1. INTERNSHIPS LAUNCH CAREERS
- Why internships are critical
- Apply early
- Guest: Bobbi Bowman: Amazing change in an amazing age
- Be ready to move
- First internships
- Unpaid internships
- National internship programs
- Chips Quinn Scholars program
- Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internships
- Guest: Rich Holden: Consider copy editing
- Tweeners: Between internships and jobs
- Guest: Cathy Panagoulias: Business reporting has your number
- Late bloomers
- Guest: Wanda Lloyd: Mid-career entry points
- Guest: Harry Walker: Career-switcher became photojournalist
- Too many internships
- Your directory: The Editor & Publisher International Year Book
- Internship hunter’s checklist
- The JobsPage internship calendar
2. JOURNALISM SCHOOL
- Accredited J-schools
- Campus experience is not enough
- Academic internships
- Graduate school
- Guest: Lanita Pace-Hinton: Grad school: If not for you, then who?
- Grad school myths—and truths
- Find the situation that fiits you
3. THE APPLICATION
- Résumés
- Content
- Guest: Walter Middlebrook: Time management in the job search
- Cover letters
- Clips
- Campus publications
- Local newspapers
- Out-of-town newspapers
- Specialty publications
- Non-profiits
- Sell your homework
- Freelancing
- Write for the Web
- Start your own
- Presentation
- How to mount clips
- Copy-editing clips
- Photography and videography
- Art and design
- References
- Essays
- Guest: Linda Shockley: Why we care so much about your essay
- Grades
- Apply online
4. THE INTERVIEW
- Campus interviews
- Job fairs
- Guest: Melanie Hufff: Preparing for the on-campus job fair
- Beating the job-fair jitters
- Guest: Ray Marcano: Beyond the job fair
- Interviewing at the newspaper
- Guest: Kathy Pellegrino: Combining visits with vacations
- Telephone interviews
- E-mail inquiries
- Guest: Reginald Stuart: Know it all
- Follow-ups
- Pressure tactics
- Early offfers
- Exploding offfers
- The fiinalists’ pool
- Threats
- Turning down offfers
- Handling late offfers
- Coping with rejection
- Rejection letters
- Guest: John Frank: The rejection letter of all rejection letters
- Creative uses of rejection letters
6. MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR INTERNSHIP
- Preparation
- Countdown to a successful internship
- Focus
- Goals
- Professional relationships
- Personal relationships
- Ethics
- Avoiding mistakes
- Recovering from mistakes
- Feedback and criticism
- Guest: George Rede: Great expectations
- Housing
- Transportation
- Phones, computers, and automobiles
- Schedules
- Staying on track
- First day
- First week
- Mid-internship
- Final weeks
- Guest: Theola S. Labbé: Intern confiidential
7. FROM INTERNSHIP TO JOB
- Reference grooming
- Relationship building
- The transition to permanent hire
- Guest: Melissa Jordan: Is this job right for you?
- Guest: Ted Daniels: Good starts at small papers
