Summer Intern Reporter
Join us in the summer as a paid intern and gain practical education, professional experience and have a great time working alongside reporters and editors in our newsroom.
You will work on stories, be assigned a mentor, and hear experts, from the publisher to investigative reporters, talk about the ever-changing world of journalism.
Our company: The Fresno Bee is one of 30 news organizations in the McClatchy Company. We’re a Northern California news and information company, with our newspaper, website (fresnobee.com) and other products on different delivery platforms.
We primarily serve GEOGRAPHIC INFO HERE. TOPICAL INTERESTS HERE. We are an award-winning organization with a reputation for accuracy, fairness, credibility and civic purpose. Our investigations bring about change. Our community involvement touches readers. Our news imperatives bring them information fast and truthfully.
The program/supervision/support: Our interns are vital and we value them. The program works this way:
- Internships are 12 weeks, 37. 5 hours per week, and interns earn $12.36 an hour. Schedule could include weekend hours.
- Interns learn how to cover local news, features and business – and more.
- If they work in editorial (the opinion pages), that stint is the last one in their rotation. We don’t want reporters to work in opinion and rotate back into the newsroom.
- Each intern, while being assigned to a department and responsive to its supervisors, also has a mentor. This is the editor who oversees them, guides them, helps solve problems.
- Intern can work in multimedia as well, creating content and crafting social for digital platforms.
To apply click below. Please include resume and clips, links to stories, personal websites, and portfolio, if available.
Qualifications include:
- The ability to write quickly, accurately and well;
- Solid news judgment;
- Driven, with an instinctive grasp of what will engage your audience;
- A deep grasp of what drives interest on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms;
- A strong entrepreneurial spirit, good curiosity and high energy;
- A collaborative style that works comfortably across teams spread throughout the office and company.
- A familiarity with entry-level video editing platforms is preferred.