Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee received the 2007 Columbia Journalism Award last week, and told the graduating students: “The most important thing for a journalist to have, in my view, is life experience. Your [journalism] degree will do you some good, of course—why else would you have come. But what will do you more…
Daily Archives: 24 May 2007
Yes. TV 18 is looking at a business newspaper
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from Delhi: It’s official. After months of speculation, TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl has confirmed that a business newspaper is in the offing, that Home Shopping 18 will be spun off into a separate channel, and that a $100 million fund is on the anvil in London. In an email sent to the…
The difference between news and TV news
“The one function that television news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.” David Brinkley
How to prepare for an interview? Go to the gym
Question number 9 in Guy Kawasaki‘s interview with Penelope Trunk, author of the Brazen Careerist, produces a stellar response, and beer-bellied journalists who take delight/pity in their deskbound lifestyle are warned: Question: How should I prepare for an interview? Answer: An interview is a test you can study for. So memorize answers to the fifty…
