Seven months in as an IT journalist - 20 things I’ve learned.
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in list, IT PRO, Security, Social Networking on
Seven months in working as a Staff Writer at IT PRO… What can i say? Probably the best thing to do is in what my editor does - write a list based thing about what I’ve learned.
1 Journalists always complain about pay (especially me)
2 Some IT journalists are very strange. It’s a very incestious bunch.
3 IT journalists love getting free stuff - and won’t give it back unless prompted by the PR about fifty times.
4 Once you get a reputation in IT journalism, it’s very difficult to lose it.
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Comment by - July 14, 2008 on 3:57 pm
An excellent “Things I’ve learned this week” style post ![]()
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