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Communications, Media, and Journalism

Descriptive Career Information | Job Banks and Searching Advice | Employer Directories | Associations | Graduate School Information

Descriptive Career Information

News Analysts, Reporters, and Correspondents - Occupational Outlook Handbook
Overview of the profession from the U.S. Department of Labor. Includes information about: General nature of the work, working conditions, employment, trainning and qualifications, job outlook, earnings, and related occupations.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos088.htm

Job Banks and Searching Advice

Broadcast Employment Services TV Jobs
Includes national job listings, resume bank, email job notification, industry directories, and salary statistics for careers in television and radio.
http://www.tvjobs.com/index_a.htm

Center for Communication
An indepedent media forum with career resources as well as continuing education seminars in communications.
http://www.cencom.org/

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Online (CPB)
The CPB Jobline posts radio and television jobs and internships. Can search by state and salary.
http://www.cpb.org/jobline/

Creative Central
Advertising, writing, and graphic design jobs searchable by state.
http://www.creativecentral.com/creativec/JobUList.asp

Creative Hot List
Search jobs, companies, and people in a broad range of the arts, including film, advertisting, architecture, animation, and photography.
http://www.creativehotlist.com/

ShowBizJobs.com
Film, television, recording, and multimedia job listings, which can be searched or browsed by industry, location, or company. Specializes in administrative jobs listings within entertainment companies.
http://www.showbizjobs.com

International Film and Television Production Directory
Listings of film and broadcast television production jobs around the world.
http://www.mandy.com/

Jobs at NewEnglandFilm.com
Good source of jobs in the northeast film industry, for actors, producers, directors, production assistants, camera crews, administrators, and more.
http://www.newenglandfilm.com/jobs.htm

JournalismNet
International Journalism job network.
http://www.journalismnet.com/jobs/index.htm

Magazine Publishers of America
Excellent site for researching the magazine industry, with sections devoted to diversity, independent and international publishing, government action, and research. 'Career Center' has job boards for regular employment opportunities as well as internships.
http://www.magazine.org/home/

Media Bistro
Listings for all types of media jobs and internships. Sample job titles are: art director, freelance writer, magazine editor, PR account executive, research director, sales rep, event manager, and graphic designer. Updated daily.
http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/

National Association of Broadcasters Career Center
Nationwide job listings, resume database, and career resources for broadcasters.
http://www.nab.org/bcc/

News JobNet
Job search dabase with listing in the UK, Canada and the US.
http://www.newsjobs.net/Jobs/

Report.org Job Links
List of Job Banks from Reporter.org.
http://www.reporter.org/jobs.html

Sports Casting Jobs
Subscription-based sports broadcasting job network.
http://www.sportscastingjobs.com/

TV and Radio Jobs
Searchable national job bank for radio, television, film and music employment.
http://tvandradiojobs.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi

TVSpy.com
National job bank with resume posting area and industry news.
http://www.tvspy.com/

WGBH Careers
Job, internship, and volunteer opportunities at Boston's own public television and radio station.
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/jobs/

See Also: General Job Banks And Other Job Search Tools

Employer Directories

Journalism Organizations
Journalism related resources gathered together in a central portal, with hundreds of links to journalism organizations and publications, and to other online journalism jobs banks.
http://www.reporter.org/

Associations

Association for Women in Communications
http://www.womcom.org/

Massachusetts Broadcasters Association
http://www.massbroadcasters.org/

Massachusetts Film Bureau
http://www.massfilmbureau.com/html/

National Association of Broadcasters
http://www.nab.org/

Radio-Television News Directors Assocation & Foundation
http://www.rtnda.org/

NCA (National Communication Association)
http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?sid=9

American Rhetoric, Communication Association (Includes links to various other, related organizations) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/communicationassociations.htm

The American Communication Association
http://www.americancomm.org/

Graduate School Information

Peterson's Online Graduate Program Resource
Peterson's online searchable graduate program database. Users can search graduate programs nationally by keyword, location, etc.
http://www.petersons.com

GradSchools.com
http://www.gradschools.com/search.html

NCA (National Communication Association), Directory of Graduate Programs http://www.natcom.org/ComProg/gpdhtm/graddir.htm

 

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English and Publishing

Public Relations

Marketing

Art and Music