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Media & Communications resume templates

Templates that give a clips link and a masthead their proper place, and keep the page as well-edited as the writing it is claiming to represent.

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The resume is a writing sample whether you meant it to be

In media and communications the page is read twice: once for what it says and once for how it is written. A typo on a copywriter's resume, an inconsistent style for numbers or dates, a headline that overclaims. Each is read as evidence about your work rather than as a slip.

Pick a style and hold it across the whole document. This is the one field where the resume's own editing is part of the assessment, and reviewers are explicit about it.

Where do clips and a portfolio go?

In the contact line as plain text, beside your email. A clips link is the most-used element on a journalism or copywriting resume, and hiding it behind an icon or at the foot of page two costs you readers.

Keep the portfolio curated to eight or ten pieces rather than everything you have published, weighted to the beat or category the posting covers. If your best work sits behind a paywall, host a PDF or plain-text version and link that, because an editor will not buy a subscription to assess a candidate.

Which numbers a media resume can honestly use

Volume and reach, described precisely. Pieces filed per week, beats covered, audience size, placements landed, outlets by tier. Traffic figures need a period and a baseline like any other metric, and everyone in this field knows how badly a single viral piece distorts an average.

  • Filed 4 to 6 pieces a week on a local government beat, including a records-based investigation that prompted a state audit.
  • Edited a 9-person desk producing 60 stories a month, cutting average time from filing to publication from 3 days to 1.
  • Landed 38 placements across trade and national outlets on a product launch, including 4 tier-one features.
  • Grew a newsletter from 4,200 to 19,000 subscribers in a year at a 44% average open rate.

Which Media & Communications roles are covered?

Every job title below has templates in the gallery, each paired with a career stage so the section order already fits the application you are making. Open the gallery and filter to Media & Communications to see them.

  • Journalist
  • Copywriter
  • Editor
  • Public Relations Specialist
  • Communications Manager
  • Video Producer
  • Photographer

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Related industries

Job titles sit across boundaries more often than a filter admits. If your work spans more than one of these, the nearest two are worth reading as well.

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Treat freelancing as one continuous role rather than a scattered list of assignments. Give it a title, a date range with no gaps, and a single entry, then use the bullets to name the outlets and clients you wrote for, the volume you sustained, and the two or three pieces that did most for you. A reviewer reading eleven separate one-line engagements sees instability; the same work under one heading reads as a business you have been running. Where a client relationship was long or substantial, it earns its own line underneath. Keep the clips link prominent, because for a freelance candidate it carries more weight than the employment history does, and say explicitly whether you are looking for staff work. List bylines under a pen name only where you can confirm them, and note the outlets you have contracted with directly, since editors check both.

Yes, and mixing them tends to weaken both. A journalism resume is judged on beats, output, sourcing and the stories that mattered, so the currency is what you covered and what it changed. A communications or public relations resume is judged on outcome for a client or employer: placements by outlet tier, share of voice, message pull-through, crises handled, spokespeople prepared. Traffic and follower counts sit lower in both, because everybody knows how much of that depends on the platform rather than the person. If you are moving from journalism into communications, which is a well-worn path, lead with reporting judgement and relationships rather than clip count, since those are what a communications team is actually hiring you for. Whichever side you are on, name the outlets or clients rather than describing them by category. An editor or a communications director reads a masthead instantly and reads sector language as a way of avoiding one.

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