Finding work in the journalism industry
There’s no doubt that one of the hardest things for aspiring journalists to get is their first break – their first job in the industry. The keys to breaking through are persistence, learning to play the jobs market, and continually improving your application.
Journalism studies equip students with a range of skills that are useful in a wide variety of jobs. The journalistic process involves researching, discovering and gathering information and then communicating it in an accessible, effective way. If you complete all the journalism units you will have the following marketable skills and experience:
- the ability to summarise
- the ability to research and evaluate information
- the ability to interpret and analyse information
- the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
- the ability to write clearly, concisely and effectively
- the ability to network and make contacts
- the ability to interview
- and the ability to work and communicate effectively in different media formats - print, radio, TV and online
So the range of different jobs available to journalism students is very large. Journalism undergraduates at Deakin will also have completed study in other subjects and disciplines. The combination of this knowledge and their journalism skills will give them a big range of employment options:
- Metropolitan media (press/radio/TV/online)
- Regional media (press/radio/TV/online)
- Magazines
- Specialist media (including non-English media, specialist subject publications etc)
- Niche publications (newsletters etc)
- News agencies
- Online services
- Research jobs (including in media outlets and at research organisations)
- Public Relations
- Communications industries
- Publishing
- Media Production
- Event management
- Media monitoring organisations
- Press secretaries
- Politics
- and many, many more…
