Monday, September 26, 2011

Wall Street Journal summer internships

DEADLINE: ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 1, 2011.
Internships are aimed at undergraduates or recent graduates who intend a career in journalism. To apply for this internship please submit a cover letter, resume and up to six writing samples. We will select about 15 interns for the summer 2012 program. The selection process is highly competitive and most of those chosen have had prior internships with other newspapers as well as extensive experience on a campus newspaper. The internships are for ten-week periods in June, July and August. The pay is$700.00 a week.
The screening process puts heavy emphasis on clips and journalistic experience. Only the applicants who are selected for final consideration will be contacted. We will complete the selection process by the end of December. About half the interns are based outside New York, in bureaus such as San Francisco, DC, Detroit, etc. We do not pay for relocation. It helps for applicants to state if they have preferences in where they intern, and also if they have any preferences in subject matter (for example: metro, economics, politics, arts etc). We cannot guarantee to meet your preferences, but it helps us inplacing interns. If you wish to apply for a video, art or WSJ.com internship, please specify that in your application. You can also elect to apply for more than one of these, if you have several areas of skill.
ART INTERNS: We also accept photo, infographics and art internship applications. Applicants should include samples of their work.
VIDEO INTERNS: Each year we take at least one video intern, who works as part of our video team shooting and editing video that complements and supplements print stories.
WSJ.COM INTERNS: Our online team, which is integrated with the print operations, takes several interns each year who work exclusively online, packaging and editing stories, video and graphics for our website.
Deborah Brewster, Deputy Managing Editor
The Wall Street Journal Internship Program (U.S.)
1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036
Emails not accepted

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Alumnus Ron Winslow, '71, wins medical science reporting prize

Ron Winslow, the New York-based deputy bureau chief for health and science and a veteran medical reporter at the Wall Street Journal, has been awarded the 2011 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. Winslow was cited for the “exceptional breadth, precision and clarity of his coverage about how technological innovation is transforming the world of medicine.”

The annual prize, for a body of work published or broadcast within the past five years, was established in 2000 by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), a non-profit organization of science communicators and educators dedicated to improving the quality of science news reaching the public.

To learn more, go to http://www.nasw.org/wsjs-winslow-awarded-cohn-prize

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Finalists announced for the 2011 Online Journalism Awards

Links to excellent online journalism:
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/finalists-announced-for-the-2011-online-journalism-awards/

Monday, September 19, 2011

Cyberjournalist.net highlights journalism on Tumblr

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/innovative-journalism-on-tumblr/

Take a look at ShortFormBlog, which curates about 30 news stories a day using visual storytelling.The blog, which can be found at shortformblog.tumblr.com, is produced by a graphic designer at The Washington Post, Ernie Smith.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Join the Inquiry Journal Student Editorial Board

Get hands-on experience in working with an author, interviewing, and writing for Inquiry, UNH’s online undergraduate research journal www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal.

A few positions are open on the volunteer Student Editorial Board (sophomores and up) for the 2012 issue, which goes online next April. To see the 2011 student editors, go to http://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/11/editorial.html

To apply, go to the website and click on Join the Staff. For more information, email editor.inquiry@unh.edu

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Alum featured in am New York article

Check out what Michele Filgate, 06, is up to these days: http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/from-bookseller-to-best-seller-they-hope-1.3070241

UNH faculty member wins top honors

Our new Journalism Program faculty member, Tom Haines, took first place honors for newswriting in the 2011 Texas Press Association better newspaper contest.

Haines earned a first in the small weeklies category for articles that appeared in The Presidio International and The Big Bend Sentinel.

Haines and photographer Alberto Tomas Halpern took readers on a ride with two U.S. Border Patrol agents as they worked the area around Valentine last year. The article appeared under the headline, “Ever more eyes on the border.”

Haines and Halpern also delved into the workings of a Presidio County cattle operation as they documented a day of cattle shipping on the Love Ranch, a century-old family agribusiness and a way of life..

“Well done,” the judges said of the Border Patrol story. “Captivating reading for those of us that don’t live along the border. A great service to those folks, your readers, that do.”

“Colorful storytelling . . . and great quotes,” the judges said of the ranching article. “Another great service to your readers.”