The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

Congratulations on your impending graduation! You were an excellent class and we’ll miss you.

This is a note to ask you if you’ve landed a job or internship since you filled out the graduation survey to get graduation tickets. We’d appreciate a quick email letting us know. Please reply to Gina directly: gboubion@columbia.edu. Thanks!

For those of you who still haven’t filled out the survey — or weren’t planning to because you don’t need tickets — it would be very helpful to us if you filled it out anyway! The graduation survey asks many questions, like how and where we can reach you after you move. We hear about opportunities all summer long. Here’s the link https://fs7.formsite.com/cu_jschool_careers/form100/secure_index.html

Also — our office will be open all summer, so if you need to reach out to us for advice or anything at all, we’ll be here. Good luck the next couple days, and let’s hope we get good weather.

Your career services team

Julie, Gina, Anusha, Elena and Jacqueline

Here are some more job leads, garnished with Inside Scoops, for your consideration:

Money, the nation’s largest personal finance magazine, is seeking a full-time freelance editorial assistant.
The majority (80%) of this position will be editorial work—the responsibilities include following a beat and pitching stories on that topic, writing front-of-book articles, finding real people anecdotes for features, creating graphics from data, helping senior writers with background reporting, and fact checking. The other 20% of the job will involve assisting the magazine’s managing editor with administrative tasks, such as answering his phone, making travel arrangements, coordinating his schedule, submitting expense reports, and helping with presentation preparation.

Pay is hourly—with the potential for overtime—and is commensurate with experience. We are looking for a self-starter with strong reporting, interviewing and writing skills, who is also very organized and a multi-tasker. Previous financial journalism experience (internship or coursework) is required. If interested, please submit a cover letter, resume and two clips tommagnarelli@moneymail.com.

Inside Scoop: Margaret Magnarelli will consider only applicants who can not only demonstrate interest in business reporting but also have a bunch of published business stories. Please read the magazine if you are called for an interview so you can talk about it intelligently.

Democracy Now! Multimedia News Production Fellowships: Democracy Now!, an independent daily news hour, is seeking applicants for three fellowships with monthly stipends.
Duties include shooting news events, editing news packages, working on the live broadcast, research, booking guests and writing. Applicants must have camera and editing skills, work well under deadline pressure and have some editorial experience. The ability to work well in a team and maintain a professional demeanor in all situations is required. To apply, send a cover letter, resume and portfolio to fellowship (at) democracynow (dot) org with “Production Fellowship” as the subject by June 1, 2013. For each work referenced in your portfolio, please identify the role you played in the production. No phone calls.

More info: http://www.democracynow.org/jobs#fellowships

Inside Scoop: Our grad Renee Feltz is willing to field inquiries from J-schoolers about the position.

Contact Renée Feltz, Producer, Democracy Now!, http://www.democracynow.org/, renee@democracynow.org, Desk: 646.217.7229

PC Mag Tech Writer/Reviewer
PCMag.com, part of Ziff Davis, Inc., is looking for a bright and aggressive Junior Analyst with top-notch writing and editing skills to work closely with senior editors and analysts to cover a variety of hardware product categories (including desktops, laptops, hard drives, printers, scanners, projectors, components, etc.) in the PC Labs in New York City. Ziff Davis prefers 1-2 years of professional writing/editing experience. All cover letters and resumes must be sent to editjobs@ziffdavis.com.

Inside Scoop from alum Fahmida Rashid: The more you can be enthusiastic about gadgets and technology, the better. This position is not looking for a reviewer for mobile phones or gaming consoles, but for laptops, desktops, and occasional peripherals like card readers. You will always see the latest product before or immediately after it hits the market. I wouldn’t worry too much about on camera video experience — they just mean you have to be prepared to stand in front of the camera and shoot a 5 minute (scripted) video of a product review. There is a timed writing test, but it really is about whether you can write quickly and clearly. I can be contacted at fahmida@maktubat.org with any questions.
More info: https://journalism-columbia-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php?mode=form&id=eec274790e8abe457b0535d8aca5c129&s=jobs&ss=jobs

Some opportunities for your consideration:

1. This job comes to us via Jon Lentz, MS-2009 and MA-2010, who is the managing editor of City & State, a growing political media and information company in lower Manhattan.
City&State seeks a digital editor to work in its editorial department. Candidates must have a strong digital journalism background, including social media, and a knowledge of and interest in New York City and New York State politics is important. This is a great job for a hungry journalist looking for a challenge in high-profile job. Fast-paced and creative newsroom. Please send cover letter and resume with 3 clips to editor@cityandstateny.com.

2. EW.com is looking for a production/editorial intern.
This a full-time, six-month gig, so it’s only available to graduates. Full-time students and those seeking part-time employment are ineligible. (Note: This internship is NOT part of the larger Time Inc. internship program).

As an EW.com production/editorial intern, you’ll get build and publish articles and photo galleries in our publishing tool; attend staff meetings where you’ll help plan our editorial coverage; learn about creating new online products; write for our website; monitor our online community; and help promote EW.com on various social media platforms. The pay is $10/hour.

We’re looking for someone who can start work in late June or early July and work through the end of the year. If you’re interested, please send a resume, cover letter explaining why you’re the best candidate for the job, and links to five clips that demonstrate your ability to write authoritatively about pop culture in a voice that would be at home at EW.com.

Please send these materials to Chad_Schlegel@EW.com.

3. The Dow Jones News Fund has an immediate opening in food business writing at The Food Institute, which operates a news site on food and the food industry.

Candidates for this position must have a car to drive to The Food Institute’s headquarters in Upper Saddle River, N.J. This is a 10-week position that pays $350/week. There will be a one week training program conducted by Will Sutton at New York University from May 26 - May 31, followed by the internship. The website is www.food.institute.com.

If you’re interested, send Linda Shockley a resume and single PDF with 3 to 5 clips sent via email to linda.shockley@dowjones.com.

If you want to include a brief cover letter email, address it to Linda Shockley, Deputy Director, Dow Jones News Fund.
Here is the fuller description of the internship:

Food Industry Business Writer/Social Media Reporter

• Check News Wires
• Pitch Stores
• Monitor News
• Provide Analysis
• Engage Our Audience

Duties include written data/trend analysis for the association’s daily and weekly newsletters. Ongoing projects include improving and updating the group’s web-based commodity information databases and annual studies. The position involves extensive phone contact with food industry executives. Develop ideas and material for columns or commentaries by analyzing and interpreting news, current issues, and personal experiences. Duties and skills include: Research and analyze background information related to stories in order to be able to provide complete and accurate information.

• Gather information and report on events.
• Review copy and correct errors in content, grammar, and punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines.
• Check reference materials such as books, news files, and public records in order to obtain relevant facts.
• Determine a story’s emphasis, length, and format, and organize material accordingly.
• Leverage social tools and technology to supplement our regular reporting.
• Identify fresh reporting and potential sources in breaking news situation.
• Seek out the best user-generated content and multimedia to help in online storytelling and display.
• Regularly look for fresh, interesting stories that may be developing among different online communities.
• Develop the Food Institute audience - both connecting readers with our content and engaging them in conversation.

4. There may be a last minute opening for a social media summer intern at NBC News.
Full time, minimum wage. Candidates must be credit eligible so unfortunately international students are not eligible.

If you are interested, send your resume TODAY to Jacqueline DeLaFuente in Career Services at jmd221@columbia.edu. We will forward applicants but will not have additional information for follow-up.

5. The Career Services team is looking to hire a reporter/researcher to begin immediately and work through June.
There will also be web management responsibilities including posting jobs on JobNews, editing the existing site and updating it with new items. The 30+ hours per week (flexible) position will pay $18 an hour. Some work can be done remotely. If interested, apply ASAP (by 9 a.m. Friday, May 17 would be best) by sending an e-mail to Jacqueline DeLaFuente at jmd2221@columbia.edu. Preference will be given to early applicants, so please get in touch quickly. Send along a resume and two clips. An informal “cover letter” can just be in the body of the email.

6. The Career Services team is looking for a producer who can shoot and edit video for its web site.

Assignments will be in New York City. The 20+ hours per week (flexible) position will pay $18 an hour. If interested, apply ASAP (by Monday, May 20 would be best) via e-mail to Jacqueline DeLaFuente at jmd2221@columbia.edu. Preference will be given to early applicants, so please get in touch quickly. Send along a resume and two clips. An informal “cover letter” can just be in the body of the email.

7. AAJA-DC INTERNSHIP STIPENDS: The deadline has been extended to this Friday.
AAJA-DC will award two students with $1,000 internship stipends to use for housing, transportation, and living costs during an internship this summer. To be eligible, students must be a current AAJA member and have already accepted a full-time summer internship at a news outlet. Members of the D.C. chapter may use the funds for internships located anywhere; all other members must use the funds for internships located within the chapter’s region: Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Richmond. Winners will be required to volunteer up to eight hours for chapter events and efforts. All application materials must be RECEIVED by Friday, May 17. Instructions on how to apply are at: http://bit.ly/11FDa1F

8. AAJA’s William Woo Print and Online Internship Grant
Apply at: www.aaja.org/2013-william-woo-internship-grant

9. AAJA’s BROADCAST NEWS INTERNSHIP GRANTS
Details at: www.aaja.org/2013-aaja-broadcast-news-internship-grants

10. Also from AAJA: Looking for an assistant editor for two award-winning B2B fashion magazines, Earnshaw’s and Footwear Plus.
Responsibilities include: traveling to trade shows and covering the latest trends, writing short, snappy copy as well as full-length features, careful copy-editing, establishing a strong base of fashion-industry contacts, pulling the appropriate products for trend pages and updating the magazines’ social media feeds and website.

Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree (journalism preferred) and a sharp eye for news, as well as excellent writing and editing skills. Web experience a plus. The office is based in New York City, near the East Village. The start date is May 23. Please send a cover letter, resume and TWO writing samples to greg.dutter@9threads.com.

11. South Asian Journalists Association’s 2013 Internship Fund
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59 p.m. EST, Saturday, June 1, 2013.
Start your online application by registering at www.saja.org. To complete your application, email secretary@saja.org with the following supporting materials:
1. A copy of your offer letter
2. A copy of your resume.
3. Attachments or links to 3-5 clips
4. Answers to the following questions (300 words or less each):
a. What has driven your interest in SAJA, South Asia or the diaspora?
b. How have you been involved with SAJA thus far?
c. Detail the expenses you will incur to pursue this internship.
d. Detail your financial need for this grant.
e. Detail any other sources of funding you are receiving for this internship.

Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.

Visit saja.org/internshipfund for complete details on the program.

12. There is a chance that a full time paid summer internship position may be available at MSNBC/JANSING and Co. for a politics junkie and one at CNBC for a candidate with an interest in digital marketing, marketing experience and an interest in financial news. (we aren’t sure if this is a journalism position and are inquiring further)

NOTE: The Jansing and Co. internship is 5:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. shift.

We have been asked to forward resumes to the internship coordinator for consideration.

If you are interested in either of these positions, send your resume OVERNIGHT to Jacqueline DeLaFuente in Career Services jmd2221@columbia.edu and indicate which internship you would like to be considered for. These internships require candidates to be eligible for credit so unfortunately international students do not qualify.

13. PCMag is looking to fill several positions.
Details at http://www.ziffdavis.com/about-us/careers/

14. Real Simple is looking for a Social Media Editor.
Apply at https://careers.timewarner.com/tgwebhost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=391&siteid=36&jobid=654886

15. May 15 is the deadline to apply for the research assistant job at Columbia University’s Global Center in Mumbai. Details at JobNews.

16. From a Columbia University grad: Punched in the Head Productions, Inc. is looking to fill a fashion researcher/reporter position.
Documentary production seeks researcher/reporter who knows the fashion world inside and out in. Must be deeply conversant in current trends & styles, fashion history, significant issues / matters, and have thorough awareness of major fashion events occurring in New York City and around the world in June & July. Researcher will help guide creative team during pre-production as each episode’s story lines are crafted. Minimum 5 years reporting or writing for fashion blogs or magazines. Can be f/t or p/t, with flexibility of working off-site. Immediate start. All interested candidates should submit resumes to punchedjobs@gmail.com.

Hope you are doing well in the home stretch. Here are some events you may want to attend in the next few days:

1) Monday, May 13: MEET THE MEDIA: Nilay Patel
The managing editor for The Verge, Nilay Patel, will talk about the kind of jobs that are available at the site, what it is like to work in this business and the current state of the industry. Monday, May 13, Noon – 1 p.m. Room 607B.

2) Friday, May 10: The Declassification Engine: Conference on the Computational Analysis of Official Secrecy.
Historians, journalists, legal scholars, statisticians, and computer scientists are meeting at Columbia University to consider how computational methods can illuminate the broad patterns of official secrecy and accelerate the declassification process. For more information and registration: http://www.declassification-engine.org/index.py?section=conference. Friday, May 10, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), School of Journalism (Pulitzer Building).

We hope you continue to scan JobNews for a variety of internship and job opportunities.

Here’s a selection:

1) Fox News Junior Reporters Program: Deadline - Apply by this Thursday.
The Junior Reporter is a two-year training program, designed to build a pipeline for the next generation of talented broadcast journalists. More details at http://www.foxnews.com/junior-reporters

2) Fast Company Digital is hiring short-form writers with a passion for business and technology.
This is a remote-work position; applicants need not live in New York City. The ideal applicant will be comfortable writing short, accurate news items in rhythm with the pace of the social web. Think you might apply? You should:

• Be able to provide us with links to your past work.
• Be able to provide us with at least two professional references who can speak to the quality of your work as a journalist
• Have a proven track record of using your social media accounts to find, improve, and distribute your stories
• Have a strong interest in business and technology news
• Be committed to accuracy in your reporting
• Feel comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, where you will be expected to meet short deadlines
• Enjoy working both independently and with others as a team
• Be a nice person. Our work environment — both in the office and in our virtual workspaces — is pretty friendly and cooperative

Please email your C.V. and a cover letter to Anjali Mullany, News Editor: amullany[at]fastcompany[dot]com.

3) Slate is looking for an intern who can write for this web site: roadshow.slate.com and help with publishing content on it.
The intern will be paid $15 an hour and can start working in early June. If interested, please send your resume and cover letter to Casey Audino, director, ad innovations, Slate Magazine at casey.audino@slate.com.

4) Columbia Global Center in Mumbai is looking to hire a research Assistant/Associate.
Apply at JobNews. Deadline - May 15.
This research position is for a Columbia Journalism School graduate who would work on issues and research questions relating to a global free press, largely emanating from President Lee Bollinger’s 2010 book entitled “Uninhibited, Robust and Wide Open - A Free Press for a Global Society.” This position is envisaged to be a multi-year appointment, with the first six months on probation and on successful completion, extended on an yearly basis.

Qualifications: M.A/M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and 2-3 years of work experience.

5) Entrepreneur.com is looking for freelance journalists to contribute short news pieces for its audience of entrepreneurs and small-business owners.
These stories require at least one source and need to be turned around quickly, and contributors are paid per story. If we enjoy working together, you would be able to write several stories a week. Entrepreneur.com is the website of national business magazine Entrepreneur. It reaches 6-8 million unique visitors a month. Please email Jenna Goudreau at jgoudreau@entrepreneur.com with a brief summary of your background, relevant clips and at least two ideas for news stories.

6) Upcoming internship opportunity at Fast Company digital.
They are seeking a 6-month editorial intern for the online department. It’s a full-time, paid internship in NYC. Start dates are flexible but they would like someone to begin by June 1, and interns will need to do a training day before May 17th. They are looking to fill the position very quickly, so apply ASAP. Deadline for applications is May 13: http://www.fastcompany.com/3009418/fast-company-is-seeking-an-editorial-intern. Application needs current resume, short cover letter, and up to 3 relevant clips. Contact Colin Weatherby: cweatherby@fastcompany.com.

7) Editorial Fellowship, HuffPost Religion (AOL)
HuffPost Religion is hiring a Fellow to join the team working on its religion site and social media accounts. The Fellow will be integrated into the team with opportunities to learn and grow professionally in a fast-paced, intelligent, fun and slightly obsessed environment. The fellowship usually lasts four to six months and is a paid program that is used to identify potential full-time hires — in other words, fellows are considered to be in training from the moment they begin. Apply on JobNews: http://bit.ly/10q6vhV.

We hope you are enjoying the good weather but still keeping an eye on JobNews!

Here are some events we’ve organized that you should not miss:

1) Wednesday, May 8: WORKSHOP: Social Media Tips You Should Know Before You Graduate
What’s new in social media and why you need to pay attention – no matter where you work. Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer, Columbia University, talks to graduating students about social media habits you should be acquiring as well as five new LinkedIn tips and tricks and Facebook’s latest changes and how they affect you. World Room, Noon- 1:30 p.m.

Please note: A film crew will be filming a portion of this event so if you’d prefer not to be filmed, please send me an e-mail at as1698@columbia.edu.

2) Friday, May 10: FREELANCE SERIES: The Freelance Series: Prof. Duy Linh Tu on How to Start A Business
You know he can teach, now hear him tell you how he started a successful media business. He’ll share his challenges, pitfalls, mistakes and successes, and help you ask yourself the hard questions before you launch a journalism/multimedia/documentary production business. Columbia professor of new media journalism and independent film producer, Duy will give you the business nuts-and-bolts, including taxes, whether you need a business plan, whether to incorporate, how to deal with contracts, how to build your business and other challenges that confound most writers and artists who want to start a freelance business. Friday, May 10 from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in room 601B.

3) Monday, May 13: MEET THE MEDIA: Nilay Patel
The managing editor for The Verge, Nilay Patel, will talk about the kind of jobs that are available at the site, what it is like to work in this business and the current state of the industry. Room 607B, Noon – 1 p.m.

Students, some jobs for your consideration:

1. The Atlantic Wire is hiring ASAP for two positions:
Night editor: A great stepping stone gig with high visibility and freedom, this is a slot for the curious news hound who can run The Atlantic Wire from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. EST, Sunday through Thursday nights. Responsible for 4 breaking news posts per night, across all areas of interest — global, national, politics, culture, tech, and beyond. High curiosity, intellectual honesty, and social savvy are musts. Good example of what the shift looks like here, from our dearly departing Adam Clark Estes: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/authors/adam-clark-estes/

Late-night editor: Good for a true night owl, or anyone on the West Coast or further that-a-way. Responsible for 4 breaking news posts per night, 11 p.m.-3 a.m. EST, Sunday thru Thursday nights. Interest in international news and cable news/media is ideal.

Candidates for these positions should already have breaking news/hard news experience, and previous wire experience would be a plus. To apply, send a cover letter email with links to your online portfolio to Matt Sullivan, Deputy Editor, The Atlantic Wire, at mattsullivan123@gmail.com.

2. Editor, Santa Fe Reporter
The award-winning Santa Fe Reporter seeks an editor-in-chief who’s innovative, irascible and crazy enough to chase the stories no one else will. About us: The Reporter has built a legacy on exposing corruption and routinely excelling at both serious investigative reporting and incisive arts and culture coverage. With a young, enthusiastic, talented staff of full-timers and freelancers, we’re the beating heart of an artistically rich city that can be at once gorgeous and gritty, creative and critical, and anything but ordinary. We piss off public officials, and we win awards. About you: Ideally, you have several years of reporting and editing experience in both news and culture. You’re as comfortable editing a video as you are writing a great headline, managing a budget, dreaming up a new special issue, penning the occasional cover story and enforcing deadlines. You’re a social-media maven who’s good with commas; you’re a news junkie with an eye for great design. You’re driven and self-directed, but most of all, you have a deep passion for journalism’s critical role in a free society. If interested, please send a cover letter, resume and 2-3 clips to current editor Alexa Schirtzinger, J-’08, at editor@sfreporter.com. No phone calls, please.

3. Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C. has a couple of jobs open: One is a full-time digital reporter position; hours will probably be 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. The other two openings are freelance. One is as a digital reporter, the other is as a radio show producer. Inside scoop: We’ve got a small staff and freelance positions usually lead to steady gigs either here or upstairs at the local news station WTOP. The point person is our program director Lisa Wolfe, lwolfe@federalnewsradio.com. You can apply here: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/careers. This lead thanks to Emily Kopp J-’01. (Morning co-host at FNR). Emily is happy to field questions from J-Schoolers about these positions.

4. CBS Local Radio in NYC
This lead comes to us thanks to Erik Parker, MA-Politics, 2010, who is off to make his own documentary. Erik is willing to advise J-School applicants. parkererikg@gmail.com. http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=986a5938897dde34&q=digital+music&l=10001&tk=17o8qfkvp069g0e1&from=ja&alid=595482c1b5d6abb1&utm_source=jobseeker_emails&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=job_alerts

Inside Scoop from Erik: “While this description asks for someone with 5-plus years, I think they are going to step it down to Associate Producer, which means people with much less experience can apply. They do want someone who knows the “urban” (read: hip-hop/R&B) world and has written about the genre. There is also an element of video production that goes into the job but it is primarily a job for a writer who has experience in the urban realm. If anyone from the J-School wishes to apply they should do so soon at the above link. Look at the stories on this page for homework, if you apply.
http://news.radio.com. Also, check out the video on this page for more familiarity:
http://radio.com/shows/

Radio.com is the main destination for the music content of CBS Local, the content produced by the music team is syndicated across all CBS Local online platforms. That includes radio station sites. For the CBS-urban radio station sites, you should familiarize yourself with this one: http://v103.cbslocal.com/

Reminder: Please consult JobNews and Career Services deadline calendar. New gigs posted 24/7.

The Freelance Series: How to brand yourself and get publications to come to you: Contently.
Tuesday, April 30, Noon - 1 p.m. Lecture Hall; portfolio reviews in Career Services - Anusha Shrivastava’s office.

Shane Snow, a digital media grad from 2010, and co-founder of Contently, will teach you what he knows about creating a brand, establishing a consistent, user-friendly and attractive web footprint. This class is a must for those of you who are thinking about freelancing. Shane will talk about building a freelance career – from breaking through the noise when pitching editors, to managing client invoicing and getting paid.

Contently connects freelance journalists with over 50 publishers including ELLE and American Express Publishing. This talk is part of our annual spring series on the life, business and art of freelancing.

Please visit Contently.com/journalists and build a portfolio (it’s quick!) of your work, then bring a laptop (or just the URL — the Contently folks will have a couple iPads) to show it on. If you have a separate portfolio website, bring that. Contently’s team, which looks at hundreds of journalists’ portfolios every week, will give suggestions and critiques to help you put your best foot forward.

The Freelance Series: An editor’s point of view. The Village Voice.
Wednesday. May 1 from Noon - 1:30 p.m. in room 607B.
Will Bourne, editor of The Village Voice, will talk to students about how to pitch an editor. Bourne has been the editor of The Village Voice since November 2012. He was previously an editor at large for Inc. magazine, executive editor at Fast Company, and senior editor at Fortune. He was also a freelance writer for 17 years at national magazines including Esquire, Harper’s, Men’s Journal, The New York Times and others. Arrive early to get a seat.

BLOOMBERG/FALL INTERNSHIPS (print)
May 2013 graduates — you qualify for fall positions but not for subsequent internship cycles. If you already applied for summer and didn’t make it, that does not disqualify from being considered so go ahead and apply again. No reason not to give it another shot. The posting should be up on the Bloomberg website for just another few days but apply IMMEDIATELY.

New Opportunity: WomensHealthMag.com/paid Summer Internship
We are currently seeking Digital Editorial Interns to work on our branded site, WomensHealthMag.com. Interns will get a complete online journalism experience, with tasks that include both writing and production.

• WRITING: You’ll write for our daily news feed, themed blogs, and feature centers on an as-needed basis. We may also ask you to contribute to our newsletter initiative, and social media programs. Lots of opportunities for clips and bylines.
• PRODUCTION: You’ll learn how to work on the web. That involves uploading stories from the magazine; contributing to the creation of slideshows and articles; learning the basics of SEO and then implementing your new web skills on existing and future stories; adding related links to our syndicated content; and building sliders and modules for content promotion.
• ADDITIONAL TASKS: You might also assist in video production, proofreading, mailings and other administrative tasks on an as-needed basis. // Knowledge of HTML, Drupal, WordPress, and Photoshop is a bonus. Knowledge of AP Style and attention to detail is required. // The ideal candidate should be enthusiastic and have the ability to juggle multiple projects under tight deadlines. We are looking for someone that is proactive and takes initiative on problem-solving issues. This person should be highly organized, detail-oriented, an excellent communicator and team player.

The summer internship program runs from mid-May through mid-August and is paid. We’re flexible with dates, but we’re looking for a commitment of at least three days a week. Interested? Send a cover letter, resume, and three writing samples to Assistant Managing Editor Vera Sizensky at Vera.Sizensky@rodale.com.

NOTE: Interns must be eligible for credit so unfortunately international students do not qualify.

Attend an Open Session with Maria Popova, founder of BrainPickings.com from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the World Room.

Please join us for a special session with Maria Popova, the 28-year-old founder of the amazingly influential site BrainPickings.com. The New York Times recently called Popova “the mastermind of one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet” and Fast Company named her one of the 100 most creative people in business, proclaiming that “her blog and Twitter feed is read by the Who’s Who of the media, marketing, and ad worlds.”

BrainPickings.com is an amazing combination of curation and new journalism on science, art and culture, all part of a perpetual pursuit of what she calls “interestingness.” It also offers a new model of journalistic and critical entrepreneurship. Maria is very outspoken about the future of journalism and culture criticism, as well as curation and source crediting (she is the inventor of the “Curators Code). She runs her empire of interestingness – a blog with 500,000+ visitors a month, a newsletter with over 150,000 subscribers and a Twitter feed with over 325,000 followers – from a little apartment in Brooklyn.

Here’s a link to the recent Times piece about her: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/maria-popova-has-some-big-ideas.html?pagewanted=all

We will talk about online journalism and curation, alternative career tracks, and whatever else you want to ask Maria – who, I can assure you, is one of the most diverse and provocative characters you’ll ever meet. (When she was my intern as an undergrad at Penn, she was doing journalistic research for me, working at an ad agency, training for professional bodybuilding competitions and still immersed in the politics of her native Bulgaria.)

This session is open to all J-School students and faculty. 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. in the World Room. No RSVP is necessary.

A few updates from Career Services:

1. If you’re interested alternative weeklies, the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies takes place in Miami this June. The organization offers a $500 to $1,000 grant to cover expenses of attending if you qualify for one of three categories. Last year one of our M.A. Politics students got it and attended. From our experience the strongest candidates for this scholarship have reporting and writing internships or fellowships already set up for summer and wish to attend the AAN conference to make contacts and break into alt-weeklies. The annual AAN conferences are major networking opportunities in which you’ll meet editors from across the country. The deadline to apply is May 22. Here’s the link: http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/aan-announces-scholarships-and-grants-for-2013-annual-convention-in-miami/Article?oid=7039919.

2. Tablet magazine is hiring a paid summer editorial intern. Here’s what they say: If you have experience in journalism and are familiar with the landscape of American Jewish life, we’d love to hear from you. Interns will contribute blog posts and full features as well as assist the editorial staff with research and administrative tasks. The summer internship is five days a week, from Memorial Day through Labor Day, at our office in New York City. To apply, please email a resume, cover letter, and three clips to Stephanie Butnick, at sbutnick@tabletmag.com, by May 5. If you met senior writer Leil Leibovitz at the Career Expo, you might want to mention it in your cover letter.

3. The Freelance Series: How to brand yourself and get publications to come to you: Contently, Tues. April 30 from noon - 1:30 p.m. in room TBA.
Shane Snow, a digital media grad from 2010, and co-founder of Contently, will teach you what he knows about creating a brand, establishing a consistent, user-friendly and attractive web footprint. This class is a must for those of you who are thinking about freelancing. Shane will talk about building a freelance career – from breaking through the noise when pitching editors, to managing client invoicing and getting paid. Shane will also review Contently portfolios. There are still slots left if you’d like Shane to review your portfolio. To claim a slot, please email Anusha Shrivastava at as1698@columbia.edu.

We have several events over the next few days you should try to attend.

1) Meet the Media: Agence France Press – all platforms. Tomorrow, Wednesday. April 24. Session 12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. (note time change) Room 607B
Multimedia Desk Chief Magan Crane and North American and Video Editor Michelle Hoffman will talk about the AFP operation all over the world across all platforms, their multimedia and video journalism internships in Washington, D.C. and other opportunities.

Students who registered in advance have individual meetings scheduled with these editors. Contact Career Services Program Administrator Jacqueline DeLaFuente with questions about the interview schedule. jmd2221@columbia.edu.

2) The Freelance Series: How to brand yourself and get publications to come to you: Contently, Tues. April 30 from noon - 1:30 p.m. in room TBA
Shane Snow, a digital media grad from 2010, and co-founder of Contently, will teach you what he knows about creating a brand, establishing a consistent, user-friendly and attractive web footprint. This class is a must for those of you who are thinking about freelancing. Shane will talk about building a freelance career – from breaking through the noise when pitching editors, to managing client invoicing and getting paid. Contently connects freelance journalists with over 50 publishers including Elle and American Express Publishing. This talk is part of our annual spring series on the life, business and art of freelancing. If you would like to have your Contently portfolio reviewed, please send an e-mail to Anusha Shrivastava at as1698@columbia.edu.

3) The Freelance Series: An editor’s point of view. The Villlage Voice, Wed. May 1 from noon - 1:30 p.m.. in room 607B.
Will Bourne, editor of The Villlage Voice, will talk to students about how to pitch an editor. Bourne has been the editor of The Village Voice since November 2012. He was previously an editor at large for Inc. magazine, executive editor at Fast Company, and senior editor at Fortune. He was also a freelance writer for 17 years at national magazines including Esquire, Harper’s, Men’s Journal, The New York Times and others.

4) Save-the-date: May 8. Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer of Columbia University. Social Media Stuff You Should Know Before You Graduate: What’s new in social media and why you need to pay attention – no matter where you end up working. Topics include:

* Five new LinkedIn tips and tricks

* Facebook’s latest changes and how they affect you (you can’t miss this

part!)

* New social-media habits you should be getting

* Things you can start doing right away at a new job

* Beyond job-hunting: Career management via social media

Here is a listing for a terrific full-time job with benefits at Talking Points Memo in New York City.

TPM is hiring a News Writer to work in our New York City office. This is an entry level, junior editorial position writing primarily for TPM´s LiveWire. News Writers are the people who come in each day, scan the news, look for great TPM stories, take rapid fire assignments, write them up tight and fast and then either find ways to advance those stories or look for other stories to jump on top of and do the same thing with. It´s very fast paced and very reactive to the news.

See link for more info: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/04/_this_is_an_entry.php

Students — Schedule appointments with AFP and check out these new opportunities. Please check JobNews — new positions posted daily.

Columbia J-school/DuPont Awards
Inside Scoop: This six-month position could be an excellent opportunity for an ongoing part time student, or 2013 graduate who needs a six-month position as a cushion with benefits while launching a freelance career….

The School’s prestigious duPont Awards is looking for a Temporary Program Administrator starting June 3 through the end of November 2013. Job responsibilities include assisting the director in all aspects of the award; helping the reporters, filmmakers and producers enter for an award through a new online system, tracking the screening/judging process, helping screeners and judges access material for the awards, helping organize day-long meetings with judges, panel discussions, screenings and other administrative tasks including processing payments and answering the phone. Responsible, detail-oriented person with strong communication skills and a deep interest and appreciation for visual storytelling preferred. Some professional experience with broadcast journalism, documentary or digital reporting preferred.

*Candidate must commit to working the full six months. Regular hours except for a few evening events and weekends. Benefits included. www.dupontawards.org. DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, April 26. Please send resumes, references, and short cover letter to: Abi Wright: awright@columbia.edu. Subject heading in Email: PROGRAM ADMIN JOB

MEET THE MEDIA: Agence France Press, Wednesday April 24, Noon-1 p.m., Room 607B
***Session followed by scheduled appointments.
Multimedia Desk Chief Magan Crane and North American and Video Editor Michelle Hoffman will be here to talk about the AFP operation across all platforms and also interview candidates for their multimedia and video journalism internships in Washington, D.C. All details are on JobNews for these positions — apply immediately if interested. Following their talk, both Magan and Michelle will interview candidates for their respective internship positions and will also discuss other opportunities at AFP including freelance gigs domestically and internationally. *** If you are interested in being interviewed for the internships or meeting with them to discuss other opportunities on Wednesday, please send an email to Career Services Program Coordinator Jacqueline DeLaFuente by Tuesday at noon: jmd2221@columbia.edu.

The Huffington Post
Huffington Post has just launched a new post graduate paid four-month fellowship program. Details on JobNews. Rolling deadline but apply now. Inside Scoop: The new program will include more formal training, and the ultimate hope is to convert people full time after the four-month time frame. The Huffington Post is “looking for people who are incredibly webby — obsessed with the Internet and sites like Gawker, reddit, Buzzfeed, etc. They are looking at candidates who want to be editors — not reporters, folks who are interested in aggregating content and writing content and headlines on deadline, (8-10 pieces a day) and driving social media conversation. Pay is $10/hour. International students will be considered.

We just heard of three job opportunities for your consideration:

1. The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital has two reporter openings. Editor Steve Gunn is a J-School grad and sends this along: “Are you a disciple of hard news? Do you believe in the power of enterprise journalism? Can you report and write your way onto the home page or front page again and again? Are you addicted to the hard work, pressure and humor born daily in a newsroom? Can you handle a tough beat? And, do you want to work in Maryland’s state capital, a historic and newsy city on the Chesapeake Bay that lives and breathes politics, environmental issues and a whole lot more? Then you’re ready for The (Annapolis) Capital and our website, www.capitalgazette.com. We’re a daily newspaper with strong readership and lots of opportunity. And we’ve got competition from the big dogs in Baltimore and Washington, which makes it all the more fun. Right now, we have two reporter openings. Send your resume, 3-5 clips (PDFs or links) and salary requirements to reporters@capgaznews.com. Questions? Contact assistant editor Rob Hiaasen at rhiaasen@capgaznews.com or editor Steve Gunn at sgunn@capgaznews.com.”

2. Forbes in NYC is looking for paid intern to work on the magazine/website’s wealth team. We heard about this from 2010 J-School grad Clare O’Connor, an international student who started as an intern and got sponsored. Last week she was promoted to oversee retail/consumer coverage. This is the internship description: “Forbes is looking to hire an inquisitive, investigative intern/reporter to work in Manhattan for the summer to help cover the world’s wealthiest people. There is also an opportunity to extend one’s internship through the Fall. That person will be an integral part of the team that compiles and produces one of our most popular issues, the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people. The ideal candidate will have an interest in covering successful entrepreneurs and business people, strong analytical and reporting skills and be comfortable with financial figures. Experience searching through SEC documents, understanding of basic financial terms and ability to value companies is a plus, given that the main responsibility will be tracking information on these wealthy people and valuing their fortunes. The job will require a lot of phone and email interviewing as well as document research and some database management. You will be expected to write 100-word bios on each person and hopefully come up with blogs, web features and short magazine stories.” Clare says the internship will appeal to candidates who are particularly numerate and capable researchers. To apply, send your resume to Luisa Kroll at lkroll@forbes.com.

3. There is a chance that several online producer and online assistant producer positions may be opening up at Al Jazeera English based in Doha. These are web production and writing jobs in the newsroom, not field producer positions. For the producer position, a minimum of two years of experience in a broadcast or online news organization is required, preferably covering daily and breaking international news. Strong editorial and technical background and familiarity with various CMS tools, social media, interactive and multimedia digital web skills required. The assistant producer positions require less experience but some professional newsroom experience and tech skills required. These positions are six month renewable contracts which can last several years. Minimum one year commitment required. If you would like to be considered, please send resume, cover letter and 3 links or website to aljazdigi@gmail.com. If the positions open up, applications will be fully reviewed and selected candidates will be notified. Career Services will not have additional details beyond this note but know J-school applicants will be given priority review. APPLY IMMEDIATELY.

4. In other matters, please check JobNews for other opportunities. If you want to talk to one of us in Careers about your job hunt, we are here and available!

We hope your job search is going well. Here are a few events and pointers that may help you:

1) Meet the Media: PolicyMic
When: April 17, Noon – 1 p.m.
Venue: 607B
Caira Connor, community manager, will talk about PolicyMic, a news and politics website geared toward millennials. It is “the fastest growing news and discussion platform with over 5 million monthly unique visitors” according to the Institute of Politics at Harvard. Conner will also discuss paid freelance and internship opportunities.

2) Meet the Media: Agence France Press
When: April 24, Noon – 1 p.m.
Venue: 607B
Magan Crane and Michelle Hoffman will be here to talk about the AFP operation across all platforms and also interview candidates for their multimedia and video journalism internships in Washington. All details are on JobNews for these positions – apply immediately, well in advance of their visit. Following their visit, both Magan and Michelle will interview candidates for their respective internship positions. They will also discuss other opportunities at AFP, including freelance gigs.

If you are interested in being interviewed for the internships on April 24, please send an email to Jacqueline DeLaFunte at jmd2221@columbia.edu by 10 a.m. on April 22.

Magan Crane is currently the Multimedia Desk Chief at Agence France-Presse in Washington. The multimedia team, along with desks in London and Hong Kong, links together the best of AFP content, including text, photos, videos and graphics for Internet clients. In addition, their team uses AFPTV production to create videos for the web. They also edit stories for mobile phones, public screens, tablet applications and manage AFP’s official social media accounts. Before moving to the multimedia service, Magan worked for several years as Duty Editor on the English Desk, working with senior editors to coordinate coverage of North and South America for an international audience. At AFP she has worked on a range of high profile stories from four U.S. presidential elections to the September 11 attacks to the death of Michael Jackson and a handful of Latin American coups. Prior to coming to AFP she was a newspaper reporter in Annapolis, Md. She is a 1998 graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and earned a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 1994.

Michelle Hoffman is the North American editor of AFPTV based in Washington, D.C., a text reporter who is now immersed in video. She has spent the last nine years with AFP, split equally between print and video and served as the U.K. correspondent. Michelle has also written for The Economist, Newsweek and other magazines.

3) Marilyn Laurie Scholarship Fund Deadline:
The deadline for the Marilyn Laurie Scholarship fund has been extended to May 1. This scholarship is for students who accept low-paid post-graduate internships or fellowships and have a high level of student debt. For details on how to apply, go to JobNews.

4) Research position at the Columbia Global Center in Mumbai:
Research Assistant/Associate, Columbia Global Centers, South Asia, based in Mumbai, India. Apply at JobNews.

This research position is for a Columbia Journalism School Graduate who would work on issues and research questions relating to a global free press, largely emanating from President Lee Bollinger’s 2010 book entitled “Uninhibited, Robust and Wide Open - A Free Press for a Global Society.” This position is envisaged to be a multi-year appointment, with the first six months on probation and on successful completion, extended on an yearly basis.

Qualifications: M.A/M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and 2-3 years of work experience.

5) Architectural Record Summer Editorial Internship
Architectural Record magazine is looking for a full-time, paid summer editorial intern. (The internship is open to recent graduates including international students on OPT). Most of the duties are administrative, including obtaining photography, maintaining databases, helping put together presentations and awards submissions, doing research and helping editors with any projects as they arise. This is not a writing internship, although opportunities to write exist. Strong written and spoken communication skills are required, as are good organizational and multi-tasking skills. An interest in/knowledge of architecture and/or design is a plus. This is a great opportunity to work closely with an experienced editorial team for a magazine with a 100+ year history. To apply: Please send a brief cover letter, resume, and clips to: Beth Broome (Managing Editor) at elisabeth_broome@mcgraw-hill.com.

DEADLINE: Apply immediately.

J-schoolers may contact Laura Raskin, News Editor (J-2010 M.A. Arts and Culture) for insight on the internship and copy her with your materials. laura.raskin@gmail.com.

Join Career Services for MEET THE MEDIA with Bob Hofler, LA based Senior editor at Variety.

Bob will discuss Variety, covering the entertainment industry and breaking into the field. Hofler is recruiting freelancers to cover events in New York for Variety´s Vpage which covers parties, premieres, red carpets and fundraisers for this entertainment publication. The paper pays $50 for short write-ups (100 to 500 words) on these events and reporters get bylines. To see examples of these items, go to Variety.com, click on SCENE and go to VPAGE. Variety is also looking for young people in New York City to keep the newspaper updated on trends and news items on the cultural scene as well as candidates for a six month internship starting in July. Holfer has been a senior editor at Variety in Los Angeles since 2005. He was previously the newspaper´s theater reporter in New York City for five years. Before that, he was the managing editor of Buzz magazine, executive editor of Us magazine, and entertainment editor of Life magazine. His books include “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson,” “Party Animals” and “Variety´s `The Movie That Changed My Life´.” Hofler will also talk generally about covering arts and entertainment, breaking into the business and publishing your book ideas. Please bring your resume and any short clips that show your ability to weave narrative and quotes. If you are interested in signing up for an interview with Hofler, please let Elena Cabral know at ecabral@columbia.edu and these will be scheduled from about 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. after Hofler´s group talk.

The Innovation Showcase is a public open house event where publications and the public are invited to the school to see and experience the original and innovative reporting, publishing and presentation work being done at the school, and we want *your* work to be a part of it.

The application is minimal: ~ 200 words describing your piece and how it is innovative, a link to the work (details below), and a faculty contact, if applicable. Works-in-progress are eligible for inclusion; just include a short description of how the final work will differ from the material you’re submitting on Monday. The deadline is Monday, April 15.

The showcase will be held on May 17 & 18, and master’s projects, class projects, and pieces developed at school-related events are all welcome. We are looking for a range of media: video, audio, text, photo and visualization. We want to have a little bit of everything, so don’t worry that your piece isn’t “innovative” enough: we’re ready to be convinced! Group and individual work is eligible, and students may submit as many pieces as they like.

Selected works will be installed in the lobby, Stabile Center, and World room between 9am and 5pm on Friday, May 17th, with an evening preview and reception for the Journalism School community from 5-7pm. The public open hours will run from noon - 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 18. Applicants must be available to install and attend their work during these times.

If you have any questions, sem2196@columbia.edu.

Complete application Instructions
All applications materials must be submitted in a single email to cujinnovationshowcase@gmail.com no later than midnight on Monday, April 15nd. Each application must include:

The work to be considered. All text should be attached to the email as a pdf, while video and audio must be submitted as links to a streaming audio or video service. Photographs should be submitted as a link to a single album on a photo-sharing site, and must include captions. All work must be fully credited.

• A 200-word summary of the piece.
• A 200-word description of what makes it the project innovative, and how you intend to present or install it. Will you design an produce a printed booklet? Create a poster or other graphical piece? Mount a series of photographs? Consideration will be given to creatively presented pieces. Please note, however, that acceptance of the work does not guarantee a particular display space or format; final display decisions will be determined by the review committee. All applicants agree to abide by the committee´s decision in this regard, or the project´s acceptance may be rescinded.
• If the submitted work is not finalized: Include a 200-word description of additional reporting, edits or enhancements you would like to make to the work, if you do not consider it finalized or complete. Pieces may be accepted conditionally on this basis as long as all additional work will be completed by Monday, April 29, at which point a final decision will be rendered.
• Whether you would be willing to have only a portion of the work presented, at the suggestion of the review committee.
• A faculty contact, if applicable.

Applications will be reviewed by members of the full and part time faculty; applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Monday, April 22nd. If you have any questions about the submission process or requirements, please email sem2196@columbia.edu.

SPJ presents Crai Bower “From Pitch to Paycheck - The Reality of Living the Dream as a Travel Writer on Monday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 6p.m. in the Stabile Student Center. Crai Bower contributes scores of articles and photographs annually to more than 30 publications and online outlets including Alaska Airlines, Journey, and Inspirato magazines, The Toronto Star, Travel + Leisure Digital, and MSN Travel, where he is also the lead travel blogger. He frequently speaks throughout North America at travel-related conferences. His book of humor, “Farts: A Spotter´s Guide,” has sold over 250,000 copies
and been translated into five languages. He contributed four chapters to Fodor´s “Vancouver-Victoria” (2010) and is profiled in the bestselling photography book, “Seattle 100: Portrait of a City - Voices that Matter.” He is the television travel commentator for KCPQ-13 and is widely syndicated on Tribune Broadcasting.

Last April, Crai received an Outstanding Lifestyle Feature Award from the American Society of Journalists & Authors, his fourth national writing accolade in as many years. Learn more about Crai at www.FlowingStreamWriting.net and on Twitter @craisbower.

The Cordova Times in Cordova, Alaska, is looking for a reporter who is up for the adventure in a town small enough to get around on a bike. The ideal candidate is interested in the issues there – the fisheries industry, environmental science, schools, city government – and wants to write magazine-style feature and news writing. The paper is offering free lodging, meals and roundtrip airfare. International students can go to Alaska on their OPT. Class of 2012 grad Diane Jeantet, a digital media concentrator and French national, got this internship last year. Many of her stories were picked up by the AP and published in papers across Alaska. Diane had the freedom, and took the initiative, to pursue larger stories such as Arctic exploratory drilling, Alaska commercial fishing, and statewide election issues and quirky regional stories including a feature on survivors of a fishing boat accident that caught on fire and sank.

Here’s what the editor Jennifer Gibbons says:

The Cordova Times is published weekly in print and online. The full-color print edition ranges from 16-24 pages, covering a variety of topics from city government to commercial fishing industry news to schools to community events. The primary audience is the community we serve directly, however, our stories are picked up frequently at the state level and in the northwestern US region. You will work to identify news opportunities, cultivate local contributors when appropriate and research and write news and features yourself weekly. You will also be working on research for a small longer term project. Along with the editor/publisher, the paper’s small professional team includes an award-winning visual designer, veteran news reporter, news web manager, and seasoned advertising director all of whom are experienced journalism professionals.

This internship is right for a motivated and responsible person who seeks an adventurous experience in a rural Alaskan town. It is suitable for someone who is good with people, likes small towns, the outdoors and a rustic lifestyle. Depending on the stories you cover, your job may involve hiking, getting out on boats and interaction with the outdoors. It is expected that you will work independently and meet deadlines while also getting to know the place and the town as a member of the community. It is not suitable for someone seeking a corporate, urban experience – or an aggressive investigative approach.

Gibbons is looking for a graduate level student who is a good writer, passionate about story telling, independent news and small town life. Compensation for this internship includes housing and meals at a local lodge plus round-trip airfare. (Students with compelling financial need/student loan indebtedness might also consider applying for the Laurie Scholarship, details on JobNews.)

To apply, email a cover letter, resume, 3 references and two writing samples or links to your work online to: editor@thecordovatimes.com.

Address cover letter to:
Jennifer Gibbins
Editor
The Cordova Times
www.thecordovatimes.com
907-424-7181

Students, check out these new jobs and internship gigs!

1. ARTIC CIRCLE ANYONE? The Norwegian Embassy in Washington and the US Embassy in Oslo have announced a five-week paid reporting internship in Kirkenes, Norway, the Arctic Circle. The Barents Observer is an internet-based news service in Kirkenes that reaches more than one million unique readers, one third of which are in Russia. The paper focuses on energy, security, business, nature and environmental science in the Arctic, culture, borders, and politics. The program pays for housing, roundtrip travel, a stipend of approximately US$1,700 and a visit to Observer’s bureau in Murmansk, Russia. All details and contact information for additional information is on JobNews. Applications due April 21.

2. Agence France-Presse is looking for an editor for the English-language news desk at its North American regional headquarters in Washington. A minimum of three years of experience reporting for an international audience is required along with the ability to translate into English from French. Spanish is also a plus because of news feeds that come to the desk from Latin America. Multi-media experience a plus. Apply by email by April 11 to chris.lefkow@afp.com, dave.clark@afp.com and mary-ann.campagna@afp.com. Here’s the full listing and links to apply: http://www.gorkanajobs.com/job/21623/agence-france-presse-editor-d-c-/. Note: AFP will be visiting the J-school in mid-April but that will be a separate visit and after this application deadline.

3. The deadline for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Reporting Fellowship and Playbill.com has been extended to next Tuesday, April 9 at 5 p.m. Please read on for details. Playbill / Playbill.com is seeking an inaugural Eugene O’Neill Theater Reporting Fellow to work this summer covering events and people at the world-famous Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Read about the O’Neill here. The fellowship will run from about June 8 - Aug. 10 to coincide with the summer theater season. The fellow would receive a $400/week salary and free room and board on the campus of the O’Neill Center for the duration of the fellowship. The substance of the fellowship is as follows: The O’Neill is a hotbed of theater, workshops and networking for those in the theater world; the fellow would be responsible for filing a daily “Report at the O’Neill” story or stories that would be published at Playbill.com daily. Stories would include breaking news, features, trends, profiles and enterprise. Because much of what happens at the O’Neill takes place in a workshop setting, stories would not include opinion writing, personal essays or reviews. The fellow would have daily unlimited access to rehearsals, and everything that happens off and on campus including late-night pub talks with artists, teachers, participants, interns and staff. To apply, please send Gina Boubion two (2) writing samples and a brief email cover letter explaining your background and interest in the arts, theater, or playwriting, by Wednesday, April 10 at 5 p.m. to gboubion@columbia.edu. Address your cover letter to Philip Birsh, president and publisher of Playbill, and please let Gina Boubion know it’s coming. Please note: A student who is awarded this fellowship would probably be eligible for Laurie Scholarship funding (see below).

4. The Laurie Scholarship deadline has been extended until April 15. If you have landed a modestly paid internship and can demonstrate financial need, you may want to consider applying for the Laurie funds. All details and application information on JobNews. These scholarships are primarily intended to provide support to graduates doing internships at high-quality news organizations that can offer significant editorial experience but only have the resources to offer limited compensation. The scholarships will not be awarded to any company that is not paying at least the state’s minimum wage to the intern. Students from both the M.S. and M.A. programs are eligible to apply for these funds. Past Laurie winners have used the scholarship to supplement their expenses at VTDigger, The Houston Press (a VVM-owned alt-weekly), Clarin in Buenos Aires, The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting and ZeitMagazin in Berlin, Germany. Students who land summer internships at other news companies would certainly be eligible if the company in question is offering substandard compensation.

5. Women’s Health Magazine is currently seeking a full-time intern to support our research department in New York City for summer 2013. Our intern’s primary responsibilities include researching and fact-checking stories, as well as assisting editors and the online team as needed. The ideal candidate is working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree in journalism and possesses some magazine experience, impeccable attention to detail, excellent reporting skills, outstanding organizational skills, and the ability to independently evaluate the validity of source material. A robust understanding of science and experience reading and interpreting published research is preferable. This is a 10-week paid internship program (hourly wage) that will run from June through August. Interns must be credit eligible and unfortunately that means that international students don’t qualify. To apply. send cover letter with link to website or clips but avoid sending emails with large or multiple attachments because the Rodale system will not accept them. Put Columbia J-School/Women’s Health Internship Application in the email subject line and also, copy Jaqueline DeLaFuente in Career Services with your application jmd2221@columbia.edu. Application deadline is April 19 but apply IMMEDIATELY: Lisa Ann Smith/Research Chief/Women’s Health magazine/email: lisa.smith@rodale.com. Lisa is J-2005!

6. Reminder: The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting summer fellowship application deadline has been reopened and extended until April 15. As many of you know who attended the information session with John Christie and Naomi Schalit, this is an outstanding opportunity to do substantive investigative reporting under the guidance of two superlative, veteran investigative journalists, build your clip portfolio, live in a beautiful place for the summer and get free room and board including homecooked meals and plenty of lobster. We highly recommend this opportunity! We have also extended the application deadline for the Laurie Scholarships for this position so if you apply and have financial need, we encourage you to apply for the additional funds. All details are available on JobNews including an appraisal of this fellowship from 2012 Stabile graduate Matt Drange, who is now a staff reporter at Bay Citizen/Center for Investigative Reporting. Nat Herz, New York World reporter/J-2012 has an inside track on this position can tell you more and is happy to have an information session or answer individual questions. natherz@gmail.com. One way or the other, nothing beats summers on the river in Maine.

Here are two opportunities for part-time students.

1) The German Embassy Young Journalist program
This year, we are hosting a German-American workshop in Washington, D.C., for outstanding young journalists from the United States and Germany to discuss journalistic challenges from agiobai perspective and with a transatlantic dimension. The workshop will take place May 20 -24, 2013.

The goal of the workshop is to foster transatlantic dialogue in the field of journalism and to build personal networks. Participants will have the opportunity to discover and discuss our common interests, endeavors, and challenges in politics and as societies and how this relates to journalistic work.

Participants will meet with leading American and German journalists, experts, U.S. administration officials, and representatives of the German Embassy. Travel expenses and accommodations will be paid by the German Embassy. For further information, please contact Mr. Stefan Messerer, Deputy Head of the Press Department, by e-mail atpr-2@wash.diplo.de or by phone at (202) 298-4246.

2) Wanted: student journalists and mentors for the Online News Association Student Newsroom 2013
See link to apply: http://journalists.org/2013/04/04/wanted-student-journalists-and-mentors-for-the-ona13-student-newsroom/

Apply to be one of 20 select students in the ONA13 Student Newsroom at the 2013 Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet, Oct. 17-19, in Atlanta.Students, want to get your work in front of over 1,400 digital journalism professionals and network with leaders in the industry - not to mention potential employers? Would it seal the deal if it were all free?

Applications for both students and mentors must be received by May 2 at 11:59 p.m. The Student Newsroom, supported for the fourth year by Google, immerses college students in a digital media environment by providing hands-on experience producing content for the ONA13 website before and during the conference, under the personal guidance of professional mentors. Students also have the opportunity to attend ONA13 programming led by experts in digital journalism, network with attendees and acquire and flex new digital media skills. Lodging, travel and registration expenses are covered.

If you are thinking about freelancing, here’s an event you must attend: The Freelance Series: Three Alums Tell You How to Freelance in Print and Digital.

The Freelance Series: Three Alums Tell You How to Freelance in Print and Digital
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 10
Room 607B

This talk is part of Career Services’ popular freelance series that focuses on the life, art and business of freelancing. Next Wednesday, you’ll hear from three successful alums who have established toeholds in different areas. Come early to get a seat. The speakers are:

Jina Moore, J’06, is a freelance reporter for print and radio focusing on Africa and writing for a range of magazines, including the Christian Science Monitor, Salon, Boston Review, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and CJR, among others. She is a senior nonfiction editor at Guernica Magazine and editorial director of the Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism, where she oversees the online human rights magazine, “Acts of Witness.” In 2013, she is a New Media Fellow of the International Reporting Project and will be reporting on health and human rights in Rwanda and Congo.

Richard Morgan, J’05 has been freelancing for nine years and has learned more than he did in K-8. After graduating from Columbia in 2005, Richard joined the all-freelance stable of writers at the now-defunct City section of The New York Times. He has written for Details, Discover, The Economist, ESPN, Fortune, Forbes, New York, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, Wired and others. He left freelancing in 2010 to take a staff job at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and returned to NYC in 2012 to pick up his freelance career.

Anna Hiatt, J’12, is a Washington, D.C. native and UC Berkeley grad who works as a visual, multimedia, and written word journalist in New York City. After shooting the Oakland Athletics for two seasons, she came to Columbia where she wrote about crime and fell in love with court documents. Since graduating she’s freelanced for Reuters, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Jerusalem Post. She’s currently launching The Big Roundtable, a start-up with Columbia professor Michael Shapiro, and working on a PBS documentary series about trees.

With the biggest journalism job fair in Columbia’s history now over, we’d like to hear about your experience so we can make the next one even better.

Please take a minute to give us some feedback: http://fs7.formsite.com/cu_jschool_careers/form116/index.html. Do keep Career Services in the loop when you get calls for second round interviews and internship or job offers.

Students: Investigators and Lobster Lovers, Theater Mavens, Financial Writers, Laurie Scholarship Funds and more….Check out these jobs and special internship opportunities and APPLY IMMEDIATELY. All details on JobNews.

MSN Money is hiring in NYC. Looking for a business editor with strong web production and social media skills, junior to mid-level full-time position. Send resume, cover letter and clips to Amey Stone, Managing Editor and J-School grad: ameys@microsoft.com. Career Services is asking for additional details and posting on JobNews but go ahead and apply.

This tip thanks to J-s\School grad Antoine Gara! The Deal is hiring a healthcare M&A reporter, which means looking at the pharmaceuticals/life sciences industry from the vantage point of mergers and acquisitions: http://corporate.thestreet.com/healthcare-reporter. For the right person, this is an interesting job especially given the size of acquisitions and the prospect companies like Pfizer return to M&A or continue corporate dismantlings. In addition, our healthcare reporter Adam Feuerstein at TheStreet, which is the non-subscription part of the company, is one of the industry’s top reporters and has won many SABEW awards for exposing financial misrepresentations in the pharma industry.

Playbill / Playbill.com is seeking an inaugural Eugene O’Neill Theater Reporting Fellow to work this summer covering events and people at the world-famous Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Read about the O’Neill here. The fellowship will run from about June 8 - Aug. 10 to coincide with the summer theater season. The fellow would receive a $400/week salary and free room and board on the campus of the O’Neill Center for the duration of the fellowship. The substance of the fellowship is as follows: The O’Neill is a hotbed of theater, workshops and networking for those in the theater world; the fellow would be responsible for filing a daily “Report at the O’Neill” story or stories that would be published at Playbill.com daily. Stories would include breaking news, features, trends, profiles and enterprise. Because much of what happens at the O’Neill takes place in a workshop setting, stories would not include opinion writing, personal essays or reviews. The fellow would have daily unlimited access to rehearsals, and everything that happens off and on campus including late-night pub talks with artists, teachers, participants, interns and staff. To apply, please send Gina Boubion two (2) writing samples and a brief email cover letter explaining your background and interest in the arts, theater, or playwriting, by Friday, April 5 at 5 p.m. to gboubion@columbia.edu. Address your cover letter to Philip Birsh, president and publisher of Playbill, and please let Gina Boubion know it’s coming. Philip Birsh would like to come on campus next week to interview candidates.

The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting summer fellowship application deadline has been reopened and extended until April 15. As many of you know who attended the information session with John Christie and Naomi Schalit, this is an outstanding opportunity to do substantive investigative reporting under the guidance of two superlative, veteran investigative journalists, build your clip portfolio, live in a beautiful place for the summer and get free room and board including homecooked meals and plenty of lobster. We highly recommend this opportunity! We have also extended the application deadline for the Laurie Scholarships for this position so if you apply and have financial need, we encourage you to apply for the additional funds. All details are available on JobNews including a very enthusiastic endorsement of this fellowship from 2012 Stabile graduate Matt Drange, who is now a staff reporter at Bay Citizen/Center for Investigative Reporting.

Nat Herz, New York World reporter/J-2012 who happens to have the inside track on this position (these are his folks) can tell you more and is happy to have an information session or answer individual questions: natherz@gmail.com. One way or the other, nothing beats summers on the river in Maine.

Application deadlines for Al Jazeera programming and news division internships in NY and DC have been extended until April 15. Details on JobNews. Nominal stipend provided. You must apply directly to Al Jazeera as noted but also upload your resume to the posting on JobNews so Career Services is aware of your application. Questions? Career Services Administrator Jacqueline DeLaFuente is here to help you: jmd2221@columbia.edu. These internships are totally separate from the J-school/Doha fellowships.

The Laurie Scholarship deadline has been extended until April 15th. If you have landed a modestly paid internship and can demonstrate financial need, you may want to consider applying for the Laurie funds. All details on JobNews.

Specific advice on how to write a thank-you note after the Career Expo is on the site: Thank-You Notes. You should write notes to everybody you met that you are interested in. Also, just because an employer promised to get in touch sometime this week does not mean you should wait for that call or email before you send your thank-you note. It’s more than okay to be the first to reach out and follow-up.

Also, if you already have a job but did not make that clear at the Expo, or if you just got an offer today and have accepted it, you must let employers know. Put it in your thank-note. Say something like “This is to let you know that I have accepted an internship at the Associated Press and will be going to Jerusalem in the summer. I would very much like to keep in touch over the next several months because I am very interested in any opportunities you might have in the fall or beyond….”

Recruiter email contact information is now visible to you on the 2013 Company Profiles and will remain available to you until next year when we replace it with company profiles for the next Career Expo.

Other bits and pieces: If you are contacted by an employer for a follow-up, don’t forget to prepare! On Saturday, many of the employers were in a jovial, meet-and-greet kind of mood. However, if you are invited to a newsroom for further conversations, it likely will be more formal and require more preparation. The news question is a popular one – “what are the top three stories we ought to have on our site today?” Prepare your clip package again just in case it’s been misplaced or damaged. Practice your answers to popular questions. Dress to impress. Arrive five minutes early.

Good luck and remember, Career Services is here to guide you along if you need help.

The Number 1/1 Train EXPRESS from 96TH TO 145TH Street, MAKING NO LOCAL STOPS.

You will need to go all the way to 145th Street, exit the station and cross the street, then re-enter the subway station at 145th street to take a Downtown 1 Train which IS making local stops from 145th Street to 14th Street OR hike up from 96TH Street.

Expect delays and allow extra time!

We have several last-minute Career Expo changes to report. They’re listed below and are posted to the Recruiter Minute-to-Minute schedule online. The Recruiter Minute-to-Minute is now updated to include all open slots, so please take a look. Tomorrow we’ll give you a hard copy of the Minute-to-Minute as well as a layout map of Lerner Hall and a Key to Table Assignments.

1. The Daily Voice has canceled; candidates interested in jobs and internships are strongly encouraged to send a resume, cover letter and clips to their chief content officer, instructions on the 2013 Company Profiles. Newsmax has canceled. Students who wanted to meet with them can reach out next week when the recruiter contact information will be visible on the 2013 Company Profiles.

2. Al Jazeera - Producer Al Jazeera English, New York and J-School grad Ben Moran is now talking walk-ups from 3 p.m.-5 p.m.

3. NPR Latino USA, a program of NPR, is coming. Latino USA is the foremost Latino voice in public media and the longest running Latino-focused program on radio and is anchored by Emmy-award winning reporter Maria Hinjosa. Executive radio producer Carolina Gonzalez will be recruiting for LatinoUSA and sitting at the NPR table. For more information, check out the 2013 Company Profiles.

4. Economist.com is doing walk-ups and recruiting for a new paid summer internship in Washington, DC, for people with excellent digital, audio and editing skills. This internship has been an excellent opportunity for our students in past years! Please see the 2013 Company Profiles for more details.

5. Mint/Hindustan Times - Hindustan Times has three paid positions to fill, so walk up to them after 2:40 p.m. to express your interest. Hindustan Times, India’s second largest read English mainstream newspaper, is looking to hire journalists who will spend a year working directly under its editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan. During this period, they will be exposed to and work in various departments of the paper and its website. At the end of this period, they will be assigned to a department. The salary during this period will be $25,000 a year. The positions are based in Delhi for the first year. If you decide to apply, whether or not you see HT tomorrow, please notify Anusha Shrivastava of your application: as1698@columbia.edu.

6. RNN is now sending executive producers to meet you. They are Jade Tyler, Office Coordinator at WRNN-TV / Verizon FiOS 1 News; Michael Fitzsimmons, Executive Producer; Tanya Mills, Executive Producer. They’re hiring for a variety of positions including editors, reporters, anchors, sports reporters, graphics reporters and more. Please take a look at the Company Profile for more information.

7. Katie (Katie Couric’s syndicated daytime talk show on ABC) will be at the ABC tables and doing walk-ups from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Recruiters are: Tony Maciulis, supervising producer and head writer of Katie; Susie Banikarim, editorial producer for Katie; and Meredith Kennedy, Executive Assistant to Katie Couric, and a recent J-School grad.

8. WNET - Channel 13 is now coming from 10 a.m. -12 p.m. Executive Producer Mary Lockhart will be staffing the table from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. She’ll be looking at video content and looking to identify talent for positions that may come up at Channel 13 in the future. If meeting with WNET was one of your priorities for tomorrow, make sure to catch her while she’s here. Martha Tao, J-School 2012 grad who freelances at WNET, will also be coming and can talk about working at the station. Please see the Company Profiles for more information.

9. J-School adjunct Richard Deitsch, writer and editor at Sports Illustrated and SI.com, will be joining Richard Demak at the Sports Illustrated table in the afternoon and will take walk-ups from 2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. He says that students in his class with Sandy Padwe should not walk-up to him and should instead try to meet Richard Demak during walk-ups. Deitsch has hired many J-Schoolers onto the website for short and long term assignments.

10. WNYC w/ Jacob Kramer-Duffield: DIGITAL students, Jacob Kramer-Duffield, manager of digital analytics and research, has posted a job on JobNews that calls for digital, data and computer sci skills. Meet with him if you’re interested.

11. NowThis News: Managing Editor Katharine Zaleski will be joining her team Betsy Rate and Matthew Drake. Before helping to launch NowThis News, Zaleski was the Associate Producer for CNN’s American Morning, senior news editor at The Huffington Post, head of digital news at The Washington Post. Her full bio is on the Company Profiles.

12. Digiday is now staying only for a half day.

13. THIS JUST IN: Andrew Springer-Senior Editor, Social Media/ABC NEWS will be coming 1 p.m. -3 p.m. for WALK-UPS ONLY. Social Media mavens–step right up! Rumor has it that Andrew is looking to hire in the near future. Andrew is a J-School 2011 grad and he started as an intern at ABC News as a part-time student.

14. Ben Maran from Al Jazeera will be at the Career Expo at 1 p.m.

Also, this is important: If something comes up tomorrow morning and you are unable to make it to the Career Expo, we ask that you PLEASE email one of us to let us know.

A note on safety: If you expect to be in the J-School late tonight making copies of your materials for the Career Expo, the Columbia Public Safety escort service is available to walk you home at any time, even if you live off-campus. The number is (212) 854-SAFE.

The staff of the Office of Career Services will be on hand at the Career Expo to help you all day. We will see you at Lerner Hall, 115th and Broadway, tomorrow morning. Plan to arrive between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. We wish you well, and we hope your experience is a good one. It should be a great day.

Best regards,
Your Career Services Team

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We have a record number of news companies and journalism associations - 132 - attending your Career Expo on Saturday. Expect a busy day full of opportunity.

Your Career Expo interview schedules are now in your basement mail folders. If you don’t have a mailslot at the J-School, we sent you an email with your schedule. If you want the hard copy, come get it from Career Services tomorrow. We have made every attempt to match you with at least three employers each. These matches were based on your interests and geographic restrictions and employers’ needs. Please visit your mail folder as soon possible so you can start researching companies. If you are a part-time student with no plans to come to campus any time soon, please email Jacqueline De La Fuente asap: jmd2221@columbia.edu.

Take your interview matches as a starting-off point so you can plot your own day. Students typically have time to interview with 12-15 companies. Everybody should prepare 12-15 copies of your materials. For print concentrators, your package should include resume and 3-8 stories (your best work, published or unpublished). Broadcast concentrators should bring resume and clips if you have them, plus your laptop and headphones to show 2-3 stand-ups and a minute-15 second news or feature story (your best). Digital concentrators should also bring their laptops to show multimedia work on a website, vimeo or other links. When bringing your laptop, it’s crucial to calling up your work beforehand so you don’t waste time searching your computer in front a recruiter.

FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF with the Recruiter List on our site to see at a glance who is coming. Then spend time on the 2013 Company Profiles page, which is searchable. This database contains a lot of valuable information about the company, the recruiter bios, whether they hire international students and any “inside scoops” that we’ve added to help you.

We will hold one more Career Expo Prep Session on Wednesday from noon - 1:30 in room 607B. We encourage you to attend. We’ll go over the many details of the day and answer your questions. If you can’t make it, the audio is on the Events site.

Many companies will be open all day or part of the day for unscheduled walk-up interviews. The Recruiter Minute-to-Minute is where you’ll find out which companies are open for walk-ups all day and when other companies open for walk-up interviews. This page is beginning to take shape; keep your eye on this page to plan your day. We will print this schedule out for you at the Expo. Students, be aware that employers take these walk-up interviews seriously and have hired students based on these serendipitous meetings. Walk-up interviews are also 20 minutes long and are just as formal as scheduled interviews.

If you plan to pitch your masters’ projects, theses or workshop pieces, don’t forget to prepare a written pitch and visit our Pitch Doctors at Lerner Hall. Prof. Karen Stabiner will be available in the morning from 10 a.m. to noon and Professor Mirta Ojito will be available from 11 a.m. to noon. Stabiner and Ojito will read your pitches to help you figure out how to sell your piece most effectively. Sign up at their table for 10-minute sessions.

We’ve also invited the various journalism associations for further networking opportunities. These are the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, the South Asian Journalists Association, and the New York Financial Writers Association (NYFWA). Every business journalist in the Class of 2013 ought to visit Jane Reilly at NYFWA. This association gives grant money for students interested in business reporting, and has been very generous with our students.

On Saturday:

Student check-in at Roone Arledge Auditorium starts at 8 a.m. You must show your Columbia ID to claim a nametag. The Career Expo starts at 9 a.m. Nobody will be allowed inside Arledge without a nametag. The security guards will be checking, and they will turn you away if they can’t find your name on their entry lists.

You are free from 12:10 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. for lunch. During lunch, the auditorium will be closed, except for a very few number of recruiters who plan to work through lunch with scheduled appointments. We will make you aware of special arrangements for these few companies.

More on what you should bring: The resumes you submitted when you registered have been published in a “Resume Book’’ that we will give to employers the day of the job fair. Even still, every student must prepare enough resume, clips, references packets to hand out to employers as the day unfolds. Multimedia and broadcast students should bring laptops, earphones and have links ready for employers to view, hear and critique. This is true even for students who already have jobs or internships lined up post-graduation – because there’s no such thing as sitting down with a recruiter “to shoot the breeze.’’ If your resume is already out-of-date by all means update it prior to the expo. If you have a job lined up, by all means add it to the top of your work experience and frame in the future tense.

For students without published clips, use your best classroom work. Print out your stories on plain white 8.5-11-inch copy paper. Make sure the name of the publication, and date the story ran or was due is either typed or carefully written at the top. Make sure the font is large enough to read on a printout.

To get the most out of the day, think broadly about your skills and interests. You might be a print concentrator now, but don’t forget that television and radio companies are eager to meet tenacious reporters from any medium. Last year, one of our magazine concentrators landed at WNYC. Radio and film documentary companies might have interest in you if your master’s projects and theses lend themselves to audio and visual components. Likewise broadcast and multimedia students should not avoid the traditional print companies since all newspapers need audio-visual storytellers and magazines are going in that direction. One of digital media students was hired at The Washington Post as a multimedia producer; one of our broadcast students landed at The American Prospect as a writing fellow. And remember to pitch your masters to companies like Narratively, Tablet and Atavist!

Finally, an important note on safety: If you expect to be in the J-School late at night this week preparing your materials for the job fair, the Columbia Public Safety escort service is available to walk you home at any time, even if you live off-campus. The number is (212) 854-SAFE.

The staff of the Office of Career Services will be on hand at the job fair to help you navigate the room and give you advice on the fly. We wish you well, and we hope your experience is a good one. It should be a great day.

The deadline is being extended to 9 a.m. March 20 for the Global Health Reporting/Kaiser
Fellowship with Global Post in Boston and the international fellowship that will entail
travel abroad to report on child disease and mortality in a to-be-determined region of
the world. Chosen applicants will be interviewed at the Career Expo by Global Post
editors. These fellowships are exclusive to the J-School.

The deadline for the Middle East Fellowship is March 28 and the deadline for the Burma Fellowships with Global Post isn’t until April 2; however, editors for the Global Post hope to interview some candidates for these fellowships at the Career Expo. So if you get your applications in by Thursday, March 21, you’ll be considered.

Students who aren’t able to pull together application packages for Burma or the Middle East GP fellowships by Thursday will still have a chance to meet with the Global Post at the Expo.

The Career Expo will take place from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Sat. March 30. To date, 120 companies and 6 journalism associations have registered to attend the Expo and interview you for jobs, internships, freelance work, contract work and future positions. This is roughly a 15-percent increase in companies from last year, and we are still expecting a few more arrivals. In the past week, a flurry of new launches in the digital space have signed up, companies like Africa.com, The Daily Mealand Medium that perhaps you haven’t heard of. Please pay attention to these companies because they are looking to hire, and several of them are headed by J-school grads.

By end of business day on Monday, March 25 you’ll find your interview schedules in your first-floor mail files. Your schedule will show 2-3 interviews we’ve set up for you. Therefore assume you will have most of the day at the Expo to circulate and meet other news companies.

During your spring break, the smartest thing you can do to prepare is
study the companies you want to meet. This means reading what we have on the 2013 Company
Profiles page (http://bit.ly/ZxMOAD), reading their websites, publications, watching their shows, or, in the case of some of the newer launches, reading their press and their sites in beta. We cannot stress enough how much difference preparation makes at a big job
fair! Employers say they hope for it but don’t necessarily expect it, which is why our students impress them year after year. That’s on top of what they say about your talents, skills, clips, websites and videos.

If you are in NYC over the break and didn’t get a chance to witness and learn from the mock interview sessions we held last week, Monday’s your chance to watch another batch of students try out their interviewing skills. Dean of Student Affairs Ernest Sotomayor will conduct mock interviews and offer feedback on Monday, March 18 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., in room 601B. As a senior editor at Newsday for many years, first as Brooklyn/Queens editor and later as Long Island regionals and deputy business editor, Dean Sotomayor interviewed hundreds of candidates for positions ranging from internships to senior level newsroom jobs. Come watch your fellow students in mock interviews, and hear Dean Sotomayor’s tips on how best to present yourself to a potential employer.

Then after break, please attend one of the remaining Career Expo Prep sessions. The next one is Monday, March 25, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center. We’ll provide an overview of the Expo and answer your many questions so you can be ready on Sat. March 30. This session will be taped.

We will hold the last Career Expo Prep session on Wednesday, March 27 from 12 - 1 p.m., room 607B.

Happy prepping!

Your Career Services Team