About the role
DC Life Magazine is looking for an intern to help produce web content for Washington DC's most searched city magazine. This is a fast-paced internship that requires focus, organization, and flexibility. DCLifemagazine.com editorial assistants must have strong writing skills as well as a familiarity with content management programs. This is an unpaid 20-hour a week internship that lasts six months. Academic credit is available.
Typical Web intern projects include:
- Importing/entering/formatting Datebook entries, Calendar events, Charitable events, Special Dinner and Wine events; other events as needed.
- Help build the online issue of the quarterly magazine.
- Use Adobe CC/Photoshop to crop and re-size photos for the web.
- Re-write headlines to Web-friendly standards.
- Write blurbs, decks, and credits for stories from the print edition and for Web articles.
- Compose credits for exclusive videos and edit original video footage into short web clips using video editing tools.
- Write short stories and blogs as needed for the web.
The ideal web intern has the following skills/knowledge/ideas:
- A sincere interest in the internet; blogs, podcasts, and social networking.
- Basic knowledge of SEO and keyword strategy.
- Basic Photoshop skills.
- Basic editing skills.
- Attention to detail and established formatting standards.
- Creative writing skills, ideas, and innovation.
- An ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Access to Internet and software is required as this is a virtual position.
Please send your resume with a brief description of your objectives and expectations of the internship in relation to your educational and professional goals to [email protected].
If interested in an internship with Mestizo Media Group, Inc., please send contact information at [email protected] for any questions you may have.