Christian May - City AM newspaper

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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Careers, Business, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Christian was appointed as the Editor at City AM five years ago, it has a brilliant reputation for nurturing exceptional talent, the likes of Oliver Shah, Sunday Times business editor, kate McCann of Sky News, Julian Harris and Tom Welsh of the Daily Telegraph all started their careers at the paper. it has been an incredible five years in the UKs history and we get his reflections on how journalism has changed in that period. The core skills still remain of curiosity, judgment, fearlessness, scepticism but not cynicism remain key to being a good journalist. Christian also made clear that the more traditional skills of writing good copy can be taught on the job.We hear how the young journalists pitch themselves in a much broader sense. This is the penultimate episode of the pilot series, so I am keen to hear feedback, particularly from those starting out on their careers such as students or.A reminder you can sign up to the newsletter here. We are on Insta and Twitter @JimmysJobsAnd you can follow me directly on Twitter @JimmyM Thanks for listening Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	It gives me great pleasure to introduce Christian May, the outgoing editor of Citi A.m. to this episode of Jimmy's jobs of the future,
1:11.0	as he reflects on how the media has changed over the last five years as editor of the newspaper.
1:16.5	City A.M. was founded 15 years ago as a London newspaper covering business and financial news in a tabloid style.
1:23.3	It has been entrepreneurial since its outset.
1:26.0	It has over 250,000 readers of its print edition
1:29.6	each day until the pandemic meant
1:31.6	it had to suspend the print edition and become an online only product until it can return to print next year.
1:37.6	We'll talk about the future of the media industry as despite the pandemic and the dramatic impact it's had on CitiAM, they are still recruiting for new roles and
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