Mediabistro.com - News for media Professionals

Mediabistro.com is dedicated to anyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a content/creative industry. That includes editors, writers, producers, graphic designers, book publishers, and others in industries including magazines, television, film, radio, newspapers, book publishing, online media, advertising, PR, and design. Their mission is to provide opportunities to meet, share resources, become informed of job opportunities and interesting projects and news, improve career skills, and showcase your work.

“To revolutionize the way creative/content industry professionals relate. Call it the AvantGuild, a new guild for the new guard in media. Media professionals have so much in common, yet we work in our little cubicle worlds, rarely meeting, rarely sharing our collective experiences. We want to create a new version of the 14th-century guild system—so that talented professionals in related industries can meet informally, mentor each other, work on projects together, and more. Go ahead, call us idealists. Call us medievalists even!”

Mediabistro.com is by far the best resource, particularly in the NYC area, for finding good editorial and art people. It is a high recommend site to anyone interested in finding good creative people; there really is no comparable resource. Mediabistro.com’s members are provided with a wide range of benefits, several of which are the following: Discounted LexisNexis access, How to pitch articles, Mastheads Database, Freelance Marketplace discount, Pitching an Agent articles, Editorial Calendar Guide among others. Lat but not least, it provides with ample opportunity to network and make friends with media professionals, providing support, social activity, and industry insider information.

Isn’t the untidiness going to discourage potential users from entering the site?

Are they planning to improve the website design feature?