Monday, 10 June 2013

Explaining Media Jobs

Editor for ITV's Daybreak.

http://www.mediauk.com/tv/jobs/15958/editor-part-time-11-mth-ftc


The role in this job is to edit the video files for ITV's Daybreak with Lorraine Kelly.

An editor in a job may not just mean a person that edits video clips. For example, there are magazine and newspaper editors who approve of the content that is published.
Taking this into consideration, a video editor could approve of the finished edit.
This means that the editors job for Daybreak is an Editorial job.

Journalist for TTCS Recruitment based in London.

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4649778/journalist/


This journalist job requires you to interview certain people that are associated within the news, which will then be either broadcasted on news channels, published in newspapers and magazines or posted online for worldwide use.
In the newspaper and magazine sector however, a journalist doesn't always mean a person who interviews, within the newspaper and magazine sectors, a journalist could mean a writer of an article.
This job though, asks the journalist to cover all aspects of a journalistic life that I have mentioned above as well as helping support mini conferences and " Attending, promoting and growing an established portfolio of award ceremonies ".
After overlooking the job role definitions, i have deduced that the Journalist job is either Technical or Marketing.
The most obvious job role definition to me that describes this Journalist job is Marketing, this is because Technical job roles are most likely to involve managing electrical appliances within the media sector, for example, cameras, computers, microphones etc...

Job requirements.

Looking at the Bournemouth University website, the only course I could find relating to Editing was a Post Production Editing MA course. According to the website, the course duration is 1 year full time.
This course will require a BA course passed, which is usually between 3-5 years.
Most students that will enroll onto this course will have come from some form of media subject that was passed in college, this is usually 2-3 years.

Education wise, the requirements of this job are already between 5 and 8 years.
2 of the years could be spent in education can be used for work education.
You are then most likely to start working from the ground, up.
This could take years to get the right amount of experience needed to be able to apply for this job.

Overall, we are talking between 10-12 years of education and experience combined to apply for this job.

This amount of time is most likely the same for the Journalist job.

Behavior.

For the editorial job, it is very likely, due to weekday shows, the attendance of the employed worker will have to be everyday (unless a valid and sound reason is given). If the editor is not present, the show will most likely be compromised, this can be said for punctuality.
The commitment to the job is necessary, the editing position of a show is make or break for view ratings.
Communication skills and contribution to team projects will be needed as the employee will be working with an editing team.

For the Journalistic job, attendance and punctuality will have to be near perfect, as magazines and newspaper are published each day, which means journalists will have to interview and write articles every day, failure in attendance and lateness will result in news not being written, broadcasted or published online.
The Journalists will also have to work within groups.