Competition for top talent has pushed offers for media internships earlier. The 2008-2009 slowdown in media hiring has made internships more competitive.

Keep your promise if you accept an internship, even if a better offer comes along, to preserve a good reputation. The world is small.

High-pressure hiring tactics to get people to accept internships are widespread. This tells what they are, why recruiters use them and how you can fight them.

Rejection letters can be bone-headed or cruel But is there anything we can learn from them? Not as much as you’d hope. Perhaps the biggest lessons should be learned by the p[eople who write them.

Handling rejection in your search for a news internship