lively, up-to-the-minute account that will enable readers to decide how seriously they hanker for the cut-throat world of the deadline.
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- 2012-09-17
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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