Jobs You Didn't Know About

Julia Duba and Maria Murriel, recent SPJ FIU alum and WLRN reporters, are coming to outline every other journalism job that isn’t just the typical “reporter” or “editor” position.This is a chance for students to explore their options and see what else they might be interested in after graduation.

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By Katie Lepri

SPJ-FIU hosted a workshop with special guests from WLRN Julia Duba and Maria Murriel. Duba is the morning producer for WLRN-Miami Herald News, South Florida’s NPR member station.

Murriel is the digital editor for WLRN and oversees the WLRN website. Duba began the workshop by asking attendees, “What jobs do you have in mind other than reporter and editor?”

Web designer, Public Insight Network analyst, Social-media manager, and community manager were some examples of jobs you might not know about.

Duba and Murriel talked about job postings that they’ve both seen online which include programmers, “data wranglers”, investigative reporters for non-fiction book projects, comic journalists, and interactivity developers. They also discussed skills you need to capture a job in the journalism field now, like news judgments, interactivity, coding and creativity.

This is one of the first events that SPJ has held this semester. About 16 people attended the event.