Journalism fellowship opportunity for trauma coverage

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships

Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events — on street crime and family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide — is a great challenge. Each year, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, based at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, selects six to ten journalists from the Americas, Europe and Australasia/New Zealand as Dart Center Ochberg Fellows, to help them deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and improve coverage of violence, conflict and tragedy.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships, a unique seminar program for mid-career journalists who want to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and improve coverage of violence, conflict and tragedy.

To learn more and apply online, please visit our website at www.dartcenter.org

Deadline: July 27, 2011

Multimedia internship @ Asia Society

Asia Society, a non profit education organization focused on improving relations between Asia and the U.S., is looking for a Multimedia Intern to help create editorial content for its award-winning website. Position is based in New York City.

Responsibilities:
The Multimedia Intern will primarily be focused on helping the Asia Society Online team produce rich-media editorial content for our institutional website (AsiaSociety.org). Interns may also be asked to help produce content for syndication through YouTube, Fora.tv, iTunes, and other content partners as well as non-video assignments such as writing for the blog and administrative tasks.

Requirements:
Applicants must be proficient in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, and Photoshop and should
possess strong video and audio editing skills. An understanding of social media (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.), some news writing/reporting experience, and strong web skills (HTML and CMS) are preferred.

Schedule:
Hours run about 10:00 am – 6:00 pm daily, with an hour for lunch. Days are flexible but we require 24 hours per week for about 9 – 12 weeks. Please indicate the days and hours you are available to work. A small honorarium of $750 and school credit will be available.

Deadline:
ASAP.

How to apply:
Please submit cover letter, resumé, and relevant video URLs to:
Shreeya Sinha
Producer, Asia Society Online
E-mail: ssinha@asiasociety.org

No phone calls, please. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. If you submit your resume by email, please regard it as having been received unless your email is bounced back.

Entry-level copy editor job @ Palm Beach Post

The Palm Beach Post has an opening for a news desk copy editor in the form of a yearlong internship. The job includes rimming copy, some page design, some light web work, and is on a five-day nightshift schedule. The internship comes with both benefits and a retention bonus at the end of the 12 months. Slotting experience is preferred, but not required. Applicants need to send cover letter, resume and references to Production Editor Rick Robb, The Palm Beach Post, 2751 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33405, or email Rick_Robb@pbpost.com.

Paid internship @ hyperlocal NYC news website

NearSay.com, a hyperlocal news website covering New York City, is offering paid summer editorial internships.

Qualifications:
- Passion for writing
- Previous experience reporting, conducting interviews
- Online Media / Journalism major
- Newshound with great research skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Great eye for detail
- Working knowledge of writing for the web, SEO
- Active on Twitter, StumbleUpon and other social media platforms
- Interest / Expertise / Appreciation / Knowledge of NYC Restaurants, Arts & Culture, Nightlife, Shopping and Real Estate

Duties:
- Curate local news
- Pitch / write original stories
- Research
- Attend Community Board meetings
- Promote content / NearSay through social media and street teams
- Secure press passes for events

To apply, email internships@nearsay.com with EDITORIAL INTERN in the subject line. Submit resume, clips and the answers to these questions:
1. What do you think the top 3 news stories in the East Village are in 2011?
2. What and where is Andrew Carmellinis newest restaurant?
3. What do these abbreviations stand for: MePa, FiDi, LES
4. Which former NYC mayor now has a bridge named after him?
5. Why do you want this internship?

Paid internship @ hyperlocal NYC news website

NearSay.com, a hyperlocal news website covering New York City, is offering paid summer editorial internships.

Qualifications:
- Passion for writing
- Previous experience reporting, conducting interviews
- Online Media / Journalism major
- Newshound with great research skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Great eye for detail
- Working knowledge of writing for the web, SEO
- Active on Twitter, StumbleUpon and other social media platforms
- Interest / Expertise / Appreciation / Knowledge of NYC Restaurants, Arts & Culture, Nightlife, Shopping and Real Estate

Duties:
- Curate local news
- Pitch / write original stories
- Research
- Attend Community Board meetings
- Promote content / NearSay through social media and street teams
- Secure press passes for events

To apply, email internships@nearsay.com with EDITORIAL INTERN in the subject line. Submit resume, clips and the answers to these questions:
1. What do you think the top 3 news stories in the East Village are in 2011?
2. What and where is Andrew Carmellinis newest restaurant?
3. What do these abbreviations stand for: MePa, FiDi, LES
4. Which former NYC mayor now has a bridge named after him?
5. Why do you want this internship?

Entry-level reporter for hospital magazine

ASC Communications, which produces publications for hospitals, seeks an entry-level reporter. Position is based in Chicago.

We are seeking a very smart, diligent and friendly person who loves to write and interview. The new writer will focus on our hospital and ambulatory surgery center publications, developing content for both our websites and print issues. Writing assignments include both news and feature articles around topic areas where the writer may be wholly responsible for covering his or her specific coverage area/beat.

The ideal candidate is a motivated self starter, who graduated from a top journalism program with a high GPA (ideally above 3.8) and is interested in a great career.  The candidate must have very good recommendations. For more information about our company, please visit www.beckershospitalreview.com or www.beckersasc.com or www.beckersorthopedicandspine.com.

Our offices are located in downtown Chicago. Health benefits and paid vacation provided.

If you would like to apply to the position, please provide a CV, cover letter and 2-3 writing samples to:
Lindsey Dunn, Editor in chief, Becker's Hospital Review (lindsey@beckershealthcare.com).

Paid Fall internships @ D.C.-based newspaper on higher ed

The Chronicle of Higher Education, a newspaper and website that covers higher education news, is seeking editorial interns for the Fall 2011 session. The internships are paid, full-time positions in our Washington office, and will run from September through December. Duties include reporting and writing brief features for our print edition, and daily news articles for our Web site. The application deadline is June 3. For details, please go to http://chronicle.com/section/Editorial-Internships/158/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en.

Paid newspaper internship for Lake County, Minn. student

The Lake County News-Chronicle, a small weekly newspaper located on the shores of Lake Superior about 40 minutes from Duluth, is offering a paid summer internship. It is available for any Lake County student who is in high school right now, including this Spring’s graduates.

Intern will work 20 hours a week for 10 weeks, June through August. The hours you work will depend on story assignments and other duties. There’s variety here, it’s not sitting at a desk all day. You’ll be out and about in the county, talking to people for feature stories on a menagerie of subjects.

You will get lots of support from News-Chronicle staff, references, and an experience to proudly post on future resumes.

If you are looking for the best summer job in the county, get details by calling Mike Creger at 834-2141 or emailing him at mcreger@lcnewschronicle.com. Parents, teachers, or mentors: If you know of someone who might be right for the job but perhaps a bit shy about dipping their toe into the water, let Mike know and he’ll do some prodding.

Summer internship @ Village Voice in NYC

The Village Voice, a 250,000-circulation alternative weekly newspaper in New York City, is offering paid summer internship.

Tell New Yorkers where to go and what to do in the city each week as an intern in the Village Voice's calendar department. Duties include pitching ideas to the editors of the calendar section, fact-checking event listings, researching events at various venues, writing brief event descriptions for our website, and contributing short weekly entertainment pieces (which do pay a little) to our Voice Choices section in print.

To apply, e-mail your résumé and clips (if you have them) to Angela Ashman at aashman@villagevoice.com.

Paid internship @ Congressional research website

A website that provides research for journalists and the public on Congress is offering a paid summer internship in Washington, D.C.

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.

Internship Description: We are seeking motivated summer interns with exceptional research skills to join our small team to help release a new treasure trove of data that we have gathered about the U.S. Congress. With that new data, we hope to continue to push the boundaries of what kind of research is possible about how Congress works.

Our summer internship is full-time, for a minimum of 10 weeks (flexible begin and end dates), with a monthly stipend of $1,000. For the right candidate, we would also consider part-time but unpaid internships, but because of the amount of training and staff attention it requires for us, we will limit this to compelling and seriously committed applicants.

LegiStorm's office is on Capitol Hill, albeit a mile from the Union Station metro (several convenient bus lines run within blocks). We offer a casual dress and informal (but still professional) work environment. The refrigerator is stocked with sodas and basic lunch materials. Our building has a relatively fully equipped gym at your disposal and our staff meetings are often held next to the building's beautiful outdoor pool.

Required Qualifications: Our ideal intern is a degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate student who is motivated, organized, self-directed, fast, accurate, diligent, politically interested, always questioning, and has the beginnings of some hard-core research skills. Journalism students who want to focus more on research than writing are particularly welcome (although some limited writing opportunities will be available to someone who shows interest and talent). Those pursuing history or library science careers may also particularly benefit from the intense research focus we provide. Regardless of degree, anyone who loves research - mostly web-based or document-based - is a suitable candidate.

How to Apply: To apply, send a cover letter detailing your qualifications and experience and your resume to congress at legistorm dot com. EEOC.

In your cover letter, mention the college football quarterback that LegiStorm's founder's wife likely cheered on this past year (and your reasoning, if you think it is required – right answers don't really require it). It will prove to us that you are serious and have basic research skills.

Additional Info: Additional information is available online, at http://www.legistorm.com/intern_ad.html