Intern, Digital - Marketplace
About The Position
The Marketplace digital team seeks a creative, motivated intern who has an active interest in business and economic journalism. This internship will provide support to the digital team, which is responsible for our website and newsletters. You will have an opportunity to work alongside editors, reporters, and producers with a focus on making sure the website is kept current and engaging. You will learn how to strengthen skills in reporting, writing, homepage curation, SEO and remote teamwork. The goal of this internship is to provide immersive learning and real-world experience through impactful projects. Our goal for you is to: Gain insight into the journalism industry and Marketplace’s properties: in addition to original reporting for the website, the digital team works across the newsroom with radio and podcasting teams Learn how to help the website team drive audience engagement and help further our mission to raise the economic intelligence of the country Get tangible experience in daily website homepage curation for a journalism organization Hone your reporting and writing skills
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a college or university, or graduated within the past 18 months
- Available full-time (40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.) throughout the internship
- Self-starter with an interest in journalism and how economic news intersects with people’s lives
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and work both independently and collaboratively
- A team player who is accountable, proactive, and solution oriented
Nice To Haves
- Journalism coursework or experience (digital writing and editing preferred)
- Ability to create charts, maps graphs for the website a plus but not required
- Working knowledge of Content Management Systems
- Working knowledge of Photoshop
- Working knowledge of AP style
Responsibilities
- Help to source, optimize, and place relevant images into digital stories
- Research and add links to Marketplace stories
- Work with team members to rewrite radio stories into website articles
- Use SEO best practices to help come up with headlines
- Join the digital team meetings and trainings
- As time permits, can pitch, report, and write original articles with your own byline to be published on Marketplace.org
Benefits
- Eligible to accrue sick time off
- Eligible for health insurance as required under the ACA
- Eligible to participate in the APMG retirement plan
- Participate in a robust onboarding experience
- Professional development: on-the-job training, workforce readiness training, formal performance review feedback sessions, etc.
- Participate in brown bag sessions to gain broader perspectives of the organization
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
