This month's issue of Presstime, published by the Newspaper Association of America, says that internship deadlines are creeping ever earlier. This is happening despite rising enrollments in schools of journalism and mass communications and a shrinking pool of opportunities.
So, resolve to get your applications for next summer out by the end of October -- unless your favorite papers have even earlier deadlines.
Be early, but don't panic. I have seen deadlines creep earlier ever since I started recruiting in 1990. At thetime, I moved the deadline at the Detroit Free Press from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 and have no plans to make it earlier.
