What a year! What a decade!
We in media have definitely been on a roller coaster ride the last ten years and it seems that it’s not letting up any time soon. This year saw so much change and disruption …
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9 Media Industry Newsletters That’ll Keep You in the Loop
By Emily Weaver
How can you possibly keep up with all the news in the media world when you’re so busy creating content yourself? It ain’t easy that’s for sure. We assume you’re already getting Ed2010 and Talent Fairy’s bi-monthly …
Help Hiring Managers and Recruiters (like me) Find You
By Chandra Turner
I got all of my media jobs via word of mouth. For decades, the magazine media industry was a tight-knit group and we got our jobs and made our hires based on reputation and referrals. When hiring …
Q&A With Alyssa Vitrano, Head of Brand and Creative in Support of Acoustic at IBM
By Chandra Turner
The Talent Fairy chats with people who hire content people
The best part of my role as Talent Fairy is that I get to talk to people constantly. I talk to folks who still work in print …
Chatting With Kristen Dollard, VP of Content at Spartan
By Chandra Turner
The best part of my role as Talent Fairy is that I get to talk to people constantly. I talk to folks who still work in traditional media and love it and want to ride it out. …
How to Get an Agent When You’ve Never Published A Book Before
By Mary Kole
In magazine and website content creation, the editor-writer relationship is key. You’ve pitched, you’ve broken through—now you’re in a collaboration with the person who decides the content of the magazine or blog. Often, you bring them ideas. …
5 New York City Coworking Spaces That Will Make You Leave the Coffee Shop
Whether you’re a WeWork hustler, coffee shop connoisseur, or prefer to work from the walls of your own apartment, there’s no denying that coworking spaces are taking over the city.
Take The Wing, with its fem-powered
How Austen Tosone’s Magazine Background Landed her a Role at a Hot New Tech Startup
I’ve spent a lot of time interviewing people at the top of the food chain lately — CMOs, CCOs, CHROS. But I leave the C suite this week to chat with someone who in 10 years very well could be …
The Content Marketing Terms You Need to Know (Even if You Need to Fake it at First)
In this new tech world we live and work in, a lot of buzzwords get thrown around. But who can keep up with the never-ending flood of new industry terms and abbreviations? For people looking to make a career pivot,
How You Can Get the Money You Deserve Working in Media: Chatting With Cindy from Wager
By Chandra Turner
I made $24,000 in my first job as an editorial assistant at Good Housekeeping. At 25 (um, only three years later), I made $95,000 as a deputy editor at Cosmo. By the time I was 35, …