"I am a recent journalism graduate … really none of the jobs I’ve been rejected for are perfectly down my aisle — they’re not distinctly print journalism, which is what I’m looking for."

"The following journalists are incorporating interactivity, blogs, video, audio, photos and more into their personal sites — all of which speak volumes more than traditional résumés."

Simon Jenkins has got to be kidding, right? "In the age of computers, maths beyond simple and applied arithmetic is needed only by specialists."

Mark Comerford: "I have some issues with the digital native/ digital immigrant meme. … it makes age an arbitrary measurement to digital understanding. It makes it seem that if you are young enough, then you automatically have a digital mindset. I have s

"[I]n a world of new media where everything is digitised and where so much of journalism is about re-working material, do you need to devote 100 hours to teaching 80 words per minute of scribble?"

Ryan Mark, one of the first two journalist-programmers attending Medill: "My goal as a programmer was to get the computer to do my job and make money, even if I’m not around. As a journalist I’ll be trading words for dollars."

Jeff Jarvis on teaching journalism at CUNY: "[W]e are teaching change…We have to get our students ready to adapt as the tools inevitably evolve."

Student journalists at the student newspaper at Quinnipiac College are going independent online because they perceived greater administration interference in the paper. A model for UK student newspapers labouring under censorious Student Unions?

Vin Crosbie on journalism schools: "[S] schools of medicine, law, or engineering lead their industries, developing the new techniques and doctrines their industries use,… most schools of media still inculcate students to hew to the past, rather than sow

Emily Hill: "Interns are integral to the smooth running of many publications. But not paying interns means the profession does not get the best candidates - it gets the better-off candidates."

Helen Pidd: "my first piece of advice to any budding journalist – produce one, brilliant, shameless article that gets everyone talking."

"A University of Lincoln spokesman has attacked claims [made in student newspaer The Linc, edited by blogger Dave Lee] that traces of class A drugs have been found on campus." No drugs on campus. Now that would be a great story.

Bill Thompson: "As I write this I’m also keeping an eye on the British Press Awards because they are being fed live to Twitter by the organisers."

Jack Lail’s reading list for journalism students.