Posted On: January 3, 2024

Journalism Internship

Media Organization: Rest of World

Company Description

Rest of World is a non-profit international newsroom that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.

Since launching in 2020, we’ve published more than 1,600 stories from over 100 countries outside the West. Our work explores the spaces where tech, business, culture and human experience collide, through compelling storytelling and fresh, innovative design. Our journalism ranges from deep authoritative reporting to highlighting the surprising online cultural phenomenons. We’ve covered everything from gig workers, internet shutdowns and supply chain abuses to livestreaming battles, disappeared influencers and unexpected crypto contagion. Our reporting has won recognition in the U.S. and internationally, and our work has prompted companies and policymakers to take action.

Job Description

Rest of World is looking for a Social Video Intern to join our audience team, a 3-6 month opportunity to collaborate with our editorial staff on new initiatives in audience engagement through social video. The right person for this opportunity appreciates the art and science of reaching, engaging, and building loyal readership among a truly global audience, and knows a thing or two about social video, the platforms where people post, share, and consume them, and how people are finding news via social video right now. You understand the uses and idiosyncrasies of each of the key social platforms, with specific experience creating for TikTok, Instagram, and other video-first platforms. You know how to listen for what audiences are discussing and sharing in platforms that reach across the geographies and subject areas we cover. We’re looking to connect with people wherever they are around the stories we’re telling, and want your help in experimenting, testing, and measuring how to get there.

This position will report to the Head of Audience and work closely with our audience, product, and editorial teams.

To Apply

To apply, please send a resume and a cover letter to jobs@restofworld.org with “Audience Intern, Social Video” in the subject line. In your cover letter:

Present two social video ideas based on recently published Rest of World stories.
Take a look at our Instagram — tell us what we’re getting right or wrong, and if you were given access, what you’d do differently.
Include links to your recently published work to give us a sense of how it might fit into what we’re looking for.
We will be accepting applications until January 19, 2024 at 5pm ET.