928: How to Break Into Digital Journalism With Jessica Yellin, #NewsNotNoise [Espresso Shots]

Jessica Yellin is the founder of #NewsNotNoise, where she delivers daily news reports on Instagram without the anxiety-inducing frenzy you may find in traditional broadcast news. She launched #NewsNotNoise in 2018 after feeling like a large audience, mostly made up of women, had been turned off to watching news due to the hysteria, shouting and partisanship found in cable and legacy broadcast news.  Jessica spent 20 years as a journalist — starting off in print before pivoting into broadcast television.  She reported on national and international news at ABC News and at CNN, where she achieved her dream, to become Chief White House correspondent. Her debut novel, Savage News, was released in 2019 and follows the story of a young female TV reporter. Her Instagram account @jessicayellin currently has over 550,000 followers.  WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: How to break into journalism (2:10) Whether your major matters? (6:30) How and why to establish your area of expertise (8:12) What difficulties come from having such a freeform job 12:00 What shows and movies display journalism the best 15:30 What’s it really like behind the scenes as a journalist 18:25 Why to read Jessica’s book: Savage News If you want to learn more about what Jessica does as an Instagram journalist and how she built her career check out T4C episode #593