Description:
This internship is part of the Spring 2025 Professional Internship Program. To be eligible for the program you must:
- Be enrolled as an SUU student during the course of the internship.
- Have and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
- Be willing to work 10 to 20 hours per week.
- Provide thoughtful responses in your application.
Responsibilities are:
- Produce news stories for SUU News and the University Journal
- Attend weekly staff meetings to pitch story ideas or get story assignments from student editors
- Maintain constant communication with editors to meet deadlines for editing and publication of their stories
- Responsible for conducting interviews, doing research, attending events, collaborating with photojournalists and writing stories in a timely manner meeting hard deadlines
- Work quickly to make edits to stories based on feedback from section editors and copy editors which sometimes requires working during odd hours to meet deadlines
Qualifications:
- Must learn and implement the Associated Press style of news writing, including the inverted pyramid, unique punctuation rules and long-form feature styles
- Required to attend trainings in the Newsroom on news writing structure and AP style nuance
- Must have a good knowledge and understanding of English and love to write about a variety of topics from sports, news, outdoors, arts and campus life
- Student reporters are able to move up to student section editor, editor-in-chief and copy editor positions based on capabilities
- Student reporters must exhibit high standard of journalistic professionalism including writing objectively, accurately and fairly
Candidate needs to submit resume, cover letter and 2 writing samples. Communication or English majors are encouraged to apply.