Company: SumoSkinny Media
Application Deadline: Available Year-round
Position: 5 Part-time, Unpaid
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Description
SUMOskinny is the ultimate guide to college life. Part local, part national, and all college. We deploy the best of the best to keep you in the know on all things happening on your campus, in your community, nationally and on the Internet. We cannot keep our readers up to date on what’s trending in college without our amazing writing correspondents. Our campus correspondents are 100% college students because they are the ones that know what their peers like best. All campus correspondents will start as a local contributor to the site, however they will be able to “unlock” different levels of writing, allowing them national exposure.
This internship is designed for journalism students interested in building their portfolio and honing their skills. Students work with our team of editorial staff to develop practical journalism experience in a young and creative manor.
Responsibilities
WEEKLY REQUIREMENTS
Content Creation: you will be required to create approximately 3-4 local stories a week on topics assigned to you or that of your choosing. Note: stories should be around 500 words.
Social Media Requirements: you are required to use social medias to promote all of your published stories on SumoSkinny. Additionally you are required to “like” and “retweet” at minimum one separate SumoSkinny posts.
MONTHLY REQUIREMENTS
Student Spotlight Features: you are required to create two student spotlight features a month. These stories will involve more research than a weekly content and will require interviews, photos and journalism investigation. You will be required to pitch your idea to me for my approval before you begin your research on your students or student organizations.
Requirements
All interns must be enrolled in college. All interns are required to have Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts. All work must be fact-checked for accuracy, with proper citations and credits.
