Music Internship

As a music intern with WJMS you will be assisting with the following:

• Weekly artist interviews from any genre.
• Coordinate the scheduling of interviews, edit interviews and submit them by weekly deadline. 
• Album reviews of new music (as needed but at least twice a month). Content to be posted on social media
• Scout new music to feature on our social media each week. 
• Create a featured artist of the month segment. Featured on website and in newsletter.
• Help curate an unsigned artist playlist of 7-10 songs biweekly. Tracks used for business features can be included. No artists with less than 1,000 followers. Artists must promote to remain in rotation. Housed on Spotify/Soundcloud.
• Help promote the artists by sharing their pages and music and collaborating with the social media intern to promote via WJMS Social Media outlets.

HOURS:

The hours of this internship are very flexible. We simply ask that you put in the effort required to represent the business professionally. 

STATION SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• At WJMS, we are big on engagement and follows on our social media. As an intern of WJMS Media you will be required to like, share, and/or engage with our social media posts on a regular basis. 
• As a WJMS Intern you will also be required to listen our shows each week and post in real time about the content to boost engagement. 
• At WJMS we pride ourselves on giving student the experience that other stations would not be able to. We have created an intern-based podcast that will be run and be contributed to by each intern of WJMS. You will be responsible for 2-4 podcast episodes ranging from 30 minutes to 1 hour to air on our WJMS Speakerbox podcast. These episodes can be about whatever topic you like, but you will be fully responsible to create, edit, and research/record them on your own. These episodes will be due during your internship season and can/should be used for your final portfolio. 

INTERNSHIP SPECIFIC PROJECTS/CHALLENGES:

• Secure an interview with an artist with more than 10K followers/subscribers. And/or Create a WJMS theme song for use across the business. 

NOTE:

The workload will be alternated during this internship so that there will be a week of playlist content, followed by an album review, followed by another playlist update and one more artist interview to fill the month.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

The ideal candidate for this position should be passionate about music and the music industry. Aspiring artists, producers or music majors will excel in this role. We prefer students who have experience with interviewing and audio editing. Students must be able to coordinate scheduling and work independently to complete tasks. 

At this time, WJMS Media internships are only open to College Students. We do not accept High School Student applicants.