Career Kit: Journalism portfolio guide
Journalism-specific portfolio advice and sample portfolios for newsroom careers
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Your portfolio explains who you are as a journalist and what skills you’d bring to the job.
Don’t be scared of the word “portfolio.” It’s just a fancy term for work samples. We’ll review some best practices and walk through a few examples.
These are just frameworks for inspiration. Your experience is unique.
Just like journalism-specific resumes, portfolios can be subjective. This is a compilation of what I’ve heard from recruiters and colleagues as well as what I’ve found that worked for me, both as a hiring manager for many years and as I progressed in my career.
Below you’ll find:
A simple example site I built to use as guidance
Portfolio best practices for journalism jobs
Real-life examples from journalists at different stages of career
Sample site
A simple portfolio outline/example I made using Google Sites: