New paid editing internship in Maine

The intern would work for the Forecaster newspapers, out of the Falmouth, Maine newspaper office, with a great editor named Mo Mehlsak. The internship would run for 25 hours a week and would include copy editing, story editing and layout. Pay is minmum wage. Please contact Lisa Miller if you’re interested, lc.miller@unh.edu

Journalism scholarship for Muslim American students

The Islamic Society of North America is offering a $4,000 scholarship for Muslim American students majoring in journalism or political science. The deadline for applying for this school year is Jan. 31. Go to scholarship@isna.net for more information.

Internship opening for the summer in Maine

THE ELLSWORTH AMERICAN’S 2012 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

    The Ellsworth American, an award-winning 12,000-circulation weekly newspaper in Downeast

 Maine, is looking for two paid full-time summer interns to write feature stories and take photos for its arts section and special sections, particularly a 50-page monthly entertainment guide and feature magazine called “Out & About.”

The internship runs from mid-May until Labor Day, with flexibility for individual schedules. This is a busy internship, requiring high energy, solid feature reporting and writing skills. Photography skills are a plus. The interns work 40 hours a week on a flexible schedule, meaning that they work the occasional Saturday or Sunday and take compensatory time later. An intern must have their own car and will be required to travel to assignments outside the office on a regular basis. Generating story ideas is encouraged, though not required. A sense of adventure and love of the outdoors are key to the job.

Ellsworth American interns have been new college graduates or undergraduates. The graduates

generally move directly into employment in the journalism field.

The newspaper’s offices and printing plant are in downtown Ellsworth, population 6,000, the county seat of Hancock County. Bar Harbor and Blue Hill are 20 minutes away, and Bangor is a half-hour away. Hancock County is an extremely popular tourist destination, and tourism accounts for most summer jobs. Year-round employment includes construction trades, fishing and farming. The county also has an unusually active arts community whose hectic summertime schedule includes gallery shows, concerts and theatrical performances.

The final deadline for application is Jan. 31. To apply, send resume and clips to Letitia Baldwin, The Ellsworth American,

30 Water St., Ellsworth, Maine 04605. Telephone: 207.667.2576, Ext: 301. Fax: 207.667.7656.

E-mail: lbaldwin@ellsworthamerican.com. Web site:wwwfenceviewer.com.

Hyperlocal journalism academy

Interested in hyperlocal journalism? Check out NYU's Hyperlocal Newsroom Summer Academy at
http://bit.ly/bCLE3h

Reporting job open in Mass.

The Recorder of Greenfield, Mass., an award-winning, 13,000-circulation morning newspaper located in the  foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, is looking for a full-time, entry level beat reporter. The paper, privately owned, strives for excellence in community journalism. Reporters share news and feature writing responsibilities.

Those interested in quality story telling should contact

Editor Tim Blagg at 413 772-0261 x 250 tblagg@recorder.com or Managing Editor George Forcier at 413 772-0261 x 270 gforcier@recorder.com

More UNH multimedia reporting about primitive technology

Sam Ueda, a UNH journalism major, also focused his multimedia reporting efforts for this semester's final project on a man committed to an earlier time. This story, about Jeremy Leclair in Kittery and his lathe-cut records, explores the idea of uniqueness. Enjoy.

UNH multimedia storytellers

Throughout the fall semester, journalism majors in English 721/Multimedia Storytelling studied and practiced tools and techniques to report in audio, images and video.

Final video projects are in, and over the coming days I'll share a few here to give a sense of the range of work possible, even in a short time. These are the first multimedia efforts by students who have previously focused more on the fundamentals of reporting and writing.

Enjoy.

First up: "Reviving a Dying Art," by Kristen Phelps.

Deadline duo delivers

Recent UNH journalsim program grads Danielle Curtis and Liz Markhlevskaya team up to cover today's breaking news of a fugitive's arrest for Foster's Daily Democrat.

Minority Science Writers Internship

The Minority Science Writers Internship, run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is open to undergrads from underrepresented minority groups who are interested in journalism as a career and want to learn about science writing.

The internship takes place each summer at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of AAAS's Science magazine, the largest interdisciplinary journal in the world. Interns spend 10 weeks at Science under the guidance of award-winning reporters and editors, and have a chance to experience what science writers do for a living. Interns are expected to contribute to the weekly news section, including bylined articles in the print and electronic news service.

The paid internship includes travel costs to and from the internship site in Washington, D.C. Living accommodations and expenses are the responsibility of the intern. The internship runs from June to mid-August.

The 2012 summer program application deadline is March 1, 2012. Applicants must be enrolled in an undergraduate academic program when they submit their application.

Download an application, which includes instructions on submission, at  http://www.aaas.org/careercenter/internships/MSWI_images/MSWI_Application.pdf.

English 524 Journalism in the Movies and Print offered Spring 2012

When Cal McCaffrey, the news reporter in the movie “State of Play,” refuses to pass on to his paper information harmful to a friend of his, is he turning his back on his responsibility to his readers? When reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pressure reluctant sources to talk about the Watergate break-in in the movie “All the President’s Men,”  are they going too far? When a newspaper editor in “The Paper” ignores information that negates the front page story she’s just OK’d, who is going to hold her responsible for her actions?

Why, in real life, does the U.S. media get such specific protection in the First Amendment to the Constitution?  And if, as Matthew C. Erlich says in Journalism in the Movies, movies “can be read as a culture thinking out loud to itself,” what do these movie portrayals tell us about our culture?

These are the sorts of questions we’ll discuss in this course as we explore the ways journalists are portrayed in films and how those depictions reflect society’s hope for as well as concerns about the role of the media in a democracy.