Print vs. Online
My friend Heesun Wee - most recently a reporter with Business Week online, ABCNews.com and Dow Jones wires - spent the past weekend at a journalism convention in California and e-mailed me about her frustration. She said the newspaper recruiters have developed an unhealthy sneer for time spent at dot-coms and even the wire services. In calculating her eligibility, most counted only her five years at newspapers but ignored her five years covering energy, Enron, the stock market and other business topics at the dot-coms and wires. They left her the impression that she would have been better off even writing briefs at a small-town paper for the past five years - just so long as she stayed in print.
- posted by Amy @ 8/22/2003 10:04:00 AM