PaidContent's Rafat Ali Talks Entrepreneurial Journalism

PaidContent founder Rafat Ali talked shop with journalism grad students at USC Annenberg’s Journalism Director’s Forum.

He says he graduated from J-school and nobody wanted to give him a job, so he started blogging “to raise my own profile, an interactive resume.” Then the site, which covers the business behind online media (and which we read religiously), took off.

His advice for J-students: “Try to get some experience in editing. Because editing is one of the first functions to go.

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