Newspaper resources

N.C. Press Association maintains a job bank of newspaper openings (both editorial and advertising) in North Carolina, as well as links to online newspapers in N.C.

The Detroit Free Press maintains a comprehensive newspaper jobs career page, the JobsPage, which includes openings with Knight-Ridder newspapers across the country. This site also contains links to other job banks and advice about landing reporting, editing, design and online jobs with newspapers.

American Society of Newspaper Editors maintains a newspaper careers site.

The Magazine Publishers Association maintains an excellent website that includes advice for breaking into magazine journalism. The site includes postings for both full-time positions and internships.

PR Week magazine is perhaps the most complete trade publication covering the public relations industry. PR Week offers a comprehensive job site at PR Week Jobs.

A great starting point for information on public relations activities across the country is the Public Relations Society of America home page. There are links to a number of individual chapters, many of which have job listings and newsletters online, as well as links to individual agencies in particular cities.

Among the individual PRSA chapters with Web sites:

Triad PRSA chapter is very active. It also maintains a job bank for the Greensboro Winston-Salem High Point area.

The Charlotte PRSA chapter meets monthly. It has a job bank with job and internship listings in the Charlotte area.

Information about public relations in the Washington area is at the PRSA National Capital chapter. The chapter maintains a Jobline and internship listings.

The New York PRSA chapter is here.

The International Association of Business Communicators is another professional organization for business communications professionals and has chapters throughout the world. Go here to find the latest job listings.

Among individual IABC chapters with web sites are:

The Triangle chapter, which includes a calendar and career resources, as does the Charlotte chapter and the Atlanta chapter. Go here to find a link to all IABC chapter web sites.

For people interested in public relations jobs in Washington, D.C., the newspaper Roll Call has a very good job listings site.

USA Jobs is the federal goverment's main job search engine and has listings for hundreds of openings across the world. Find public relations-oriented jobs by going to the Occupational Series option and clicking on "Public Affairs."

The NCAA has listings for jobs in media relations, marketing, event promotion and development in college and university athletic departments.

French/West/Vaughn is the Southeast’s largest independent public relations, public affairs, brand communications and advertising agency and is based in Raleigh.

Capital Strategies is one of the largest communications agencies in North Carolina and is based in Raleigh. The agency offers public relations, advertising, marketing, design and online services.

Epley Associates is a North Carolina-based public relations agency with offices in Charlotte and Raleigh.

Hill and Knowlton is one of the world's largest public relations agencies.

Landmark Communications publishes three major regional newspapers, including the News & Record in Greensboro and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. Landmark also publishes the Carolina Blue athletic publication. To learn more about internships with Landmark newspapers, go here.

Gannett publishes newspapers across the country and is now the largest newspaper publisher in the nation. Among the papers published by Gannett are the Asheville Citizen-Times in Asheville, N.C., and USA Today.

The Tribune Company is one of the nation's biggest newspaper publishers. Among newspapers owned by Tribune are The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, The Los Angeles Times and Newsday. Tribune also is a major owner of broadcast stations and online properties.

Association for Women in Sports Media lists sports reporting and editing positions.

Society of News Design mantains a job bank that includes graphic design and page design positions open across the country.

National Diversity Newspaper Job Bank maintains job postings from newspapers across the country and allows you to post résumés for editors to view.

Copy Editor can be used to search for copy editing jobs, including non newspaper jobs.

American Copy Editor Society (ACES) has a nifty job site.

The Associated Press Sports Editors site is made for aspiring sports reporters, editors, copy editors and designers.

Advertising resources

The AAAA offers a large page of links to advertising agencies. The links to those advertising agencies is searchable by state.