You should describe your journalism and writing experience and ability, provide references, and enclose five or six clippings to illustrate your best work. If you are going to be in the area where the newspaper is located and would be available for an interview, be sure to include that information in your application letter. ASNE asked a representative sample of newspaper journalists that question. A very high 84 percent said they would. The future of newspapers Newspapers are a profitable business, with great prospects for the future, especially considering the various forms of dissemination of information via electronic communication.
Newspapers own the major database of information for communities large and small across the nation.
About two-thirds of U.S. adults read at least part of some newspaper every day, while the same number of Americans watch TV news at some time during the day in the morning or early or late evening. Thirteen percent of all American adults read two or more papers a day. Joe Grimm's Journalism Jobs Page. An online resource for journalists maintained by Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press.