Categories: OLD Media Moves

From intern to full-time biz reporting job

Richard Horgan of FishbowlLA writes about Jonathan Polakoff, a USC student who has turned an internship at the Los Angeles Business Journal into a full-time job.

Horgan writes, “The class of 2011 USC Annenberg School grad started at the Business Journal last summer as an intern, and when Greg Hernandez quickly came and went as the publication’s beat reporter earlier this year, Polakoff was able to jump into the vacated slot full-time in early June.

“Among the other topics covered recently by Polakoff are the efforts of John Wayne‘s family to put more of the actor’s memorabilia up for auction, the spotty start of Boingo wireless as a publicly traded company, and an update on the activities of the company responsible for fake Internet celeb ‘LonelyGirl15.’

“Via email to FishbowlLA, Polakoff says that USC business journalism professor Gabe Kahn was one of his key formative influences on campus. The Business Journal internship was the 25-year-old Bethesda, Maryland native’s very first such stint.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.