Joe Grimm
• United States: Greater Detroit Area
• newspapers
Current:
Contributor, The Poynter Institute
Member, AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA
Past: Copy editor, front-page designer, deputy executive news editor, Sunday editor, reader representative, Detroit Free P Greater Detroit Area
Joe Grimm
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Address: Greater Detroit Area
Current:
- Blogger at The Poynter Institute
- Recruiting and development editor at Detroit Free Press and Gannett
- Adjunct professor in
Past:
- Recruiter at Knight Ridder
- Copy editor, front-page designer, deputy executive news editor, Sunday editor, reader representative at Detroit Free Press
Education:
- University of Michigan
People Network: 310
Industry: Staffing and Recruiting
Websites:
Joe Grimm’s Summary
Detroit Free Press, 1990 to present
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 ASNE has asked me to work with it to organize one for 1980.
• 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)
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans (2001)
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)
Blogger
The Poynter Institute
(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
Eductional Details:
University of Michigan
BA; MA, Journalism; teaching certificate, 1972 — 1976
I graduated with a bachelor's degree and secondary-schools teaching certifictae in three years. The master's degree took an additional nine months.
- Activities and Societies:
- Michiganensian yearbook photographer, copy writer
Joe Grimm’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
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
- LinkEds & writers member
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