Paid summer internships @ Newark Star-Ledger

The Newark Star-Ledger, a 236,000-circulation daily newspaper located near New York City, is offering paid Summer 2011 internships for 12 weeks in news, features, sports, graphics, copy desk and photo departments. May work weekends; car is necessary. Deadline to apply is Nov. 15.

Undergraduates/graduate students with at least one daily print internship or strong college newspaper experience, preferably as a top editor, are eligible to apply.

Application packages must include a cover letter, resume, five story or copy editing clips, the names and phone numbers of three references and a 500-word essay: Why I Want to be a Print Journalist.

Clips must be on 8 ½ by 11-inch paper only; CDs preferred for graphic and photography candidates.

If you want to submit your application electronically, please send it to summer2011@starledger.com. Try to keep file sizes reasonable.

Snail mail materials to:
2011 Summer Intern Program
The Star-Ledger
One Star Ledger Plaza
Newark, NJ 07102-1200

Questions: Call LaDonna Cromartie at 973-392-4040