Love Your Layover seeks researcher/writers passionate about travel and adventure to help research destinations for an early stage web mobile startup. Duties include researching travel tips and information, writing brief itinerary summaries and finding appropriate Creative Commons licensed images to accompany the briefs. Payment is on a per-project basis.

We are looking for more New York writers to contribute to Virgin Red Room with live reviews, album reviews, interviews and blog pieces.

Find our current content at http://www.virgin.com/music.

The Deal seeks editorial interns for immediate help on a high profile reporting project. You will have the opportunity to support our corporate dealmaker team as we conduct detailed research on top public and private companies. This is a great opportunity to hone your reporting & research skills as you work alongside experienced editors & reporters in The Deal newsroom. Through the internship, you will also make invaluable contacts at top tier S&P 500 companies.

Qualified candidates will possess sharp analytic skills, meticulous attention to detail and factual accuracy and an innate ability to work independently. Experience with Internet research, database entry and reporting a plus.

This editorial internship begins the first week of March and requires 10-20 hours a week. The project will conclude in early June. Some research can be conducted off-site but interns are required to work the majority of time at The Deal offices.

Bubby’s is seeking interns to help staff an online magazine, tentatively called “Bubby’s American Table” or “Bubby’s American Cookery”. We want to develop several types of content:

-Text and visual materials about the condition of the American food and agriculture, both good and bad, including the abuses of industrial monoculture and food processing and efforts to restore traditional farming and traditional (or better than traditional) food crafts.

-Text and visual materials about the history and evolution of American foods, dishes and cooking, including current and innovative developments.

-Recipes and meals, especially focused on seasonal availability and calendar events.

-Pieces on Bubby’s people, dishes, methods, suppliers and events.

City Spoonful (www.cityspoonful.com) is a food news website dedicated to exploring the communities that make up New York City with a mix of food-related news and feature stories, videos and restaurant reviews. We are looking for writers, photographers and videographers with a love of food and a sense of adventure. We are a start-up (i.e. we can’t afford to pay contributors as of yet.) But we can offer a place to publish your work as you begin to build a portfolio. So if you have a great idea, a passion for exploring off-the-beaten path neighborhoods or just really have a hankering to review that restaurant on your block, shoot us an email. We’re also looking for reporters to attend foodie events throughout the city.

Research intern should have strong background in biological sciences, especially relating to cancer and oncology. Intern will assist with research for a documentary film series for PBS about cancer. Candidates should be consistent and reliable.

MedHelp, a fast-paced health start-up, is looking for a talented and experienced freelance health writers to write on a variety of health, medical and lifestyle topics. If you're passionate about health and know how to engage, inform and inspire people to live their healthiest through your words, we want to hear from you!

Writers must:
* have health, lifestyle or medical writing experience
* be current on the latest nutrition, health and medical information
* be able to read and interpret medical studies and turn that into intelligent, zingy prose for a general audience
* be knowledgeable about best practices for writing for the web, including SEO
* be able to work independently, meet tight deadlines and approach each assignment with creativity and intelligence.

Topics will be assigned but pitches are also welcome (and encouraged)!

You'll be paid for your work on a per-article basis -- the rate will be determined by your experience and professional credentials (if applicable).

Check out some samples of our work below and visit www.medhelp.org.

http://www.medhelp.org/healthy-living/articles/11-Excuse-Proof-Reasons-to-Start-Walking-/260
http://www.medhelp.org/cancer/slideshows/Get-the-Facts-About-Ovarian-Cancer/268
http://www.medhelp.org/healthy-living/slideshows/12-Foods-That-Make-You-Smarter/267
http://www.medhelp.org/neurology/articles/5-Tips-to-Prevent-Cognitive-Decline/250
http://www.medhelp.org/eye-care/articles/9-Common-Eye-Myths-Dispelled/166?page=1

The Overseas Press Club’s Freedom of the Press Committee is looking for a spring contributor to assist with documenting and publicizing attacks on the press worldwide in articles for the web site, letters to foreign governments and through social media. The contributor will be invited to attend the annual awards ceremony on April 25, 2012, and paid $500.

The Overseas Press Club was founded in 1939 in New York by a group of foreign correspondents. The OPC seeks to maintain an international association of journalists working in the United States and abroad; to encourage the highest standards of professional integrity and skill in the reporting of news; to help educate a new generation of journalists; to contribute to the freedom and independence of journalists and the press throughout the world, and to work toward better communication and understanding among people.

Contributors will research and write pieces for the OPC website, based on published and online sources, covering current stories and controversies of interest to OPC members. Contributors will use social media to discuss press freedom issues and raise the OPC profile.

Our ideal candidate is interested in international journalism, familiar with news programming and current events, uses social media. He or she has strong research and writing skills, is well organized and detail oriented, mature and responsible, and can work independently.

The OPC internship runs for 12 weeks, starting on Feb. 20 through May 11, 2012. We require approximately 5-7 hours a week of work. The intern will be paid $500 at the end of the internship.

Please send a resume and a short cover letter explaining your interest in international journalism and why you want to intern with the OPC by email to: awright@columbia.edu

Please write INTERNSHIP on the subject line and include two references, with one professional reference in possible.

We will accept applications until Feb. 10, 2012.

Creatives sought to help build an online and hard-copy version of a news-magazine. The magazine will examine project is expected to run approximately three months.

The premiere version of the magazine will look at different perspectives of the Occupy Movement. Theses perspectives range from celebrity interviews (Interview Magazine concept) to analyses by lauded economists. Other perspectives juxtapose ideas of a homeless person against the, "1%". The online version of the magazine will also seek to introduce a new advertising model. It is the first that is intended to embed relevant ads into the content of articles.

Huffington Post Women is seeking an intern to work closely with the editor researching stories, writing quick posts, updating social media accounts, maintaining a calendar of upcoming books, TV, movies, etc, calling in books, assisting with basic photo research and resizing, and completing various other editorial tasks.

Qualification:
The candidate must be extremely web savvy and a frequent user of social media. The ideal candidate is a fast learner, maintains a personal blog, and knows Tumblr and/or StumbleUpon.

This is a spring internship at 40 hours / week at $10/hr.