Intern, Digital - Marketplace

Summary

American Public Media Group is a public media organization seeking an Intern, Digital - Marketplace to support its digital team and business news journalism. The intern will help maintain and engage the website through image optimization, story linking, article rewriting, SEO headline development, homepage curation, and potentially original reporting and writing.

Responsibilities

• Help to source, optimize, and place relevant images into digital stories
• Research and add links to Marketplace stories
• Work with team members to rewrite radio stories into website articles
• Use SEO best practices to help come up with headlines
• Join the digital team meetings and trainings
• As time permits, can pitch, report, and write original articles with your own byline to be published on Marketplace.org

Skills

• Currently enrolled in a college or university, or graduated within the past 18 months
• Available full-time (40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.) throughout the internship
• Self-starter with an interest in journalism and how economic news intersects with people's lives
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and work both independently and collaboratively
• A team player who is accountable, proactive, and solution oriented
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation
• Required to move about in an office environment or in your own home and sit for extended periods of time
• A place to work undisturbed at home while in remote situation
• Required to move about in the community. (only after COVID)
• Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping
• Journalism coursework or experience (digital writing and editing preferred)
• Ability to create charts, maps graphs for the website a plus but not required
• Working knowledge of Content Management Systems
• Working knowledge of Photoshop
• Working knowledge of AP style

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Currently enrolled in a college or university, or graduated within the past 18 months
• Available full-time (40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.) throughout the internship
• Self-starter with an interest in journalism and how economic news intersects with people's lives
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and work both independently and collaboratively
• A team player who is accountable, proactive, and solution oriented
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation
• Required to move about in an office environment or in your own home and sit for extended periods of time
• A place to work undisturbed at home while in remote situation
• Required to move about in the community. (only after COVID)
• Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping

Nice to Haves

• Journalism coursework or experience (digital writing and editing preferred)
• Ability to create charts, maps graphs for the website a plus but not required
• Working knowledge of Content Management Systems
• Working knowledge of Photoshop
• Working knowledge of AP style

Benefits

• Eligible to accrue sick time off
• Eligible for health insurance as required under the ACA
• Eligible to participate in the APMG retirement plan
• This is a fully remote position (anywhere within the U.S.A.)
• Participate in a robust onboarding experience
• Professional development: on-the-job training, workforce readiness training, formal performance review feedback sessions, etc.
• Participate in brown bag sessions to gain broader perspectives of the organization