Media recruiter
Greater Detroit Area
- Current
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- Assistant editor/mentor at Reznetnews.org
- Visiting journalist at Michigan State University
- Ask the Recruiter writer at The Poynter Institute
- Adjunct professor in media editing at Oakland University
- Past
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- Recruiting and development editor at Detroit Free Press and Gannett
- Recruiter at Knight Ridder
- Copy editor, front-page designer, deputy executive news editor, Sunday editor, reader representative at Detroit Free Press
- Copy editor, wire editor, front-page designer, regional editor, editorial writer, associate editor at Oakland Press
- Education
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- University of Michigan
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Joe Grimm’s Summary
Michigan State University School of Journalism, 2008 --
I teach news reporting and writing II and am involved in helping us bring talented high school students into the MSU School of Journalism and helping our students find professional internships and job placement.
Detroit Free Press, 1990 to 2008
As the news recruiter, I have coordinated hiring and staff development for a newsroom staff of 300 through a 21-month strike, the move into our competitor’s building, the rise of online and the overnight switch from Knight Ridder to Gannett. Have been a media recruiter with both companies’ corporate recruiting teams.
• Helped the Free Press achieve staff diversity of 31 percent, highest among the nation’s 20 largest newspapers.
• Organized 16 job fairs since 1991 and am helping ONA organize one for 2008..
• From 1991 through 2008, I will have recruited at 57 of 60 NABJ, AAJA, NAHJ, NAJA and UNITY conventions, more than any other recruiter in the country.
• Produced 100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans in 1999. I posted it early on Sept. 12, 2001, it had runaway traffic and was named the educational site of the week. More than 30,000 hard copies distributed so far.
• In 1997, launched the JobsPage, the dominant newspaper recruiting site. For its 10th anniversary, I reverse published it as a book (my fifth) and launched www.newsrecruiter.com.
• Created Ask the Recruiter blog in 2003. Since late 2006, it has been the featured element of Poynter Online’s Career Center. Traffic for May 2007 reached 200,000 views.
• Pinch hit as Web editor, news editor and copy editor.
• Led sessions in harassment prevention, selection interviews, evaluations, conflict resolution (Achieve Global), diversity
Joe Grimm’s Specialties:
Recruiting, staff development, diversity
Social networking
Books:
Michigan Voices: Our State's History in the Words of the People Who Lived It (1987)
Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (2002)
Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton (2005)
Bringing the News, a collection of antique postcards featuring newspaper hawkers (June 2007)
Breaking In: The JobsPage.com Guide to Newspaper Internships (2007)
The Best of Ask the Recruiter (2008)
Joe Grimm’s Experience
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Assistant editor/mentor
Reznetnews.org
(Online Media industry)
August 2008 — Present (4 months)
I work with contributors and help edit the Web site for this Native American news service.
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Visiting journalist
Michigan State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; MSU; Higher Education industry)
August 2008 — Present (4 months)
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Ask the Recruiter writer
The Poynter Institute
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
I answer a question related to jobs and job hunting each Monday through Friday for the Poynter.org Career Center. The feature is called Ask the Recruiter, the name I used when I started a Q&A blog in September, 2003. It is at http://www.poynter.org/asktherecruiter
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Adjunct professor in media editing
Oakland University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1980 — Present (28 years 3 months)
Teach media editing. Have previously taught copy editing, newswriting, editorial writng and photojournalism.
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Recruiting and development editor
Detroit Free Press and Gannett
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)
January 1983 — August 2008 (25 years 8 months)
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Recruiter
Knight Ridder
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
1990 — 2005 (15 years)
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Copy editor, front-page designer, deputy executive news editor, Sunday editor, reader representative
Detroit Free Press
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)
January 1983 — September 1990 (7 years 9 months)
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Copy editor, wire editor, front-page designer, regional editor, editorial writer, associate editor
Oakland Press
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
July 1976 — January 1983 (6 years 7 months)
Joe Grimm’s Education
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University of Michigan
BA; MA, Journalism; teaching certificate, 1972 — 1976
Graduated in three years with a bachelor's degree and secondary-schools teaching certificate. Master's degree took an additional nine months.
- Activities and Societies:
- Michiganensian yearbook photographer, copy writer
Additional Information
Joe Grimm’s Websites:
Joe Grimm’s Interests:
Recruiting, diversity, networks, print-on-demand publishing, Michigan and Great Lakes history
Joe Grimm’s Groups:
Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), American Copy Editors Society (ACES), Online News Association, Online News Association (ONA)
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Joe Grimm’s Honors:
Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity Leadership from APME, ASNE, Freedom Forum, 2007
AAJA Leadership in Diversity award, 2005
Wayne State University Journalism Institute for Minorities recognition, 2005
Michigan Interscholastic Press Association John V. Field Award, 2004
Center for Great Lakes Culture non-fiction book of the year, 2003
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism "Let's Do it Better" recognition, 2002
Knight Ridder excellence award for diversity, 1997
Joe Grimm’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
