Paid Part-Time Social Media Fellowship

-20-24 hours/week, starting in January

Northside Media Group is looking for an enthusiastic part-time PAID social-media fellowship. This is a temporary position, but there is definitely opportunity to become a permanent employee if it’s a good fit!

Responsibilities:
-You’ll work with Social Media Manager to understand company social media policies and best practices.
-With guidance, will help craft, schedule, and post content (from bkmag.com and elsewhere) across platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
-Will help research and execute social media growth strategies.
-Opportunity to pitch content to bkmag.com
-Some relevant administrative tasks including creating/updating spreadsheets, sending emails, etc.

Requirements:
-Junior, senior, or recent graduate .
- Previous relevant internship or freelance work preferred.

Martha's Vineyard Fellowship for Innovation in Journalism

The Vineyard Gazette, a prestigious newspaper based on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, is seeking applications from multimedia journalists for a new six-week fellowship on the Vineyard from April 2 - May 14, 2016.

The Martha's Vineyard Fellowship for Innovation in Journalism, created in association with the Noepe Center for the Literary Arts, will select a fellow who will work alongside Vineyard Gazette reporters and editors to produce one or more in-depth news projects that combine high standards of journalism with innovative storytelling techniques.

The Gazette has created the fellowship to promote experimentation and to cultivate the use of multimedia journalism techniques in a traditional newsroom setting. The successful fellow will have professional journalism experience and demonstrated audio, video and/or digital production skills. We are seeking a mature, multimedia journalist with the ability and desire to work as part of a newsroom team, to share knowledge and to produce compelling news packages.

Fellowship carries a stipend of $500/week, plus housing in a beautifully restored inn that serves as a writers' residence.

For more information, see: http://vineyardgazette.com/marthas-vineyard-fellowship-innovation-journalism

Spring 2016 Fellowship

TIME Asia is now accepting applications for its Spring 2016 fellowship program, which will run from Jan. 17 to June 3. The application deadline is Nov 20, 2015.

Fellows are responsible for fact-checking stories, researching specials and graphics, helping run our social-media accounts and producing daily news articles for TIME.com. There are also opportunities to report and write short pieces for the magazine, as well as longer features for TIME.com.

Requirements:
1. Internship experience and/or bylined clips from a major English-language news organization
2. Demonstrated interest in Asia and/or fluency in an Asian language
3. Familiarity with U.S. and international popular culture.
4. Detailed appreciation of social media as a news reporting and dissemination tool.

Fellows are paid $8,000 HKD (about $1,000 USD) per month. We do not cover travel or living expenses.

Editorial Fellow

Do you love history, culture, science, maps? Do you want to spend your days working at a digital media company devoted to exploring the world's hidden wonders? Do you want hands-on experience with a small team? Come be an editorial fellow at Atlas Obscura! We are hoping to hire a fellow to begin January 4, 2016, with the potential for a longer-term commitment.

Work duties will be varied, as this is a start-up, and everyone pitches in. You would get experience writing and producing web stories, working on multimedia projects, and learning about social media strategy.

Some key attributes:

Demonstrated writing and reporting ability
Curiousity
Sense of humor
Passion for AO’s mission of finding and reporting on the coolest things on the planet

Salary. NYC-based job. Both 3-and-6 month stints available, with a preference for those who can stay for six. This is a 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. gig, so no current students with class commitments will be considered.

Spring 2016 Editorial Fellow

Want to grow as a journalist while absorbing a universe of green knowledge? Apply for the Grist Fellowship Program.

The Grist Fellowship Program is an opportunity to hone your skills at a national news outlet and deepen your knowledge of environmental issues. We’re looking for early-career journalists with a variety of skills, from traditional reporting to multimedia whizbangery. We will offer exposure to the leading sustainability thinkers and theories of our time, real-world experience at a fast-paced news site, and the occasional pie potluck.

Storyhunter Fellowship

The Storyhunter Fellowship is a 6-month training program that provides a hands-on experience across all of our operations. Fellows will rotate between our community, sales, and tech teams to gain complete insight into how Storyhunter helps leading media companies find, manage and hire journalists and filmmakers around the world. This is a highly competitive program designed to identify future hires.

Qualifications:
Undergraduate or graduate degree required. Recent graduates in journalism/marketing preferred. Current students with less than a year left in their curriculum will also be considered.
Strong desire to pursue a career in media and technology with a passion for entrepreneurship.
Self-starter ready to take on any challenge with determination, discipline and humility.
Demonstrated ability to work within a team.
Native fluency in English required. Foreign language skills preferred.
Excellent writing, communication and analytical skills.
Available to work at least 3 full days a week.
Experience in graphic design, photo/video editing, HTML/CSS preferred, but not required.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Editorial Fellow (Fall 2015)

Map Happy is offering part-time fellowships (~20 hours) for fall 2015. There is no coffee running here! Our fellows are involved in the business from the ground up. Responsibilities include research, as well as social media and outreach efforts. There are also writing opportunities so its a great chance to build up a proper portfolio.

Climate change fellowship

The GroundTruth Project, which trains and supports the next generation of international
correspondents, is building a robust and diverse editorial team of reporting fellows and
editors to lead a multimedia reporting project over the next three years that will track the
impact of global warming.

Excited about covering climate change from an international perspective?

We are seeking applicants for up to five reporting fellowships to join our editorial team in
November 2015.

GroundTruth will select journalists from around the world with strengths across different
media platforms, including radio, video, photography, data visualization and the written
word.

Selected fellows will travel to France to cover the 2015 Paris Climate Conference in December and work with the GroundTruth team to shape an in-depth, multimedia package to be reported over the next three years. During the four-week fellowship, fellows will produce live coverage of the event, develop sources and ideas and receive
training and mentorship from veteran correspondents. They also will become eligible for additional climate change reporting opportunities with GroundTruth that will continue
through 2018.

The work our team produces will be featured on all WGBH News platforms: Radio, TV and Digital and offered to our national editorial partners, including PRI’s The World, PBS NewsHour, PBS NOVA, MSNBC and others.

Reporting fellowship applicants can be from any country but must be early in their careers and show a demonstrated interest in, and unique talent for, covering the environment.

The deadline to submit an application for the fellowship is September 22, 2015.

GroundTruth is also seeking experienced editors to lead the project. Editors must have at
least three years experience reporting and editing, preferably with a focus on the environment.

For more information on both reporting fellowship and editor opportunities, please visit
our site: www.thegroundtruthproject.org.

Paid Fall Books Fellowship

Bustle Books seeks a fellow to work in-office at our New York HQ. The fellow will work closely with our books editor on daily features and news, but her primary responsibility will be to assist the editor with closely tracking each month’s new releases in both fiction and nonfiction, and writing the monthly preview feature.

Justice Fellow

Are you an early-career journalist looking to tell stories about compelling people and communities? Are you equally obsessed with justice for all and whatever Kendrick Lamar drops next? Do you admire the work of people like Brentin Mock and Ta-Nehisi Coates? Then Grist wants you!

Grist, the web’s home for green news, is looking for a justice fellow.

With the mentorship and support of Grist’s editorial staff, the justice fellow will report on the issues, communities, and people that don’t get enough play in the environmental movement. You’ll be called upon to make connections among the news, the environment, justice, policy, and pop culture. You will write multiple posts a week and work on one big project during the fellowship. You’ll have the option to work out of your home community. And you’ll get paid.