This is the insider's guide to landing -- and acing -- your newspaper internship. These are your strategies for applying, interviewing, succeeding and then using your newspaper internship to launch your career. This book is based on the www.JobsPage.com Web site, which Detroit Free Press Recruiting and Development Editor Joe Grimm created as a strategy guide to newspaper careers. Twenty recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed their advice on interviewing, choosing, negotiating these entry-level jobs and then managing newsroom policies and politics.
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Joe Grimm teaches and works with student groups as a visiting journalist at Michigan State University's School of Journalism. He was newsroom recruiter and staff development editor at the Detroit Free Press from 1990 until August, 2008. During those years he also worked with corporate recruiting teams at Gannett and Knight Ridder. He has interviewed hundreds of people, reviewed thousands of job candidates on paper and recruited at hundreds of job fairs and college campus career days. In 1993, he established an annual jobs fair in Detroit.
In 1997, he launched the JobsPage, a journalism career site, at www.jobspage.com. He spun off a journalism careers blog, "Ask the Recruiter" in 2003. It became part of Poynter Online's Career Center in 2006. He has been a regular contributor to Editor & Publisher magazine, the Newspaper Association of America's Fusion magazine and UNITY: Journalists of Color.
Grimm published two books in 2012. "Coney Detroit," co-authored with Ketherine Yung, tells the story of Detroit's signature coney island hot dogs. "The New Bullying," was written and produced by one of his journalism classes in just 101 days.
Grimm created "100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans" in 2000. He posted that guide the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and it became a timely and heavily trafficked publication.
Grimm joined the Free Press in 1983 and has been a copy editor, news editor, front-page designer, weekend editor and ombudsman. He began his newspaper career at the Oakland Press where he was a copy editor, wire editor, copy desk chief, page-one designer, regional editor and associate editor. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism and a teaching certificate from the University of Michigan.
He has been an adjunct professor at Oakland University since about 1980. He has taught media editing, copy editing, basic reporting, editorial writing and photojournalism.
Grimm is also an armchair historian. He co-authored "Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors," which was the Center for Great Lakes Culture's 2003 non-fiction book of the year. A companion book, "Songquest," came out in June, 2005. His compilation "Michigan Voices: Our State's History in the Words of the People Who lived It," has been through several printings since first being published in 1987.
Joe and his wife, Debbie, have two grown sons, Dan and Steve.
This book surprised me. Although it focuses on the internship it gives valuable information for the career changer or the later bloomer in the industry. Proving that it is never too late to move forward in journalism if this is your passion. He lists helpful organizations that can help you do just that. This is worth the buy!
Although this book is geared towards people applying for newspaper internships, it really helps ANYONE applying for internships in ANY field. Grimm expounds on the importance of getting an internship and that first-hand professional experience in their field of study. I recommend this book to anyone who desires to apply for any internship!
I have worked with Joe Grimm for years in his role as a journalism recruiter and major voice through the Poynter Institute in advising professionals about this rapidly changing profession. Through a grassroots network of post-newspaper media professionals, I helped Joe publish this new edition of his book.
As a co-founder of a grassroots, journalistic, new-media company, I wanted to add here a short list of what I would consider "must read" books for anyone diving into this field:
Reading that book was the best thing I have done for my up and coming career. It gave me practical tools to use now and some to file for later. I fully plan on recommending it to my fellow students so that they can get some of the great advice I got. I really enjoyed reading the book, the personal stories created a serious effect. Some of those bad things could happen to me (yikes!) and some of those good things could happen to me (yea!).
The book came to my house in a timely fashion. The book was very helpful and though I am not a Journalism major there were tips in the book that can help anyone who is in the communication field trying to get and survive internships. The book was an easy read and it had it humorous moments. I think anyone could benefit from this book.
this was a very boring book. it's missing pertinent information regarding the change of the newspaper industry. He should redirect some information regarding that.
