Are you a slave to detail? A grammar guru? A word wizard? You'll spend time honing your copyediting and fact-checking skills. Are you a private eye at heart? Do you enjoy looking past the front-page news to find the inside story? Then dig up what's going on behind closed doors while writing for milwaukeenewsbuzz.com and the print edition of Milwaukee Magazine. Are you a trend-seeker? Write mini-reviews of the city's latest in everything and contribute to blogs at insidemilwaukee.com. Are you an organizer? Collect and sift through information on a long-term feature story project, working with top freelance writers and our editors.
You get the idea.
Our semester- and summer-long internships give you hands-on experience. You'll be given assignments and deadlines. You'll accompany writers on interviews. You'll dig up public records and make phone calls. Interns are encouraged to take part in editorial meetings and offer opinions and story ideas. Past interns have gone on to work for Maxim, New York magazine, the Milwaukee mayor's office, a New York publishing house, the Associated Press, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Waukesha Freeman. Several have also returned to Milwaukee Magazine.
Who is an editorial intern?
Our interns are juniors or seniors in college, graduate students or post grads. Prospective interns should have taken classes in reporting and writing for publication. They should be writing for a school or community newspaper or magazine and be able to supply at least three good writing samples of published work, not papers for an English class. Interns should already have developed solid reporting skills that they now want to practice and hone. They should be able to track people down, scour public records, conduct interviews and find information. They should possess strong grammar and AP Style skills, and be able to write in a variety of styles. Interns should demonstrate an eagerness to learn and an ability to build upon constructive criticism to improve their work.
Editorial internship applications can be e-mailed or mailed to:
Cristina Daglas, Assistant Editor
Milwaukee Magazine
126 N. Jefferson St., Suite 100
Milwaukee, WI 53202-5802
OR
cristina.daglas@milwaukeemagazine.com
What we need:
Cover letter and résumé with references; three clips of published work that best demonstrate your potential for magazine writing and reporting.
- Location: Milwaukee
- Compensation: $7.25 an hour; 15 hours a week
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