Description:

Print editorial interns at Tikkun gain hands-on experience in magazine editing. At Tikkun—unlike at many other national magazines, where interns often find themselves fetching coffee and making photocopies—editorial interns play a central role in evaluating submissions and proofing each issue of the magazine. Editorial interns review every submission that comes in, bringing promising articles to the attention of the editorial staff. They also write teasers for the table of contents and for our featured stories on our online blog. This internship is very selective and has the potential to launch students into careers in magazine journalism. Editorial interns may have the opportunity to publish an article, but we make no guarantees—interns’ submissions are subjected to the same strict standards as any other submissions to the magazine.

Web editorial interns at Tikkun scour the blogosphere for posts to which they think Tikkun’s daily site should respond. They play a central role in finding, managing, and proofing content for the magazine’s multimedia blog site, Tikkun Daily (www.tikkun.org/daily). Web editorial interns become intimately familiar with the world of spiritual and political journalists, academics, and bloggers. They spend hours searching the Web for articles and videos about tikkun-ish topics to which our site should link. Web editorial interns with strong writing skills and professionalism will be asked to write monthly profile pieces for our multimedia blog site, Tikkun Daily. Those Web interns who are familiar enough with the magazine to have fully grasped its worldview and who demonstrate outstanding reporting and writing skills may eventually be invited to blog regularly, as well.

Qualifications:

Candidates for the print editorial position must be familiar with Tikkun magazine and interested in its coverage of politics and spirituality. They must be hawk-eyed proofreaders with an obsessive attention to detail, a professional work ethic, and a willingness to study the Chicago Manual of Style and Tikkun’s in-house style guide.

Candidates for the web editorial position must also be Web-savvy blog readers with an interest in multimedia-storytelling and a familiarity with the conventions of online journalism.

Paid Internship Info:

unpaid internship

Hours:

a minimum of 20 hours per week

Length/Availability:

three months to one year

Start Date:

June 1 (not set in stone)

End Date:

08/15/10, August 15 (not set in stone)

How to Apply:

Email a self-revealing cover letter, resume, and two writing samples to internships.tikkun@gmail.com. In your cover letter, describe your background in journalism and editing and explain why you are capable of doing first-rate work in this capacity. If we are interested in your application, we will contact you and ask you to complete an additional assignment. NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE.

Deadline:

April 1 deadline for summer internships

Tags:

magazine  editorial  journalism  web  blog  media  multimedia  copy-editing  proofreading 

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