Recent content by Andrew Olson

This position was posted almost exactly one year ago (May 2013). The SE replied with a copy&paste email saying the paper had received more than 200 applicants.

Yes - happy for him

Thanks for this post. I'm a "recent" grad (August 2012) and on the clock for needing my own health insurance (turning 26 in October), still looking for that first real job. The waiting game gets pretty stressful.

753 applicants to be exact. This is the first day I've noticed it has moved from open to closed to new applicants.

I hate to threadjack this even further, but in three years of reporting, my experience has been 99% word processors (Pages, Word, Bean, Evernote, Google Docs). At the local paper (campus correspondent), student paper and the website I've written for, it has always been just e-mailing a file to...

I'm a little disappointed that UF did not teach InDesign in an intro/required course for Journalism majors. Seems like a lot of publications want someone with InDesign experience. UF's program for Journalism majors allows some electives, but you can tell which ones are meant for news...

I cover UF. My twitter account would be at its most efficient if I just followed fellow UF reporters, national outlets and other accounts directly relevant to my job. I actually cover a lot of reporters that don't have much or anything to do with UF, a lot not even sports, but are simply...

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Carter's still in the biz, in-house writer for UF http://www.gatorzone.com/carter/