Joe Grimm

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.


What makes a good online portfolio?

In this week’s career chat, Marc Samson talked about Pressfolios, a new Web application that helps journalists build and manage an online portfolio of their news stories.

Samson, who is Pressfolio’s co-founder, talked about how journalists can benefit… Read more

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What skills do journalists need to work for niche sites?

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Everett J. Mitchell II, managing editor of The Medicare NewsGroup. The site features original and curated content that’s aimed at journalists covering Medicare.

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How to effectively recruit, hire for diversity in newsrooms

Recently, Beijing-based journalist Debra Bruno wrote a column describing how the search for diverse job candidates turned her into “a Facebook stalker” when she worked at Roll Call. When she ran the site’s internship program, she was told… Read more

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What are the opportunities, challenges for business & tech reporters?

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Wade Roush, chief correspondent at Xconomy, and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. Xconomy, a site that covers tech trends and companies, has reporters in Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego,… Read more

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What opportunities are there at nonprofit news sites?

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Lila LaHood, director of operations and development at SF Public Press, an independent nonprofit that focuses on in-depth news. LaHood has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate SchoolRead more

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How to tell when it’s time to get out of journalism

In this week’s career chat, we talked about how to decide whether it’s time to get out of journalism. This is not a simple yes-or-no question, so we addressed its complexities and what they mean. We also asked chat participants… Read more

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How to decide whether to take a buyout?

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Larry Olmstead, vice president of organizational development at United Way Silicon Valley. He was formerly a vice president with Knight Ridder and managing editor at the Miami Herald. He also ran… Read more

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What skills are digital-first newsrooms looking for?

Booth Newspapers and MLive.com recently consolidated under the name MLive Media Group, which launched last Thursday.

MLive Media Group and Advance Central Services Michigan now operate AnnArbor.com, MLive.com and Booth Newspapers, and are taking a digital-first approach. More thanRead more

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How microgrants could help journalists be more innovative

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Christina Xu, a 2011 Knight News Challenge winner and chancellor of the Institute on Higher Awesome Studies, a nonprofit that promotes microgranting. Knight gave her $244,000 to experiment with… Read more

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Former executive editor Glenn Proctor shares advice on how to make career changes

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Glenn Proctor, former executive editor and vice president/news of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is now a trainer, career coach and author.

During the chat, Proctor talked about how he made the… Read more

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