Posted On: April 9, 2019

Paid Journalism Internship

Media Organization: CALmatters

Company Description

CALmatters is a three-year-old nonprofit news organization with a full time staff of 22 dedicated to explaining the policy and politics of America’s biggest state. We produce vivid, original journalism and data-driven news and analyses distributed to more than 170 media partners and on CALmatters.org. Our reporters routinely see their work featured on major media outlets like the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, KPCC, and the Los Angeles Daily News. In 2018 our explainer on California’s high housing costs won a first-place award from the Online News Association and we won an EPPY award for innovation for our Election Guide.

Job Description

CALmatters is looking for a summer video intern. If you are a critical thinker, open to learning new things and want to help create quality video news content, please apply for our paid internship.

Our video intern will help us organize our media database and spruce up our YouTube channel via captions, engaging thumbnail images and search engine optimization. In addition, the intern will work with our video journalist to help produce quality, engaging video content for our growing online audience. We are a small shop. In this role, you will get hands-on training in pre-production, production and post production. If you are ready to work hard and learn new things, please apply for this internship.

To Apply

Submit your cover letter, resume and three links to previous work or creative projects to jobs@calmatters.org. Applications due by April 12, 2019.