Moving beyond journalism

About this episode

Michelle Morgan Davies discusses the evolution of journalism and the importance of building a diverse portfolio of work for freelancers.

Michelle Morgan Davies is known as The PR's Friend and has expanded her work from journalism into supporting communications teams in getting their story told and expanding their coverage. Here we discuss how journalism work is changing and that we all need to build more of a portfolio of work when we are freelance/independent. Michelle talks about using those transferable skills and work-life balance as a mother as well as why journalism is becoming harder to have a sole income. If you are looking to expand your portfolio of work but concerned about your CV or need help with cover letters and interviews - then mentoring sessions are available via the website . There are 6 pages of media jobs to browse and there is also a WhatsApp channel for job alerts. If you have any questions about media careers or a story that you would like to share about job hunting, then please get in touch. More details about The Media Mentor can be found here . For all the latest job listings head here . To get alerts on media jobs as they drop follow the MM WhatsApp channel here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Michelle Morgan Davies

Topics covered

• journalism
• communications
• freelancing
• work-life balance

Keywords

• media careers
• job hunting
• mentoring
• portfolio

Mentioned in this episode

Products: mentoring sessions, media jobs

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