What hiring editors look for in reporters today

With graduation ceremonies planned around the U.S. this month, it’s a good time to look at what skills these newly minted cub reporters should have mastered during their college incubation period. The best of them will have several internships under their belts and job offers already in their hands, and the rest — the majority — are likely scanning the job boards now in search of the perfect first job, or really, any journalism job.

Below is a quick analysis and completely unscientific survey of current job posts with words such as reporter/journalist/writer in their title.

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