Joe Grimm is a visiting editor in residence at the Michigan State University School of Journalism. He runs the JobsPage Website. From that, he published "Breaking In: The www.JobsPage.com Guide to Newspaper Internships". In 2008, Joe published "The Best of Ask the Recruiter," drawn from his Poynter Online column. Joe was recruiting and development editor for the Detroit Free Press from 1990 through 2008. Newsrecruiter.com is his hub site.
Few successful journalists make it all on their own. Most have help from mentors and become mentors themselves.
During this week’s career chat, we’ll talk with Randall Yip, senior producer at KGO-TV in San Francisco. Yip and I are … Read more
The busiest internship season of the year is just beginning, and we want to prepare interns and newsrooms for some great experiences.
During today’s career chat, we talked with Joanna Hernandez, director of career services at the CUNY Graduate … Read more
There’s a good chance you already have the equipment you need to add video to your reporting skill set. In an increasingly visual and mobile news environment, that can be a job saver.
During a live chat, experienced multimedia journalist … Read more
Scott Elliott, incoming president of the Education Writers Association, is the education reform reporter at The Indianapolis Star.
That’s a pretty unusual job title and a beat that Elliott pretty much carved out himself. During a live chat, … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Randy Essex, senior editor for local news at the Cincinnati Enquirer/Cincinnati.com and Kentucky Enquirer/NKY.com.
Essex uses social networking sites to find people for jobs in his newsroom, and job opportunities have … Read more
During our latest career chat, we talked with Lauren Rabaino, news applications editor for The Seattle Times. Rabaino is a digital journalist who works to improve storytelling and audience engagement with design and the development of digital news applications. … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Glenn Burkins, editor/publisher of Qcitymetro.com in Charlotte, N.C.
Burkins, who started his site in 2008 after more than two decades with major metro newspapers, talked about why and how he started … Read more
During this week’s career chat, we talked with Holly Edgell, the new community editor at WCPO-TV, an ABC affiliate in Cincinnati. Edgell talked about what goes into the job, its objectives, and how the community editor role is expanding. … Read more
Chris Seper, founder and CEO of MedCity Media, recently wrote that the best way to save a newspaper is to stop acting like one. Newspaper companies, he said, need to start thinking of themselves as being in the … Read more
One of the newest jobs on the landscape is Dao Nguyen‘s positon as director of growth at BuzzFeed. As TechCrunch’s Drew Olanoff recently explained, Nguyen’s job is to “build traffic by helping readers find the content that … Read more