What is Mike Kellams from the Chicago Tribune looking for in prospective hires
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Mike Kellams gives internship advice
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- [00:00:05.030]hi how are you my name is Mike Kellams
- [00:00:07.069]I'm the sports editor your Chicago Tribune...
- [00:00:11.120]Today I've got a little piece of advice for you it would be what I'm looking for
- [00:00:15.760]as a prospective hirer of you
- [00:00:19.380]you being my perspective employee and writer
- [00:00:22.460]So a couple things I'm going to be looking for in your portfolio
- [00:00:26.000]I first thing obviously is do you have real,
- [00:00:29.640]live, honest to God, under the gun,
- [00:00:32.640]oh my God I don't if I'm going to make deadline or not experience. Your classes are all
- [00:00:37.199]well and good
- [00:00:38.040]and I mean this with the utmost respect for your professors who your paying a lot of
- [00:00:41.390]money to sit before
- [00:00:42.680]BUT I'm looking for it live. Are you under real deadline pressure?
- [00:00:47.790]Is this really moving? This story is really happening
- [00:00:51.220]and I want you to demonstrate that to me in a whole host of places
- [00:00:55.549]so a portfolio, for example, should say
- [00:00:58.760]here's my Twitter feed and here's the news that I have broken
- [00:01:02.729]on my Twitter feed and then also here
- [00:01:07.080]is the breaking story that I posted to
- [00:01:10.149]the daily report whether that's my student
- [00:01:13.430]newspaper or if I'm stringing for the Lincoln paper or whatever it may be
- [00:01:17.490]here it is in a professional environment live here's how I updated it
- [00:01:21.840]here's then the clip from the next day's
- [00:01:25.170]printed issue when I pushed it forward and I made this story
- [00:01:28.509]more complete more complex I gave with some perspective that the next day might
- [00:01:33.109]offer about
- [00:01:33.999]on not just what happened but what it means going forward for the next step
- [00:01:37.890]and then when you're
- [00:01:41.200]done doing that I wanna see some good
- [00:01:44.509]features, some good profiles, some good work to help explain
- [00:01:48.850]who these people are that your readers care so much about, that you spend all that
- [00:01:53.409]time breaking all of that news on Twitter and
- [00:01:55.530]on your website. Right? That's the whole package.
- [00:01:59.060]And those features and profiles should have what you're watching right now
- [00:02:02.520]which is a nice video clip, hopefully it's nice,
- [00:02:06.560]of who they are and what they have to say about themselves in their own words
- [00:02:09.710]and that goes with your 1500-2000 word story whatever this
- [00:02:15.940]this rollicking piece that you want to piece together that's the thing you're
- [00:02:20.140]most concentrating on, and that's fine
- [00:02:22.090]but all of the supplementary material has to come along with it
- [00:02:25.349]that is the world that we live in, that is the world that
- [00:02:28.849]we may not have chosen when we were kids, but that's the world we had
- [00:02:32.110]since that's the world we have two me work for us and work for you
- [00:02:36.420]and the only way to really demonstrate you can do that is to show it to me live
- [00:02:40.019]and so that's what i'm looking for if you want me to be your boss and if you
- [00:02:43.189]wanna work here at the Chicago Tribune.
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