http://freedomforumdiversity.org Just another weblog Mon, 06 May 2013 22:46:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lauren Rabaino and Sam Sanders field questions after their panel. Photo by Joe Grimm By Joe Grimm "Workin' It," a panel at the Online News Association's 2011 conference, put four young journalists front and center to talk about how they landed jobs that make them the envy of their generation of journalists. Here's ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/09/28/young-successful-journalists-tell-ona-sleep-is-overrated/ Greg Hailey removes salvageable belongings from his car in Joplin, Mo. Hailey's vehicle was hurled some 100 yards by the May 22nd tornado which claimed the lives of more than 140 people in the town of about 50,000. Photo by Charles Pulliam Timelapse and audio slideshows produced by Charles Pulliam ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/06/06/scholar-charles-pulliam-telling-a-tornado-tale-in-joplin/ Ask the Recruiter Q. I've been a reporter at a daily newspaper for seven months and I really like my job. My bosses are great mentors and I've been learning a lot. I'm also a recent graduate. Before I graduated, I applied for a position with a start-up that appears to ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/05/19/ask-the-recruiter-leave-a-newspaper-job-for-a-startup/ People celebrate outside the White House on May 2 after the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's killing. Photo by Kevin Bowman, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License By Joe Grimm Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, in more than a hundred internship interviews, I asked journalism students how the ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/05/16/journalist-at-heart-reflects-on-bin-ladens-killing/ Ask the recruiter Q. About 16 months ago, I quit being a reporter to become a writer at a university. I want to go back to reporting, but trip over the fact that my clips are all pretty old. The ones I've written more recently are all about the work the school ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/05/12/ask-the-recruiter-dust-off-your-old-clips/ A person chats on a phone, oblivious to the people crossing Chinatown's Canal Street. They echo a photo of the Beatles, looking down from the iTunes billboard, as they crossed Abbey Road for their album by that name. By Joe Grimm One of the newest ideas to bubble up in the effervescent ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/05/09/ourchinatown-mobile-news-network-serves-its-community/ Story and photos by Joe Grimm When a Quran-burning Florida pastor traveled to Dearborn, Mich., to denounce Islam at North America's largest Muslim center, he found a fierce defender of his First Amendment rights. She is a member of the religion that Terry Jones demonizes, and she has lived in Dearborn ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/05/02/muslim-woman-leads-aclu-fight-for-quran-burning-pastors-right-to-condemn-islam/ Ask the recruiter Send your journalism career questions to Joe Grimm at joe.grimm@gmail.com Q. I’m a TV reporter in a large market. Recently, I was sent on an assignment—a news feature—at a local school. The story idea came from a newsroom manager whose relative was part of the class I was covering. When I ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/05/01/if-something-seems-fishy-in-your-newsroom-consult-a-code-of-ethics/ By Joe Grimm Write a great business thank-you note and be remembered Snail mail has been on my mind lately. One reason is that I have heard some complaints recently about the way colleagues at Michigan State University have been addressed, sometimes by people they don't know, in emails, and the offhanded way ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/04/26/write-a-great-business-thank-you-note-and-be-remembered/ Louis Aguilar at the old Wayne County Building in downtown Detroit. Commentary By Joe Grimm The first of about a hundred minority journalism conventions I attended was the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 1991. I didn't know what to expect. But I did know that a Mexican-American journalism senior at ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2011/04/18/louis-aguilars-multimedia-story-began-at-nahj-conference/