1. Career Strategies in Media Studies Alex Campolo, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU amc989@nyu.edu | @alexcampolo

2. How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking Franck Frommer, 2012 How to think about a career?

3. Media nonprofits and NGOs Why work in the nonprofit sector? Challenges and opportunities

4. What did I do as a research analyst…...and how did media studies prepare me? Qualitative research Design (print and web) Proposal and report writing Internal communications and strategy Public writing (blogs) and publicity (social media) Excerpt from 2011 report for MTV

5. Getting a PhD

6. Strategies for continuing in academia Write a thesis Find mentors Present your work Be open to alternatives

7. Career Strategies in Media Studies Alex Campolo, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU amc989@nyu.edu | @alexcampolo