Journalist 沃尔特·麦德 (’76) 给s Career Advice

In 但是今天的 “快速开始找工作” series, BU alums are featured with short interviews describing their leadership in their field. Topics range from banking, 广告, tech start-ups, 新闻, and nonprofit organizations.

Alums talk about how they got to be where they are, mistakes they’ve made, and what they’ve taken away from those mistakes. 他们告诉我们他们在招聘时看重什么，并为那些刚刚开始职业生涯的人提供建议。

This week's featured alum is 沃尔特·麦德 (’76), an assistant managing editor at 底特律新闻, responsible for overseeing the paper’s investigative team. 他还编辑周刊的娱乐和评论栏目。 Over the course of his career, he has written and edited for numerous newspapers, including the 明尼阿波利斯星, the 圣保罗调度 and 先锋新闻, 《今日美国》, 《新闻日报》/纽约 《新闻日报》, and the 纽约时报, where he edited the paper’s “Styles of the Times” weekly section. Middlebrook was an assistant features editor at 底特律新闻 for a year in 1987 before heading to 《今日美国》, and returned to the paper in 2007 as director of recruitment and community affairs. 2009年，他被提升为《都市》栏目的副总编辑，并于2014年担任现职。

Middlebrook received a 传媒学院杰出校友奖 in 2015.

今天部: 你是怎么来波士顿大学学习的？

麦德: 我是一名转校生，为了回到最初在我高中毕业时录取我的学校，我经历了一条痛苦的道路。 那时，我拒绝了波士顿大学的邀请，在麻省理工学院呆了两年，在那里我接触到了新闻，信不信由你。 I took a year off and spent a year as a clerk at the 波士顿环球报. 我回到了我的家乡田纳西州的孟菲斯。我以为我能在那家报社得到一份报道工作，但后来我被告知那家报社唯一能提供的职位是“文员”，所以我的想法落空了。 So I worked nights at the paper under horrible conditions and took a semester of classes at Memphis State University before returning to Boston, where I was admitted to 波士顿大学, to begin studying for a degree in 新闻.

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