Monthly Archives: June 2007

Do newspapers want a bright future? Pay your interns!

I remember after my sophomore year of college I began to search the local Philadelphia media market for internships that paid.  Inquirer? Nope.  Courier-post? Nope again.  Philadelphia Magazine? Still Nope.  Metro? Yeah right.
To my frustration there was no local internship that paid the bills.  Speaking with some journalism students from other areas of the country […]

Ask Metafilter answers every J student’s questions

Ask Metafilter, a site where users can ask questions to be answered by the hivemind, has a great discussion around graduating as a Journalist in today’s world.
I’m a 25 year old journalism major riddled with major debt who has two years of school to go. How should I go about handling my debt situation and […]