The Toughest Journalism Job Interview Questions

Journalists know how to ask tough questions. They need to know how to answer them, too.

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An editor once shared with me her way of weeding out interviewees for entry-level jobs: She’d ask which stories from her publication that they liked.

Those who hadn’t prepped for the interview would be at a loss.

Those who were just mass-applying everywhere would, at best, reply with something from the last…