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Oct. 11, 2019
Who is ready for fall break??? I know I am! 😄✌️
Whether you're staying around Chapel Hill, heading home or going to a fun destination, enjoy your time off of school... but not so much that ya don't come back 🥴
Going✈️relax.
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HUSSMAN SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Google Event -- General Info Session for Non-Technical Students
Join Google for an Info Session diving into company culture, values, interview tips, and internship & full-time opportunities! Tar Heel alumni will share their experiences at Google and talk about the BOLD Internship and full time roles in HR, Marketing, Sales, Finance and more. While all students are welcome, this session will focus specifically on Non-tech roles.
The event will be held on Thursday, Oct 24, from 6-7 p.m. in Carroll 33.
Click here to RSVP.
Google Event -- Reception for Communities Underrepresented in Tech
Join an intimate discussion for students who identify as members of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, veterans and/or disability communities to join us to learn more about unique opportunities at Google. Current Google employees (and Tar Heels!) will also provide insights on the application process as well as how they engage with their identified communities at Google.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Oct 22, from 5-6:30 p.m. at the AC Marriott.
Click here to RSVP.
Public Relations Student Society of America
PRSSA is holding a meeting on Thursday, October 24th at 7 p.m. in the Freedom Forum Conference Center (Carroll 305).
There will be free food, open exec. member positions and your chance to provide feedback!
Crash Campaign
Crash Campaign is a fast-paced student competition that takes place over 24 hours in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media on Nov. 8 - 10. Students are able to participate in a unique professional opportunity that allows them to gain experience and showcase their talent. Students compete in teams to solve local business and nonprofit marketing problems using learned skills.
Registration closes on Oct. 25 so click here to apply today!
Computational Journalism Classes
To access a list of classes in computational journalism, along with their syllabi, click here.
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INTERNSHIPS
PAID INTERNSHIPS
Multiple Positions -- The Dallas Morning News / Multiple Locations
The Dallas Morning News, Texas’ leading newspaper, offers paid internships in news, copy editing, business, features, audience, sports and digital design/data. Internships are also available in photography, at the Washington, D.C., bureau and at their Spanish-language publication, Al Día. Most internships take place during the summer, but the sports internship occurs during the fall, generally starting around Labor Day.
Applicants must be enrolled in college and working toward a degree (associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate), or they may have graduated within six months of the internship start date. Previous daily newspaper experience is requested. College internships are full time for 10 to 12 weeks, and interns are paid $15 an hour for a 40-hour work week. Interns should have a car in good working condition.
To learn more and apply, click here. Applications are due November 1st.
PJI Internship -- POLITICO / Arlington, VA
POLITICO’s mission from the very beginning was to win the audience. They dedicate themselves to providing accurate, nonpartisan, impactful information to the right people at the right time so that they can act with confidence and speed. POLITICO experiments to avoid being disrupted and they have fun disrupting others. And they are not afraid to risk failure if it means being the best at what they do.
The POLITICO Journalism Institute is an educational program (running from May 26, 2020-June 5, 2020) offering intensive, hands-on training for at least 12 university students or recent college graduates who are interested in covering government and politics.
Programming for PJI includes interactive sessions, panels with industry leaders, mentor pairings with POLITICO journalists and an opportunity for participants to have their work published by POLITICO. Throughout the program, PJI participants split their time between American University in Washington, D.C., and POLITICO headquarters in Arlington, Va. All costs for attending PJI, including room, board and transportation, are covered by POLITICO.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Newsroom Engineering Internship -- The Washington Post / Washington, DC
How would you use code to help the Washington Post cover elections? Their newsroom engineering team is looking for curious, creative and upbeat students from interesting backgrounds to work with them to craft the next iteration of the live election night for our readers. Our team includes software engineers, data scientists, data visualization engineers and possibly you!
They do most of the software engineering in Node with Next.js and React. They do most of the data science work in Python. Their data visualizations are most often built with D3. They deploy applications to Amazon Web Services. If you work with tools like these, you'll likely fit in with them technologically. If you haven't worked with all of these tools yet, that's okay! None of them is a requirement for applying.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Multiple Positions -- National Public Radio (NPR) / Multiple Locations
From day one, interns at NPR are given real-world, hands-on responsibilities. Working alongside top professionals in the field, interns do meaningful work across a variety of departments at NPR. Find out how you can contribute your diverse talents to gain invaluable experience at the heart of a thriving multimedia organization.
Interns at NPR play a vital role in NPR's daily operations in almost every division of the organization — from NPR News and Music, to Communications and Engineering. Interns are also offered a broad variety of training opportunities. And here's the best part — you don't have to be an intern to start learning.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Public Relations Apprentice -- Day One Agency / New York, NY
Day One Agency is looking to add to their quickly-growing team with a self-motivated, paid PR Apprentice who will be instrumental in supporting their PR teams through day-to-day account assignments on marquee global accounts.
The two-month Apprentice Program is a paid program designed to offer the opportunity to learn about our award-winning business, gain valuable experience and work directly with team members as a lead into full time consideration for an Account Coordinator position at the conclusion of the apprenticeship. Since implementing the Apprentice Program, a number of their Apprentices have moved into full time positions.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Multicultural Advertising Internship Program
The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's), selects students to work at prestigious advertising agencies throughout the U.S., interact with advertising professionals, and gain valuable professional credentials to land
that first job in the industry. The program not only pairs students with top agencies throughout the country and ensures paid internship experience, but also provides subsidized travel and housing in their host agency city.
It's a 22-week fellowship program (12 weeks of virtual online training and a 10-week agency internship experience)that will help students hone their skills in one of eighteen disciplines—including PR. Learn more about each discipline here.
To learn more about the program, its eligibility requirements and how to apply, click here.
Sports Media Internships -- Association for Women in Sports Media / Multiple Locations
AWSM will award up to eight female college students a $1,000 scholarship and placement in a paid internship in one of four fields: sports writing, broadcast production, social media and media relations.
The 2019 AWSM scholars spent their summers working at ESPN, MLB.com, USA Today, CNN, the Sporting News, Sports Illustrated and USA Softball. The 2020 placements will be announced at a later date.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Fall Internship Program -- Warren for President / Remote
The Warren for President team is building a grassroots movement and needs your help. They need skilled organizers, communicators, writers, designers, wonks and more who are interested in applying their talents and learning new skills to help make big, structural change.
Interns will play a key role in helping build the grassroots organization they need to win the Democratic nomination for president. They will participate in campaign training, receive structured coaching and support, and work closely with staff to implement their plan to persuade and mobilize Democratic voters.
To learn more and apply, click here.
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UNPAID INTERNSHIPS
Editorial Intern -- Our State Magazine / Greensboro, NC
Our State magazine is hiring for their spring 2020 internship program!
Internships positions are for 10 hours a week, unpaid, and offer opportunity for experience in several areas: research, proofreading, writing, and editing. Interns also help with fact-checking, indexing, assembling copy for the website, and other general duties for the print magazine and digital platforms. Our State interns work closely with the editorial team and have the opportunity to produce portfolio-worthy clips. They prefer students who are pursuing a degree in journalism or English. Experience working on a student or local publication is a huge plus.
Students interested in applying for an internship should send a cover letter, resume, writing samples, and a story pitch to the editorial department at editorial@ourstate.com. Please list “INTERNSHIP” in the subject line of any email communication.
The deadline for the spring 2020 internship is November 15. Please email editorial@ourstate.com with any questions.
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JOBS
Graphic Designer -- San Francisco 49ers / San Francisco, CA
The San Francisco 49ers are looking for a talented designer to support all marketing efforts through the design of forward thinking creative graphic elements that maintain the continuity of the 49ers brand throughout multiple collateral platforms including print, publications, online, e-mail marketing, in-stadium, promotional products, direct mail, etc. The designer must be a collaborate team player who understands the importance of communication and welcomes constant feedback. Creativity, hard work, a positive attitude and dedication are musts.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Copywriter -- Well Refined / Multiple Locations
Do you love helping brands build relationships with their audience through compelling and engaging copywriting? Do you thrive under the challenge of creating content that drives people to action? Do you understand that every piece of copy you create requires you to adopt a client’s unique voice and mission, understand a target audience’s pain points and motivations and optimize visibility through SEO or hashtags?
If you said yes to these questions, you may be a good fit for the Well Refined team! Your role will be to help clients with marketing strategy, copywriting, editing, and content creation. You’ll help clients shape their brand, tell their story, and grow their reach.
Together, with Well Refined's team of writers, designers, and strategists, you’ll serve their clients, helping their ideas to thrive and change the world.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Marketing Communications Manager -- National WIC Association / Washington, DC
The National WIC Association seeks a Marketing Communications Manager. The incumbent will manage NWA marketing, promotions, recruitment, and advertising strategies and activities for the Association and WIC. This includes producing marketing materials and publications for the Association, supporting a national WIC recruitment and retention campaign and advertising NWA conferences, events and products.
The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in communications or related field and a minimum of three years of relevant work experience. A Master’s degree is preferred. The candidate will have excellent verbal and writing skills, graphic design skills and be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Ability to manage major organizational social media platforms a must. HTML skills is preferable.
The full job description can be found here.
To apply, send a cover letter and curriculum vitae along with 2 writing samples and salary requirements to jobs@nwica.org.
Digital Marketing Manager -- UNC University Development Office / Chapel Hill, NC
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a creative, detail-oriented and strategically minded professional for the position of Digital Marketing Manager in the Office of University Development. Reporting to the Digital Marketing Director, the Digital Marketing Manager will join a fast-paced marketing team that supports and celebrates all aspects of private giving at the University, including the University’s historic $4.25 billion fundraising campaign, For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina.
The Digital Marketing Manager will work collaboratively to develop and implement University Development’s owned digital media marketing strategy by using email and social media platforms to authentically engage internal and external constituencies of the University Development Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Associate Director for Communications and Strategy -- UNC Center for the Study of the American South / Chapel Hilll, NC
The Associate Director for Communications and Strategy at the Center for the Study of the American South leads the work to deliver the Center’s scholarship and research directly to public audiences, including the work of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), Southern Cultures (SC), and the pan-University Southern Futures initiative. They will extend the Center’s academic work to impact local, regional, and national issues. Communicating with partners is an important aspect of this leadership, and the Associate Director will set, guide and implement the strategy for all such communications activities including: messaging and content development, website, news media placement, social media, and collateral materials designed to advance the partnerships that enhance the Center’s research and publication, increase its visibility, and engage its target audiences.
The Associate Director will support purposeful partnerships with on- and off-campus partners to bring community concerns in direct relationship to the Center’s research and publication work. The Associate Director will assist the Director in implementing organization-wide strategic plans. Reporting to the Center’s Director, this position is part of the Center’s leadership team and is responsible for a communications budget. This position will supervise a permanent employee (to be hired), undergraduate interns, and/or independent contractors.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Audience Producer -- WAMU 88.5 / Washington, DC
WAMU 88.5 is the leading public radio station for news and information in the greater Washington, D.C. area. Our newsroom is built on the core principles of editorial independence free of outside influence and journalism based on facts, verification, transparency, diverse voices, and the courage to embrace controversy. Deeply committed to the D.C. metro area, WAMU 88.5 produces distinctive programming that reflects the unique environment of our region and connects Washingtonians with each other and the world.
The Audience Producer serves as the primary editorial voice for the WAMU newsroom on social media. The position is also the driving force behind the newsroom’s daily editorial newsletter. In collaboration with newsroom leadership, the Audience Producer develops multi-platform audience engagement plans for reporters, beats, individual stories, special projects and other initiatives. The position moderates online conversations across multiple platforms and executes social media coverage during breaking news and major regional events. The Audience Producer uses analytics to inform content decisions and shares questions and themes presented by WAMU’s audience to newsroom leadership.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Business Development Coordinator -- Rubenstein / New York, NY
Rubenstein is seeking a Business Development Coordinator to support the firm’s business development function.
The Business Development Coordinator will provide strategic support for the business development team. This person will assist with research, writing, editing, proofreading, presentations, compiling reports, project management requests, and will also handle administrative tasks (i.e., answering phones, scheduling).
To learn more and apply, click here.
Account Coordinator -- Rubenstein / New York, NY
Rubenstein seeks an Account Coordinator to provide public relations support for account executives and account teams across the firm.
The Account Coordinator will assist with media research and outreach, presentations, and project coordination; build media lists and databases; and compile client reports. Additionally, the Account Coordinator will respond to basic client and media requests. This role may also have writing, proofreading and pitching responsibilities.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Associate Director for Communications and Strategy -- UNC Center for the Study of the American South / Chapel Hill, NC
The Associate Director for Communications and Strategy at the Center for the Study of the American South leads the work to deliver the Center’s scholarship and research directly to public audiences, including the work of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), Southern Cultures (SC), and the pan-University Southern Futures initiative. He or she will extend the Center’s academic work to impact local, regional, and national issues. Communicating with partners is an important aspect of this leadership, and the Associate Director will set, guide and implement the strategy for all such communications activities including: messaging and content development, website, news media placement, social media, and collateral materials designed to advance the partnerships that enhance the Center’s research and publication, increase its visibility, and engage its target audiences.
The Associate Director will support purposeful partnerships with on- and off-campus partners to bring community concerns in direct relationship to the Center’s research and publication work. The Associate Director will assist the Director in implementing organization-wide strategic plans. Reporting to the Center’s Director, this position is part of the Center’s leadership team and is responsible for a communications budget. This position will supervise a permanent employee (to be hired), undergraduate interns, and/or independent contractors.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Graphic Designer -- UNC Admissions / Chapel Hill, NC
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a creative, committed, and clear-minded professional to fill the position of Graphic Designer in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. This graphic designer will join the communications team to develop integrated marketing efforts designed to help the University recruit and enroll a diverse and talented student body while celebrating the achievements of prospective students and providing great care to those students, their families, and all others who interact with the office. This position will work to lead all design efforts in order to create integrated communications and marketing concepts , intelligently designed with appropriate executions across numerous platforms including print, email, digital, video, and social media, collaborate with other members of the communications team and assume primary responsibility for designing communications efforts. This position requires the ability to work in a team environment and is responsible for collaborating to execute all phases of communications — including design concept development, timeline management, production, and delivery of design concepts across multiple channels (e.g. print, digital, video, and email). This position will have primary responsibility for the design-related aspects of communications efforts, which requires the ability to fully understand and embrace the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill brand, empathize with and understand the motivations of the Office’s various audiences, and monitor and master emerging design trends and practices.
Successful candidates will demonstrate strong design skills, skills in analytical thinking; an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively; a detail oriented nature; the ability to work well with colleagues, students, parents, and educators and treat all with great care; and a commitment to Carolina’s mission to identify and recruit a diverse and exceptionally talented student body.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Marketing and Communications Manager -- Carolina Performing Arts / Chapel Hill, NC
Reporting to the Associate Director of Marketing and Communications, the Marketing and Communications Manager will be responsible for developing and managing Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) marketing content in support of all promotional and communications efforts. Duties include strategizing, creating, scheduling, and tracking posted content across social media platforms; design and delivery of CPA promotional and informational html emails; oversight and general maintenance of the carolinaperformingarts.org website; carolinaperformingarts.org dynamic content updates; project management of all CPA program books; proofing and editing CPA promotional and informational print materials; and researching and pursuing other online engagement opportunities that arise in this ever-changing field.
To learn more and apply, click here.
Information and Communications Specialist -- NC Department of Environmental Quality / Carteret County, NC
The primary purposes of this position is to support the mission of the DEQ's Division of Coastal Management in Morehead City through communications and outreach. The position is responsible for dissemination of error-free information in a customer-centric, concise, timely and professional manner that can be understood by the general public. The position provides effective communications to DEQ employees and other internal audiences by actively supporting DEQ and Division leadership and administrative support groups. Position provides communications support and counsel to all DEQ and DCM staff. Position designs and maintains web and social media properties that inform the public in an effective and customer-friendly manner to enhance the mission, initiatives and priorities of the Division.
To learn more and apply, click here.
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OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Student Press Law Center's List of Paid Journalism Internships
Every month, the Student Press Law Center publishes a list of paid journalism internships. Here are more than 30 spring and summer internships with upcoming deadlines.
How to Prepare for the Dow Jones News Fund Editing Test
It’s Dow Jones season. That’s when journalism students apply for editing internships with the Dow Jones News Fund. Interns will work at news organizations across the country in summer 2020.
The application includes a one-hour test that assesses skills in story editing, headline writing, word choice and current events. Here are some tips on how to get ready for this closed-book test.
Newsroom Internship Database
The Lead has compiled a spreadsheet that includes information on paid newsroom internships for summer 2020. To access the spreadsheet, click here.
Fellowship Opportunities with Lead for America
The LFA Fellowship program selects, trains, and places promising young leaders ages 21-30 in two-year paid fellowships in local community organizations as a means of strengthening America’s public institutions, revitalizing our local communities, and cultivating a new generation of transformational civic leaders. Our Fellows are catalysts for a much larger revitalization and are deeply committed to supporting their community’s flourishing. To be an LFA Fellow is to deeply commit to another way of moving through the world.
To learn more and apply, click here.
MindSumo
Have you heard of MindSumo? MindSumo is a crowd sourcing platform that connects college students to businesses through online projects called "Challenges.” By working on challenges, students can earn cash, gain valuable experience, and impress potential future employers. Over the years, the best students on MindSumo have won tens of thousands of dollars for their innovative ideas, and many have landed jobs at some of the world's top companies like P&G, Nike, PepsiCo, Accenture and others. MindSumo has worked with the Hussman School of Journalism and Media inside and outside the class.
Click here to learn more!
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Need to schedule an appointment with Jay Eubank, Hussman Careers Director, or Jenn Sipe, Hussman Careers Assistant Director? Please go to: http://unc.live/2xYnj3K
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