New Jobs/Internships/Scholarships

INTERNSHIP: HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM PROGRAM, THE POYNTER INSTITUTE The Poynter Institute, the internationally known school for journalists based across the street from USF St. Petersburg, is looking for an intern to write for its Web site for high school journalists. This part-time intern position will work a one- or two- day schedule, five to 10 hours per week. Hours are flexible and can include time worked away from the Institute. START DATE : This position is available immediately. Prefer someone who could start this summer and work through fall 2008 and spring 2009. But will take interns for portions of that time (e.g. for Fall 2008 only, or for Fall and Spring semesters only). POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES · Contribute articles to Poynter High, a portal for high school journalists on Poynter Online. Create compelling content that will help scholastic journalists cover their school communities and lead their student staffs. Most articles will be brief, blog-style postings. For examples, go to www.poynter.org/poynterhigh. · Seek outstanding scholastic journalism and feature that work on Poynter High. For example, show lessons learned from Pacemaker winners or interview the winners of student journalism awards and write blog items on lessons learned from their success. · Assist the Director of the High School Program, Wendy Wallace, in her work to train student journalists and journalism teachers in the craft and values of journalism. This may involve writing articles for other publications, news releases to promote Poynter’s scholastic programs or assisting occasionally with evening or weekend workshops and other projects as assigned. The best candidates will be strong writers who are able to prepare short Web articles that will be useful and relevant for student journalists. High school journalism experience is a plus, but is not required. Experience posting to the Web is a plus, but not required. The intern will have a work space at Poynter and will have access to Poynter faculty and professional journalists who come to Poynter for training. In some cases, the intern will be able to sit in on Poynter workshops to gather information for articles or simply for his or her own professional development. For more information, contact Wendy Wallace, director of the HIgh School Journalism Program at Poynter, at 821-9494.

The LOOK3 Photo Workshops held June 7-12, 2008 in Charlottesville, VA will be accepting submissions for 3 tuition-free slots reserved for students at accredited 2 or 4 year colleges and universities. They are requesting that students submit exactly 10 images of a current or recent photography project they are working on and a short write-up of the project. The three winning nominations will be selected for placement in workshop courses taught by David Alan Harvey, Eugene Richards, and William Albert Allard. For more details and contact info. , see Bridget. (posted 4/17/08)

Spend your summer in New York City and gain the experience needed to start your career as a journalist!NBC Universal and The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) are proud to offer two students the opportunity to become NBC fellows and join one of the following NBC News programs for the summer of 2008:

• America's # 1 morning news program, the Today Show
• The top ranked evening news program, Nightly News with Brian Williams
• Primetime NBC's own Dateline
• One of NBC's local Owned and Operated Stations

Two students will be provided a stipend in the amount of $500 a week for 10 weeks to live in New York City, totaling $5,000 for each student.

For more information visit:

http://www.nahj.org/nahjnews/articles/2008/April/NBCFellowship.shtml

AAJA (the American Association of Asian Journalists) is proud to announce two broadcast grants for students who are pursuing careers in broadcast journalism. Only one application is needed for both. The deadline is April 25, 2008. The first grant will be in the amount of $2,500 and is in honor of the late Sam Chu Lin. Lin was among the first Asian American male broadcasters for network television. For this grant, students must have secured an internship already before applying. The grant will be used for defraying the cost of living for low or unpaid internships. The second grant is another $2,500 from the Lloyd LaCuesta Scholarship Fund. LaCuesta is a veteran KTVU TV/Cox Communications broadcast journalist, former AAJA national president, and current national board member of UNITY: Journalists of Color. Students do not need to be in an internship for this grant. Please see this link for more details and application: http:// www.aaja.org/programs/for_students/internships/#internshipgrantbroadcast

Sportswriting internship: A new website called the Florida High School Baseball Report is looking for interns. It is an online magazine that covers high school baseball around the state. They're looking for students interested in covering high school baseball in the Tampa area and writing editorials for their website. Contact Andy Barkett, andy@flhsbaseballreport.com (posted 11/30)

Community Journalism Internship: HERITAGE INTERNATONAL PRESS (HIP) is requesting a journalism student to assist in the development of is new Internet news service. Dates: January & February, 2008. Duties: 1. Assist in the layout of Internet copy; 2. Assist in distribution of Internet copy; 3. Assist in the development of Web Site for HIP. Place: Intern to assist at their home or on USF St. Petersburg campus. HIP, a St. Petersburg – based volunteer organization, is specifically designed to provide information about African American history and culture to local African American weekly publications. Contact: normanjones@aol.com

Sports Correspondents Needed: The St. Petersburg Times is looking for a few college journalists interested in covering the occasional high school game, primarily football, this fall. Contact Traci Johnson, Regional Sports Editor, 727-892-2900 or tjohnson@sptimes.com. (continuing)