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Since becoming the Detroit Free Press' recruiter in 1990, my work and the journalism industry have changed in unexpected ways. The transformation is rapid. One benefit is that I now learn from and help other Gannett recruiters. NewsRecruiter.com is a hub site that helps keep everything organized. It tells you what I am up to, it links to my latest work and it is a test site for new projects. My best ideas have always come from you, so please write. >more bio >resume  • Tuesdays: News Job Café • Wednesdays: J-Schools • Thursdays: Job Hacks • Fridays: Apply With Care |
The Fedora
Jul 4, 2008 12:15:00 AM A journalism student with an investigative bent walked his campus in a trench coat and a fedora. That was fine -- for the 1950s. When I saw it in the 21st Century, I had to ask whether the student was really preparing himself for the future, or romanticizing the past. "Don't worry," he said. "When you see my desk at night, you'll see my hat -- next to my iPod." Works for me. Read comment(s) or leave a comment Black and White, not Green all Over Jun 30, 2008 10:01:00 PM As if newspapers don't have enough to worry about ... On the Huffington Post, Henry Blodget wrote that young people, bored by what newspapers are doing, may one day get all worked up about it, and not in a good way. Blodgett postulates that, "As 'green business' practices take hold, a new generation of consumers will come to view the newspaper industry as a horrifically wasteful polluter that eats forests, gobbles fuel and electricity, and farts untold amounts of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere -- all to deliver information that might have been interesting yesterday." I've been thinking about that for the past couple weeks and think his prediction has merit. While the level of disdain is unpredictable, the conclusion seems to be unavoidable, even as much as publishers would like to eliminate the costs of paper and fuel. Any paper product, or physical product, can be in for the same criticism, but the short shelf life of the newspaper, its low cost and easy availability seem to make it a likely target. Shortly after Blodget's prediction appeared, I was in Washington, DoC., getting around the city on the Metro. I boarded at the Cleveland Park stop, man pushed a copy of the free Washington Express tabloid into my hands and I carried it with me for about four stops to the Metro Center stop. There, I got off the train and fell in with a few of commuters who trooped past a trash receptacle. Several shoved still-new copies of the Express into it. I snapped a picture. Their copies had been "in circulation" for 15 minutes. That kind of throwaway news consumption could one day lead to subway stop activism. Newspapers can get busy as soon as tomorrow to engage this issue on the field of public opinion. * I frequently see "Please recycle" printed on items that I am not sure can be recycled. Maybe it's just a slogan to them. Newspapers can be recycled, should be recycled and are an important segment of the recycling game. When newspaper consumption is reduced, recyclers are hurt. Their business can be jeopardized by a lack of materials or a mix that is increasingly harder to break down. Newspapers can start telling that story. * For years no, newspaper have also helped out recyclers by buying a lot of their product. Newspapers would be doing themselves a favor by stating, on the front page, how much of the paper's content is recycled. Again, let's tell how important the newspapers are to keeoing recycling operations humming. * I have a harder time with arguments about fuel usage. And publishers would just as soon get out from under those costs/ Are their stories to tell about how newspaper drivers plan their routes to conserve fuel or whether the newspaper is an efficient way to deliver? If there is, let's read it. * Finally, and quite aside from how newspapers are printed and delivered, newspapers can use their editorial pages to champion green causes and their news pages to describe environmental issues and efforts. Read comment(s) or leave a comment Freedom Forum Seeks McGruder Nominations Jun 27, 2008 1:04:28 PM A personal highlight for me last year was winning an award named for Robert G. McGruder, the guy who put me in my job as recruiter for the Free Press. (The photo I have tucked in here shows a commemorative brick I ordered for a Poynter walk project.) You can read more about Bob here. Now, it is time to seek nominees for this year's award. If you know someone who would fit the bill, please te;; the Freedom Forum's Jack Marsh. It's all right here: Nominations being accepted for 2008 McGruder Diversity Leadership Awards The Freedom Forum, in partnership
with the Associated Press Managing Editors and the American Society
of Newspaper Editors, is accepting nominations for the seventh annual
Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership. Two awards are given annually: one for newspapers with a circulation up to 75,000; one for newspapers with more than 75,000 circulation.
Jurors will be looking for
nominees who have made a significant contribution during a given year
or over a number of years toward furthering diversity in newspaper content
and in recruiting, developing and retaining journalists of color. The
deadline to make a Announcement of the winners will be made at the annual APME conference, Sept. 8-11, 2008, in Las Vegas. The recognized honorees each receive $2,500 and a leadership trophy. Who is eligible? Individuals, newsrooms or teams of journalists from U.S. daily newspapers are eligible. A nominee's newspaper must participate in the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual employment census. The awards recognize achievement
for the past 12 months or contributions over a number of years. What are the criteria?
The Diversity Leadership Awards honor an individual, a newsroom or a
team of journalists for significant leadership in diversity through:
Nominations can be made by individuals, newspapers, professional organizations, schools of journalism and others. Rules for entries: Send
a letter (of no more than three pages) outlining specific information
about the achievements and how they benefited the community, the industry
and journalists of color. The letter should include the name of the
person making the nomination and his/her signature and telephone number. You may supplement an entry with clips, but please send no more than four. Send copies no larger than 11 by 17 inches. Send material to: Jack Marsh, jmarsh@freedomforum.org, Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 Deadline: Materials must be received in the Freedom Forum’s Washington office by Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. Nominations will be judged by a committee that includes representatives of APME, ASNE, the Freedom Forum and UNITY: Journalists of Color. Read comment(s) or leave a comment |
  Breaking In 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 news recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed to the book. >Buy it
 Bringing the News Century-old postcards celebrate newsies in photographs and artwork, in groups or singly, black and white or color. The newsboys -- and girls, as well as a few adults -- are always portrayed in hard-knock ways. Feet and calves are sometimes bare. Patches cling to elbows and knees. They cover their heads with stocking caps or the floppy hats we still know as "newsboys." If there is inside you a scrappy, survive-by-your-wits newsie, you'll enjoy this collection of cards and carriers bringing news in old-fashioned ways. (Twenty-five images.) >Buy it
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