Jobs You Didn't Know Existed In Journalism

By Katie Lepri

​Feb. 20, 2014 – 12:30 – 2 p.m. -- 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.