Journo stuff collected on 07/13/2015

• Wolff: In digital media’s youth crusade, career paths are fuzzy

  “Among these are techniques of traffic building, video processing and information aggregation. The most sought after category in “content employment” is in social marketing — that is, as someone who can work the underlying system of social media, most specifically Facebook, to attract traffic. There are more than 50,000 such jobs listed on LinkedIn.

  These new journalism and content jobs may one day produce real profits, but their value is now equivocal. In fact, judging by the ever-declining price of advertising, and the per head worth of a user in most digital media, the value of those techniques and of the digital journalism craft as a whole rather appears to be in free fall.

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  tags: journalism trend digital media youth career

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