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“Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply”

Filed under Internships, On the Job
Posted by Libraries, June 16, 2006
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Anna Bahney, The New York Times, May 25, 2006, Vol. 155, Issue 53590, pp. G1-G2.

The vast majority of employers haven’t developed policies on workers who blog and blab about the company, but others, like Comedy Central, don’t find it very funny. While Comedy Central merely required an offending intern to change his blog’s name and stop revealing insider secrets, writing about the hand that feeds you often carries risk of more serious consequences. On the other hand, some workers across the country have famously turned getting fired into gold, with book and movie deals. More experienced workers, however, realize that airing an employer’s secrets is probably not a smart career move.

To read the full article:

1. Go to Lexis-Nexis Academic: http://0-web.lexis-nexis.com.library.simmons.edu/universe
2. Type <”no bloggers need apply”> (including the quotation marks) into the box in the Quick News Search, and click Search.
3. On the next screen, click on the title of the article to reach the full text.

—Robert Demanche