[Hiring] Intern, Digital - Marketplace @American Public Media Group

Role Description

The Marketplace digital team seeks a creative, motivated intern who has an active interest in business and economic journalism. This internship will provide support to the digital team, which is responsible for our website and newsletters. You will have an opportunity to work alongside editors, reporters, and producers with a focus on making sure the website is kept current and engaging. You will learn how to strengthen skills in reporting, writing, homepage curation, SEO, and remote teamwork.

Key Learning Goals

• Gain insight into the journalism industry and Marketplace’s properties.
• Learn how to help the website team drive audience engagement.
• Get tangible experience in daily website homepage curation for a journalism organization.
• Hone your reporting and writing skills.

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, pitch, report, and write original articles with your own byline to be published on Marketplace.org.

Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Next Step in the Application

Please include a cover letter (of no more than 1 page) with answers to the following:

• What interests you about this internship?
• What professional skills would you like to add to your toolbox in the months and years to come to grow in your career field?

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• 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 a remote situation.
• Required to move about in the community (only after COVID).
• Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping.

Working Conditions

• Moderate noise level.
• Occasional exposure to prevalent weather conditions.

Company Description

Minnesota Public Radio | American Public Media are grateful for the long-time, generous philanthropy of Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan for investing in the future of public media through transformational internships and fellowships. Their recent grant will significantly strengthen our internship program, produce enriching programming, and prepare the next generation for careers in public media.