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Company/Organization: LegiStorm

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LegiStorm, a disruptive congressional information service on Capitol Hill, is currently seeking full-time, paid research interns to work for a 10-week period in our Washington, D.C. office this fall (September-November 2014). LegiStorm offers positions to matriculating students and recent graduates who want to learn about how Congress works and gain experience with data in a congressional context. Interns who join our team will help uncover and release new treasure troves of data about Congress. With that new data, we hope to continue to push the boundaries of what kind of research is possible about how Congress works. Undergraduate and graduate interns have come to us from disciplines as varied as political science, economics, statistics, journalism, history, business and law, among others.

Interns will work a full 40-hour work week during normal business hours and receive a modest stipend to help defray their expenses. Internship beginning and end dates are flexible, but are expected to run for at least 10 weeks. Work will be performed on site at our office on Capitol Hill and may require periodic visits to congressional offices, located a few blocks away. Academic credit for internships is strongly encouraged but interns must arrange for credit through their own programs. Interns are mentored by our staff and individual academic plans may be tailored for each intern and staff mentor.

Our ideal intern is a matriculating undergraduate or graduate student who is motivated, organized, fast, accurate and has a strong interest in politics and research -- particularly web- and document-based research.

Hours:

9AM-5PM

Length/Availability:

10 Weeks

Start Date:

Flexible

End Date:

12/09/14, 09-01-2014, Flexible



Tags:
Research  LegiStorm  Congress  Hill  Web  Document  Journalism   
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LegiStorm

LegiStorm is a premiere non-partisan resource for transparency about who runs the U.S. Congress. Since our founding in 2006, we have been a daily resource for anyone interested in tracking the legislative branch.

We were the first web site in the country to publish the salaries of thousands of government employees - in our case, of all congressional staffers - spurring other web sites to follow in our footsteps across the world. We were the first - and still only - source to bring together a decade of data about how private interests have funded more than 30,000 travel getaways by members of Congress and their staff. We continued innovating by being the first web site to publish all personal financial disclosures filed by members of Congress and their staff. We followed that by being the first to publish all gifts provided to U.S. officials by foreign governments. And, thanks to our partners at the non-partisan Taxpayers for Common Sense who produced the data, we were the first to release a web site providing browsable and searchable access to all earmarks. The attention to these earmarks helped at least in small part to lead to their ban earlier this year. At times, our disclosures have been controversial - quite a few people on Capitol Hill have called on us to stop our disclosures and at least one bill was introduced that would effectively have done just that. But we continue to believe that the public has benefited greatly from our innovations. We have only just begun our commitment to providing innovative ways to harness congressional data that were previously inaccessible or underutilized. And we do so by cleverly marrying sophisticated technology with hard-nosed research - such a focus can only truly be appreciated by seeing how much we have invested in an expansive back-office infrastructure to support the current and future data needs of our site. Most importantly, we maintain demanding standards of thoroughness and accuracy required by our users. That commitment is what makes us a widely quoted source among top journalists, from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post.

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1375 Maryland Avenue, NE Loft B
Washington, DC 20002

Phone: 202-360-4172       Fax: 202-449-1123


Email:  congress@legistorm.com
Website:  LegiStorm

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