Position: Editorial Intern
Responsibilities:
About.com is looking for an editorial intern for the summer of 2011. The intern will work with channel editors across About.com to learn the basics of web publishing by getting hands-on experience. Specific tasks include working with editors on the following:
- Hone your editorial judgment by selecting content to showcase and writing compelling headlines and blurbs for content. Learn how to find and choose stock photography using resources such as Getty Images.
- Learn how to spot qualified writing candidates and weed out low-quality ones.
- Practice the basics of blogging by writing posts for selected sites on a variety of topics.
- Learn how to build editorial packages by selecting content and writing copy for editorial specials and "super sites" covering a variety of topics, including health and parenting. This will include writing and making editorial decisions.
- Gain an understanding of the competitive landscape in online publishing. Use your understanding of the web and social media to help editors do competitive analysis and identify opportunities to increase inbound links.
- Gain exposure to social media by helping monitor and moderate topic-focused Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
- Understand the role of metrics in web publishing. Get experience analyzing site metrics to make decisions about future coverage. This will include using analytical thinking skills to make decisions.
- Get experience using a proprietary content management system to update and edit existing content and do other basics of site maintenance.
- Summer interns are eligible to attend intern training and networking events organized by The New York Times Co.
Qualifications:
Interns must be eligible to receive academic credit and should be available at least 15 hours a week.
Strong proofreading and writing skills required
Candidate must be familiar with website navigation.
Experience writing for the web (beyond personal sites or blogs) is preferred
Experience with a content management system for web publishing is preferred
Must be able to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks efficiently
Should be open to learning new technologies and comfortable working with a variety of topics, including health.
You will assist the news and features teams in story and picture research, carrying out interviews, and writing for publications in the UK, the USA and internationally. The position also involves TV/ documentary research, helping on video and photo shoots, and editorial assistant duties. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and diligent student journalist to work on major stories and have a head-start in their media career.
Etsy’s editors are seeking a full-time paid intern who is NYC-based and able to work from our Brooklyn office for a term of six months. We're a tight-knit group of writers, editors and video producers. Our blog (http://blog.etsy.com) is geared towards readers interested in culture and style. We’re curious about people and what they make, exchange and consume. By looking around at the stuff that matters to our lives, we believe we can understand more about what moves us as human beings. On our blog, we uncover the personal stories behind the makers and collectors on Etsy. We highlight the most eye-catching, provocative and forward-thinking products. We report on issues that matter to our community, like buying responsibly, eating well and supporting independent businesses and artists. We curate the must-reads of the blogosphere for our readers.
About the Internship
In this internship you will gain experience:
- Working for a company with a very passionate online community.
- Writing and editing for a broad array of readers.
- Coming up with creative ways to do visual merchandising.
- Participating in a collaborative work-flow at a growing Internet company.
Your responsibilities will be:
- Proof posts and edit for content, style and editorial voice.
- Produce graphic layouts, handle formatting and merchandising.
- Opportunities to write original posts.
About You
- Previous experience in online or print editorial, copy-editing, writing, researching and reporting.
- Knowledge of the landscape of lifestyle and culture publications online, in print and broadcast.
- Previous experience with photo editing. Great Photoshop skills are a must.
- Merchandising or styling experience. Great taste is a must!
- Basic HTML knowledge, deep familiarity with blogging software (such as WordPress).
- Professional and personable communication skills in dealing with colleagues, customers and online community.
- Self-motivated in completing projects. Ability to roll with the punches in a fast-paced environment.
- Detail-oriented with very high standards.
- Passionate about blogging and new media content, especially in regards to DIY, fashion, entrepreneurship.
- Career goals at the intersection of editorial, new media, community, art and culture.
- Curious mind.
Slate.com's New York office is still looking for talented applicants for a summer internship with the Photo and Art department. Applicants must be matriculated students, available at least 15 hours a week for 10-12 weeks starting around June 13. Candidates must be highly organized with strong visual aptitude and be able to work independently in a fast-paced environment. Interns will gain hands-on experience editing photos and selecting art for an award-winning online magazine. This is an editing — not shooting — internship, however motivated interns could have opportunities to work on special projects and publish their work. This internship is unpaid.
The PBS weekly newsmagazine show “Need to Know” is seeking journalism interns for its daily website.
The web intern will: assist web editors with story research, booking, social media outreach, posting video, and a variety of tasks related to running the site, as well as short writing assignments. Interns with a broadcast journalism focus might also edit video.
The ideal candidate has proven reporting and writing skills and great story ideas. We are seeking someone who really gets the web and wants to write for a web audience. A strong working knowledge of Final Cut Pro are pluses. Boundless enthusiasm a must.
This is a solid hands-on internship in which to develop job skills and build a portfolio.
The internship is unpaid but can be done for credit, begins in May or June and lasts through August.
Description:
Asia Society, a prestigious non-profit institution dedicated to forging closer ties between Asia and the United States, is looking for a talented Online Reporting Intern to craft event write-ups and blog posts and perform other administrative tasks for its award-winning website. The ideal candidate would be a web savvy journalism student with a strong interest in and connection to Asia, its people and issues.
Responsibilities/Requirements:
The Online Reporting Intern should be a versatile and inquisitive writer, equally comfortable interviewing a foreign ambassador as he or she is covering the opening of an art exhibit. Candidates should be experienced users of blogging content management systems, such as Drupal and WordPress, and social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook. Although not required, it is preferred that the Online Reporting Intern have proficiency in an Asian language and basic skills shooting and editing photos and videos. The Online Reporting Intern also needs to be willing to perform other duties at times, such as copyediting and data entry.
Schedule:
The Online Reporting Intern is expected to work at least 20 hours per week, for a minimum of nine to 12 weeks, at Asia Society headquarters on Park Avenue. Specific schedules can be designed to meet the individual needs of the intern. Please indicate the days and hours you are available to work in your application. The Online Reporting Intern receives a one-time honorarium of $750. School credit is available.
VIVmag, a digital luxury lifestyle magazine for women, seeks a summer editorial intern to work in its New York office 2-3 days (between 15-20 hours) a week, June through August. Responsibilities include fact checking, writing blog entries, researching stories, reformatting magazine articles for the website, working in WordPress and calling in images, as well as packing, shipping and returning photo shoot products. Must be a detail-oriented self-starter who is able to work independently. Journalism majors preferred; an interest in covering fashion, beauty, health, fitness, nutrition and green living also a plus.
ShermansTravel.com, the web's leading source for travel deals and destination advice, is looking for an editorial intern to work closely with the online editorial team for approximately 20 hours per week in our Midtown office. This position will give the right candidate a strong introduction to web publishing and editorial production. Well-traveled, hard-working individuals with a working knowledge of online publishing and a passion for writing and the world are encouraged to apply. Primary duties will include fact-checking, researching, data entry, and opportunities to contribute to online and/or print articles.
Do you:
- Strive to be the first to announce breaking news to your friends by sharing interesting links?
- Consider yourself to be a pop culture junkie?
- Think you're a human Wikipedia of current events?
- Always know what story is going to be talked about for the next week?
- Scare people with the amount of random (yet somehow relevant) knowledge you know?
- Always surf Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for the newest stories?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, come intern for a new CBSNews.com web TV show and blog featuring Emmy nominated TV and web personality Shira Lazar! We're looking for an intern who loves to write about today's and tomorrow's most relevant stories, which we believe can be anything from what's going on in world news to quirky local politics to what viral video you're watching today.
The position will be based out of the CBS News office in New York City. We can offer the peculiar smells of Midtown Manhattan and overpriced hot dogs and falafels at almost every street corner.
Newsday.com is seeking multimedia interns to work on our website. The ideal candidate will be hard-working, meticulous, self-motivated and a team player with previous newspaper and online experience.
The editorial internship is intensely hands-on, and a number of previous interns have been hired as full-time employees. You will be publishing stories, photos, polls and other multimedia extras; writing blog posts; and coordinating with reporters, editors and others to keep fresh content flowing to the site. You may also be assigned to write stories and assist with breaking news.
You will also assist in the production of longer-term multimedia projects. Previous projects have included multi-part articles, a special report on Alzheimer's and a comprehensive voters guide.
Interns may also be assigned to work specifically on the Long Island news section of the site, or Sports, Entertainment or ExploreLI (our local destination and event-based section).
The multimedia internship requires candidates to report to Newsday's Melville office.
If you are interested in applying for this position, e-mail your resume to Rachel.Senatore@newsday.com.