Category — Recommended Sites

If you’re in the hunt for an opening as a magazine editor — especially if you live in New York or on the west coast — then there’s probably no site on the Internet that’s as closely targeted to your niche as Ed2010.com. Begun just over a decade ago by Chandra Turner, who was then working as an editorial assistant for a New York-based magazine, the organization has since grown nationwide as a place for aspiring editors to look for jobs and share gossip with their colleagues.

Perhaps the site’s best feature is its “Whisper Jobs” section, which “Ed” (the moniker for the unnamed editors who update the site’s job listings) says is purely based on word of mouth within the publishing industry in New York and around the country. I’m not based in the northeast and so I can’t verify whether every single one of the whisper jobs are accurate, but the site features job listings you won’t find anywhere else — certainly not on the major job search sites like Monster, Yahoo’s HotJobs and CareerBuilder.

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For freelance writers of all kinds, there’s perhaps no site that’s as vital to keeping up with the publishing industry — from the perspective of writers and creative professionals — than MediaBistro.com. Packed with years’ worth of feature articles, blog posts and message boards detailing the trials, tribulations, challenges and issues facing the freelance writer over the past half-decade or so, the site is considered a daily must-read for those hustling their way through this business.

And hustle they must do, because today’s economic times are particularly tough for the freelance writer, even though they follow several years of downsizing that have left the magazine business a shadow of its former self, in terms of the opportunities that once were available to writers in the industry as well as the handsome per-word rates freelance writers especially could once command.

The good news is that MediaBistro tackles all these issues and more head-on, with a New York sensibility (it was founded and still operates from its headquarters there, though now it is part of a larger communications company called Jupiter Media) that can often spill over into either snarky or clever, depending on your perspective and likely the part of the country in which you live.

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Whether you’re a new college graduate or you’ve got several years of experience in journalism, JournalismJobs.com should be one of the sites you visit regularly for the latest jobs in print, television, radio and online media around the United States.

The site includes listings for full-time and freelance positions as well as internships and fellowships at newsrooms across the country, all easily accessible from its very user-friendly job search engine. Also highlighted are featured jobs (usually jobs that require at least a few years of solid journalism experience) at news outlets, often in major markets.

While JournalismJobs.com also includes links to salary surveys and its own media-related news and feature stories (now hosted by its sister site JournalismGossip.com, to which we’ll devote a future blog post), the job search engine is the core feature of the site.

Read all about it at JournalismJobs.com.