Breaking In: The JobsPage.com Guide to Newspaper Internships with everything you need to know about applications, cover letters, resumes and interviewing for media jobs
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars breaking in
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.
4 Stars Good book to read
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.
5 Stars The best damn journalism book for students period
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!).
5 Stars A Key Book for Professionals in Understanding Emerging Media
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:
“Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means” — If you’re trying to “break into” media, as Joe’s book describes, you need to be aware of the critical importance of social networking now — and how those networks form.
“Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More” — An essential book about how media voices can be marketed in this new era.
“Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Books for Profit with Print on Demand by Lightning Source and Book Marketing on Amazon.com” — The gorilla in the dining room of new media is Amazon — so you’d better know how it works.
“Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas about Religion and Culture” — If you care about the niche that’s closest to my own work — the vast implications of spirituality in American culture — then there’s not a better book than this one to understand these trends.
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