carney12

I have sen that Journalist is on the SOL list, but was joust wondering if there is actually a demand for journalists, print journalists in particular in Australia.

Cheers

koalakim

Hi there

You'll probably tend to find that most magazines are published in Sydney. I used to work on a mag in the UK (not a journo though) and have found very little in Melbourne. Newspapers are all over as they like the local papers here.

Best thing to do is to look on Seek as you can narrow it down to journalist jobs. Otherwise you can always freelance and work from anywhere or even be a Aussie based journo for UK publications. I know a few who do that out here.

Good luck!

foxy_rich

Hey,

I'm a journo and found that there are a lot of jobs out here, as long as you don't limit yourself down on location. I was pretty lucky, got a job with The Land within 6 weeks of arriving in the country, but I managed to have 4 interviews in that time, so there are jobs out there.

Seek, MyCareer, CareerOne, Byron Employment are the best ones, I found.

Good luck

Cheetah7

Is there much scope for freelancers? As in submitting the odd article for various publications?

dpwilliams

Am I the only one thinking this post is a joke?

jayr

I think the OP will need a good sub-editor

JR230898

Yes. A sub-ed would have picked up the fact that the word 'good' was missing.

They are after 'good' journalists.

moneypenny20

Presumably they work for the Grauniad in the UK.

Cheetah7

The first post is a joke, it is more than likely a regular poster with no balls to post under his real name in a poor effort to piss take those of us that do not bother to spell check, and I make no apologies for not using the spell check myself as I dont really care to and if it winds people up, I don't really give a toss.

I do however laugh at how much people get so wound up about spelling on here, it really does make me giggle but there is no need for some of the indirect digs that get posted.

However, it was the subsequent posts on this thread that I was interested in.

hoofie2002

Fair enough, but you have to admit that as of late many posts have serious spelling and grammar errors - some of them blindingly obvious. My particular favourite is 'loose' as in "I will loose the visa" - Eh ?

It might not bother you but to me it's the reading equivalent of hearing someone drag their nails down a blackboard.

LouiseR

Oh I hate that one too but my particular pet peeve is when people write Of when they mean Have ! As in "I could of done with knowing that before"

It's have... It's have!

The Bloke

I hope you can spell better than this journo.....
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...012980,00.html

It took me a while to work out who Jenson Nutton was in the headline.....

slipshot

But to be fair, a journo will rarely write a headline, just the story, so the numpty who was typing the headline missed a letter by moving one to the right. Then not checking it...

That's why the Sun managed to come up with some corkers - they have people who have a role that includes creative headline making - and some of them do a fantastic job.

The Bloke

To get a good idea of Australian journalistic standards, watch the ABC's Media Watch program. Some corker stuffups, plagerisms and mis-truths come out in that show.