SPJ's New Idea To Help Young Journos: Speed-Pitching

The Society for Professional Journalists’ Generation J committee (for journalists 22-34) has come up with a suggestion for local SPJ chapters to help young journalists get their first, second, or third jobs. (According to one survey, journalists of this age have actually been hit hardest when it comes to layoffs!)

What SPJ Generation J committee chairwoman Aiesha Little proposes is basically speed-pitching.

“It would be the same set up as a speed dating function, only you’d invite local editors-in-chief, news producers, radio producers, etc.