Career resources page

Media companies | Internships | Job hunting tips | Public relations | Broadcasting | Online | Specific opportunities

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Journalism job sites

Content Exchange
Search by industry (includes PR and book publishing), state or keyword

CubReporters.org
Provides advice and links to other job sites

Free Press job boards
A compendium of journalism job links

Freelance Writing
Opportunities for paid and non-paid freelance writing jobs.

J-Jobs
Includes internships, freelance and photojournalism

JournalismJobs.com
Includes a search engine that allows you to search by medium (newspapers TV/radio, magazines/publishing, and online/other media)

JournalismNow
Find a job, post your resume or read featured articles on journalism.

Media Job Market
Search for internships and jobs in all media categories.

Poynter Career Center
Post your resume, browse jobs or get career advice in journalism.

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Media companies (newspapers and other)

Bloomberg
Business journalism

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Daily and weekly community papers

Cox Enterprises
Includes Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Austin American-Statesman, radio and television stations, Web sites

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
Sponsors copy editing, sports editing and online internships at newspapers nationwide

ESPN
Includes sports networks and Web sites

Gannett Corporation
90 newspapers, including USA Today, broadcast stations; Web sites; USA Weekend

McClatchy
32 newspapers, including Charlotte Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald, Raleigh News & Observer, Sacramento Bee, Web sites

Media General
Includes Richmond Times-Dispatch, Tampa Tribune, other newspapers and TV stations in the South, Web sites

Meredith Corp.
Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Fitness, other magazines and TV stations

Rodale
Backpacker, Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, book publishing

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Internships (see also job sites above)

Americian Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) magazine internship

Internship calendar
When to do what to land that internship

JournalismJobs internships
Searchable by location, salary (paid/unpaid), industry (including PR and online) and duration

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Offers journalism internships covering broadcasting industry issues or general journalism issues such as arrests of journalists, military press pool restrictions and access to prisons and executions

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Job hunting tips

Detroit Free Press Jobs Page
An invaluable aid for job- and internship-hunters. Includes the following:

• JobsPage Tool Kit
  An index of available resources for students
• Clips
  How to pick your best clips, etc.
• Cover letters
  
• How to take a newspaper test
• Internship calendar
  When to do what to land that internship
• Portfolios
  Present your best work -- for writers, photographers, etc.
• Resumes
  How to write your resume to get the job

Poynter Institute's Career Center

• Ask the recruiter
  Answers such question as: What is the best way to answer an ad that asks you to fax your salary requirement?

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Public relations

NationJob Network
Includes advertising and marketing

O'Dwyer's geographical listing of PR firms nationwide

PRWeek Jobs

Public Relations Society of America Job Center

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Broadcasting

Clear Channel Communications
Radio stations; includes marketing

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Jobline
Public television and radio

Current jobs
Jobs in public media

ESPN
Includes sports networks and Web sites

Lincoln Financial Media
Radio and television

Jobs and internships at National Public Radio
Located in Washington, D.C.

Jobs and internships at PBS
Located in northern Virginia

NAB Career Center
Radio and television

TV and radio jobs
Includes film and music

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Online/new media

BusinessWeek Business Exchange
Online job listings

Digital media jobs
Includes online marketing and Web design.

Disney Internet Group
Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABC.com, etc.

SunOasis online job listings (blog)

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Specific opportunities

The Atlantic magazine
Internships in Boston and Washington, D.C.

ESPN
Includes sports networks and Web sites

Fox News
Internships and jobs available.

The Nation
Internships in New York and Washington, D.C.

NBC Universal
Internships and jobs

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Site maintained by Kathy Olson, Dept. of Journalism and Communication.
Please send job-related links to kko2@lehigh.edu.