{"id":34899,"date":"2010-09-02T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2024-07-01T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:00:05","slug":"cbs-news-pierce-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/02\/cbs-news-pierce-08\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News interviews employment blogger Pierce &#039;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News anchor Katie Couric interviews rhetoric major Scott Pierce &#8217;08, who co-writes the blog <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recentlylaidoff.com\/\">Tales from the Recently Laid  Off<\/a><\/em>, for a trend story about joblessness in America. One of two young bloggers interviewed by Couric, Pierce had actually just gotten a  job at Metacafe as a junior editor. &#8220;Congratulations to you,&#8221; Couric says at the 12-minute, 50-second mark. <!--more-->Piece explains that after arriving in San Francisco, he got an internship at <em>Wired<\/em> (where he was hired by executive editor <a href=\"http:\/\/thedecisiontree.com\/blog\/thomas-goetz\/\">Thomas Goetz &#8217;90<\/a>),  then did freelance work before landing the Metacafe job. (He continues to freelance, recently interviewing actress <a href=\"\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2010\/07\/salt\">Angelina Jolie<\/a> and director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2010\/08\/james-cameron-talks-about-avatar-re-release-sequels\">James Cameron<\/a> for <em>Wired<\/em>.) &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to know what it feels like to make money,&#8221; Pierce jokes. &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel bad about paying $2 for the bus.&#8221; Job-search author Ellen Gordon Reeves, who offers expert advice during the segment, says Pierce did his job search the right way: by &#8220;showing initiative&#8221; with his blogging, which shows &#8220;writing skills and marketing skills,&#8221; and by doing &#8220;something every day, not just sitting home waiting for something to happen.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6761437n\">View video from  CBS News, Aug. 9, 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News anchor Katie Couric interviews rhetoric major Scott Pierce &#8217;08, who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,133,11009],"tags":[11051,10754,8685],"class_list":["post-34899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-rhetoric-film-and-screen-studies","tag-thomas-goetz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions\/93363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}