More Advice for the Young Journalist

Mindy McAdams, a journalism professor at the University of Florida who specializes in online journalism, has this to say on what today's journalism grads should have in their back pockets when they leave college:

Half a dozen or so good clips (of course).

Evidence of two or three internships (no surprise there).

Evidence of multimedia ability.

Mindy adds:

Our advisory council members [at Florida] told us they now would like "at least some HTML," as well as demonstrated ability to work with photography, audio, video and Flash. The strong message was that in any stack of résumés for a journalism job today, at least SOME of those résumés WILL have those "extras." All the applicants who lack them are at a disadvantage.