Brendan Lucas and Damien Ractliffe have landed media jobs for 2013.
The Seven Network is putting the call out for reporters, producers and researchers to join its news and current affairs team.
Reed Business Information is looking for a junior journalist for its Editorial Cadetship Program in Sydney.
Brendan Lucas and Damien Ractliffe have landed media jobs for 2013.
The Seven Network is putting the call out for reporters, producers and researchers to join its news and current affairs team.
Reed Business Information is looking for a junior journalist for its Editorial Cadetship Program in Sydney.
As he packs up his things and departs the editor’s desk, Tom Cowie looks back on a long, hot summer as editor of upstart.
Karen Kissane, an award-winning journalist at The Age, and Jane Cowan, who has been reporting on the Bushfires Royal Commission, are both guest lecturing at La Trobe today. All are welcome to attend.
Channel Seven wants your bums on its seats for its new football show, The Bounce.
Kelly Theobald and Matt de Neef are the new editors of upstart. That means that you should be nice to them. And yes, write for them too.
Crikey is offering heavily discounted 2010 subscription deals for journalism and media students and lecturers.
The Victorian Winter Baseball League is offering an opportunity that could help one journalism student get some career runs on the board while studying at university.
It’s the week before university starts and that can only mean one thing: O-Week. Upstart is keen to hear about your stories. Dreams, disasters and debauchery, we want to know about it all.
The first of our guest lecturers in La Trobe Journalism in 2010 is the award-winning ABC journalist Jane Cowan, who covered the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and has been reporting on the subsequent Royal Commission for ABC TV.
Today’s upstart opportunity is with Metro and Screen Education, who are looking for industry practitioners, teachers, academics and experienced feature writers.
Entries are now being accepted for the Walkey Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards. If you have had an exceptional piece of work published in the last year, now is time to work on your submission.
Fancy yourself reviewing film, music and culture for a career? This might be the kick start you need. Online publication portable.tv is looking for contributors for its upcoming launch.
Are you a final-year journalism student in 2010? If so, you can join the journalists’ union for free while completing your degree.
Keen to for a start in radio? Melbourne community radio station 3CR is currently looking for volunteers to work on its weekday breakfast program.
Everybody can use some style pointers, and that goes for us too. At upstart, we’ve decided to endorse the Reuters Style Guide as our bible for material we publish on this site, and we’ve also just posted a ‘Notes for contributors’ page.
Congratulations to Bachelor of Journalism graduate Ashley Fritsch, who is the latest member La Trobe’s class of 2009 to score a newspaper job.
Upstart is embarking on a quest to discover more about what’s becoming of last year’s journalism graduates. Could this be you?
Despite the record heat, upstart has survived the festive break and made it back for the start of a new year. It’s the dawn of 2010, a year we hope holds plenty of exciting developments in store for emerging journalists.
It’s happy half-birthday to us. Send us your comments, your criticisms, and even your congratulations – we want the lot.
Got a passion for reading, writing and publishing? ABC Radio National’s The Book Show is looking for young writers for a new blog. But be warned, only book worms need apply.
Since upstart put out the call a fortnight ago for the books every journalist should read, the responses have come in thick and fast. Stephen Romei, Sally Heath and others have put in their suggestions, what are yours?
