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Tanya de Grunwald, founder of the GraduateFog careers advice website, tracks the rise of unpaid internships

View from the front line

Tanya de Grunwald, founder of the GraduateFog careers advice website, tracks the rise of unpaid internships

by Tanya de Grunwald 11th February 2011

For the last four months, Jo, 22, has been working for a PR company in central London. She’s at her desk by 8.30am and on the phone all day to journalists, pitching stories and inviting them to champagne press launches at the swanky West End bars and restaurants her firm promotes.