FiveThirtyEight is looking for an intern to paintings with our video and social groups throughout the summer time of 2022. We’re searching for a present pupil journalist or contemporary graduate who’s passionate about accuracy, readability, video manufacturing and storytelling; who’s adept at construction and cultivating communities on platforms like TikTok or Instagram; and is occupied with sharing our wonky, data-driven method to sports activities and political journalism with the ones audiences.
The intern’s major position will probably be to building up FiveThirtyEight’s video presence, engagement and following on social platforms. This implies pitching and executing quick social movies whilst growing and refining FiveThirtyEight’s cross-platform voice and tone. Will have to they have got pastime, the intern would possibly narrate or host movies. The intern will even lend a hand with basic video target market technique and paintings with our senior clothier and video reporters to repurpose current belongings for distribution on our web site and different platforms, together with Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.
Journalism revel in (whether or not from a journalism magnificence, college paper, process or internship) is a will have to, as is a few revel in reporting on politics. However “politics” doesn’t simply imply electoral politics — it would imply you will have revel in reporting on coverage problems, social actions, how polarization impacts your neighborhood or one thing else.
The social/video intern will report back to the senior editor for social and target market and the senior video manufacturer however will even find a way to paintings with newshounds around the newsroom.
Candidates will have to have the ability to decide to a full-time agenda from Might or June thru August. They will have to be a present pupil or have graduated prior to now 18 months. It is a paid place and can also be carried out remotely.
Elementary {qualifications}:
- Some journalism revel in
- A forged figuring out of U.S. politics and a prolific intake of reports
- Enthusiasm for FiveThirtyEight and the type of journalism we create
- Demonstrated revel in developing compelling social movies
- Some revel in with Adobe Premiere. Candidates will have to have the ability to minimize clips and upload song
- Revel in writing scripts and storyboarding
- Revel in in the back of a digital camera (a smartphone digital camera counts)
Most well-liked {qualifications}:
- Revel in writing social replica
- Revel in the usage of WordPress or a an identical CMS to submit articles
- Revel in in entrance of the digital camera (a smartphone digital camera counts)
Additional info:
For those who don’t take a look at each field, that’s OK — we’d nonetheless like to listen to from you. Observe right here with a résumé and transient quilt letter. Please come with hyperlinks to your quilt letter or résumé to 3 social movies you’ve produced. They may be able to be non-public initiatives and don’t essentially wish to be journalistic.
On the time of software, the applicant will have to be enrolled in an authorised school/college and taking no less than one magnificence within the semester/quarter previous to participation within the internship program, or the applicant will have to have graduated from a faculty/college inside six months.
This internship is a paid, far flung internship and can run Might/June 2022 thru January 2023. Candidate will have to be to be had to paintings 40 hours/week on Jap Time at some point of the internship.
ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain attention for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, nationwide starting place, sexual orientation, gender id, incapacity or safe veteran standing.
