With over 700 jobs lost in the radio industry in the last few years, consolidation at Global, Orion and GMG, and 25% cuts planned at the BBC, life's hard in radio. You might be thinking of a new career outside of radio as your new year's resolution.
But is it easy to find a new job elsewhere, if the only thing you've known is radio?
As the industry continues to contract, we asked a few people who've left the industry how they found it.
Programming
Neale James
John Collins
Suzanne Tennant
Journalism
Beccy Hockmeyer
New media
Jon Ford
Paul Reeves
Technology
David Jones
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New Year - new job
By James Cridland |
Is your new year's resolution to leave radio?
James Cridland is the Managing Director of Media UK, and a radio futurologist: a consultant, writer and public speaker who concentrates on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business.
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