As a uni student, one of the first few things you tend to ask when meeting someone (in class) is "what's your major?", "what are you hoping to do with it?", so I met a new classmate in one of my fashion classes and we got talking. She mentioned her dad works as one of the senior journalists for the Courier Mail, and of course as I am studying journalism I start asking questions and we started chatting about the recent job cuts (Yes, it's depressing!). She told me the first few people that had to be let go were the online journalists...But.. wait! Isn't online journalism on the rise and print is slowly descending? I was confused. She was confused. She also mentioned they were still keeping the older and senior journalist (who may be less experienced with online techniques). It is quite bizarre.
Later on the week in OJ1 lecture, we had guest speaker John Grey (who used to be the online editor at the Courier Mail). He did a great explanation about the journalism industry and what jobs are remaining, and that there is still hope! (YAY!!). Basically, the industry needs to save money and cut down on wages. Newspapers are still charging plenty of $$$ for page advertisements while online advertisements are still very low. John also mentioned centralisation! This
link will do a much better explanation then if I tried..
What I took out of the lecture is:
1. you have to be the best in what you want to do!
2. digital is the future for news media
3. there is still hope
4. have a back-up plan! double degree students you did the wise thing of studying for the extra 1-3 years!
