Sunday, July 05, 2009
Referral | Here's a website worth checking out
Jilted Journalists provides industry news, tips, personal finance information and a forum for journalists and others losing jobs in the news and newspaper industry.
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Especially interesting is the article on how AP screwed thousands of applicants for its regional hub jobs by advertising like crazy to fill positions that they only filled from within. The lameass comments from AP simply don't tell the truth.
ReplyDeleteIn Phoenix, for example, where the Republic and the East Valley Tribune have laid off hundreds of people, the AP hired NO ONE from outside. NO ONE.
So, what was the point of spending time on applications, (and wasting the time of AP hiring managers) if they were only gonna fill inside.
A very unprofessional way to do business. I hope they go down the drain.
Who operates this website? I don't see an "about us" page.
ReplyDeleteWeird. I'm on my iPhone. Search jilted journalists Arizona republic. It's two ex-staffers.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on the "contact us" tab at the top and scrolled down. There it says who runs the blog and what it is about and why it was started.
ReplyDeleteThat AP stuff is a total scandal. What a crappy way to treat people. I wish Poynter, E&P, etc. would pick up on it and do a story.
Jilted Journalists is run by Arizona Republic folks who lost their jobs in the December blood letting. It's a good website with some helpful information.
ReplyDeleteFrom Jilted Journalist at the bottom of "Contact Us" page: Who we are:
ReplyDeleteThis site is operated by Jim and Sue Gold and a group of recently laid off journalists, their spouses, friends and frenemies.
Contact in chief: Jim Gold, a past senior editor (not an age designation when he got the title) at The Arizona Republic, a past editor in chief at The Record of Stockton, Calif., a past assistant managing editor at the Reno Gazette-Journal, and a past variety of writing, reporting, photography, production, circulation and ad sales titles at a variety of papers in California and Massachusetts. But he's not a pastor.
Hi, all, and Jim, thanks for the plug and good luck to you.
ReplyDeleteFor those who have checked us out, thank you and we hope we can all be of help to each other. For those who haven't, take a peek. I've posted mentions of our site here before, but if you missed, while gannettoid.com is the official successor of Gannettblog, we are trying to be as our description says, a place where you can stop by for a virtual cup of coffee or a beer and glean some useful information and maybe there's something you want to say, too!?
We are particularly interested in (but not limited to) helping guide the jilted to find new roles in the broadly defined news business or to see how skills can be applied to a variety of other careers, not always obvious. Plus overcoming the double or triple whammies like a bad economy and the, um, vast years of experience some jilted journalists have and the too few others got in before being given their freedom to go do something else.