Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Adds Online Editing Internship
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund has added an online editing internship program for college students. The application postmark deadline is Nov. 1.
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The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund is inviting college students to apply for its 2007 online editing internship program, which re-joins the sports copy editing and general news copy editing roster of programs. For the 13th year, the Fund will seek applicants for its business reporting internship program.
The online internship program is made possible by a grant from Yahoo! News. One week of training at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, will precede 12 interns’ first day at work.
“Yahoo! News is pleased to work with the Newspaper Fund to help prepare a future generation of online editors,” said Neil Budde, general manager of Yahoo! News and a former Newspaper Fund intern. “Through our close partnerships with a wide range of news organizations, Yahoo! is deeply committed to the vitality of online news operations.”
News organizations can enroll now in the 2007 summer internships program to bring talented college sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students to their newsrooms. More than 600 students apply for Fund internships each year.
The Fund expects to select more than 100 interns as online editors and general news and sports copy editors. At least 12 internships will be offered to minority college sophomores and juniors who will work as business reporters at news organizations.
The Fund conducts an intensive nationwide search for bright, literate students pursuing all majors including journalism and mass communications as well as business. Intensive pre-internship training is the hallmark of Fund internship programs, which aim to bring students into newsrooms primed for success. Training is conducted on college campuses nationwide by veteran professors supported by visiting professional journalists.
Each program offers $1,000 scholarships to those returning to school full-time after their internships.
Participating newspapers agree to pay a minimum of $350 a week in regular wages and provide meaningful work. They support the cost of training interns through grants of $1,000 per intern for online and business reporting interns and of $1,800 per intern for general news and sports copy editors. Editors may request an intern by completing an enrollment form mailed to them this summer, calling the Fund at 609-452-2820 or on the Web at http://DJNewspaperFund.dowjones.com/fund/FormList.asp under the section for News Professionals.
Find PDFs of the applications at http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/forms/2007editingapp.pdf
and http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/forms/2007businessapp.pdf. Thousands of application forms have also been mailed to career placement offices, journalism schools, liberal arts professors and college newspapers. Additionally, application forms will be available at industry job fairs and campus communication conferences. Students can also request application forms by sending e-mail to the Fund at newsfund@wsj.dowjones.com with “application” in the subject line or by calling 609-452-2820. The application postmark deadline for all programs is Nov. 1.
Applicants for the editing programs must submit the form, a résumé, a typed list of courses and grades and an essay describing why a media recruiter would find the applicant a perfect copy editor. Online, news and sports editing applicants must take the Controlled Editing Exam from college professors called monitors. They are listed on the Web site at http://DJNewspaperFund.dowjones.com/fund/cs_monitorlist.asp. Applicants must take the test before Nov. 1. A student who does not have a designated campus monitor must ask a professor to administer the test and arrange, by Oct. 24, to have an exam sent to that professor.
Business reporting interns submit the form, a résumé, a typed list of courses and grades, three to five recent clips and an essay describing why they want to write about business for the summer. A reporting test, devised by the Fund, is sent to professors asked to serve as proctors by the applicants.
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, a nonprofit foundation supported by the Dow Jones Foundation and other newspaper companies, encourages students to pursue journalism careers. It offers copy editing seminars for college journalism professors and summer journalism workshops for minority high school students. It also publishes a career guide, The Journalist’s Road to Success, and its Spanish-language version, La ruta al éxito del periodista: Una guía de carrera.
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