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Skills that get you hired

• Data journalism

  Spreadsheets, basic Python or R, and freedom of information requests. Small supply, real demand.

• Video and audio

  Shooting, cutting and mixing your own pieces. Most jobs now expect one person to do all of it.

• A second language

  French doubles your options in Canada. Others open communities nobody else is covering.

• A specialist beat

  Health, courts, energy, agriculture. Outlets pay for someone who already understands the field.

• Court and council reporting

  Unglamorous, always needed, and the fastest way to become genuinely useful to a newsroom.