Paid Intern - Digital Marketplace

This is a Part Time Paid Internship

Position Information:
• Start Date: January 6 – June 6, 2025
• Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 5:00pm)
• Location: Remote (anywhere within the U.S.A.)
• Compensation: $20.00/hour

Intern, Digital - Marketplace:

Eager to gain digital experience at one of the top business news shows in public radio? The Marketplace digital team seeks a creative, motivated intern who has an active interest in business and economic journalism. This internship will provide support to the digital team, which is responsible for our website and newsletters. You will have an opportunity to work alongside editors, reporters, and producers with a focus on making sure the website is kept current and engaging. You will learn how to strengthen skills in reporting, writing, homepage curation, SEO and remote teamwork.

Key Learning Goals:

The goal of this internship is to provide immersive learning and real-world experience through impactful projects. Our goal for you is to:
• Gain insight into the journalism industry and Marketplace’s properties: In addition to original reporting for the website, the digital team works across the newsroom with radio and podcasting teams
• Learn how to help the website team drive audience engagement and help further our mission to raise the economic intelligence of the country
• Get tangible experience in daily website homepage curation for a journalism organization
• Hone your reporting and writing skills

Responsibilities:

In this hands-on role, you will work directly to:
• Help to source, optimize, and place relevant images into digital stories
• Research and add links to Marketplace stories
• Work with team members to rewrite radio stories into website articles
• Use SEO best practices to help come up with headlines
• Join the digital team meetings and trainings
• As time permits, can pitch, report, and write original articles with your own byline to be published on Marketplace.org

Benefits:
• Eligible to accrue sick time off
• Eligible for health insurance as required under the ACA
• Eligible to participate in the APMG retirement plan

Programming:
• Participate in robust on-boarding experience
• Professional development: on-the-job training, workforce readiness training, formal performance review feedback sessions, etc.
• Participate in brown bag sessions to gain broader perspectives of the organization

Required Qualifications
• Students who are currently enrolled and have completed one year of a 2-year or 4-year undergraduate program, are enrolled in a graduate program, or have earned a degree in the last 12 months
• Must be able to work 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday, roughly 9:00 – 5:00pm) for the duration of this internship
• Self-starter with an interest in journalism and how economic news intersects with people’s lives
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and work both independently and collaboratively
• A team player who is accountable, proactive, and solution oriented

Preferred Qualifications
• Coursework or experience in journalism and ideally specifically digital writing and editing
• Ability to create charts, maps graphs for the website a plus but not required
• Working knowledge of Content Management Systems
• Working knowledge of Photoshop
• Working knowledge of AP style

Next Step in the Application:

In addition to your skills and knowledge, we want to get to know you in the application process. Please include a cover letter (of no more than 1 page) with answers to the following:
• What interests you about this internship?
• What professional skills would you like to add to your toolbox in the months and years to come to grow in your career field?

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Physical Demands:
• Required to move about in an office environment or in your own home and sit for extended periods of time.
• A place to work undisturbed at home while in remote situation
• Required to move about in the community. (only after COVID)
• Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping.
• Working Conditions:
• Moderate noise level.
• Occasional exposure to prevalent weather conditions.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage members of diverse groups to apply.

MacMillan Internship & Fellowship Program at MPR|APM

Minnesota Public Radio | American Public Media are grateful for the long-time, generous philanthropy of Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan for investing in the future of public media through transformational internships and fellowships. Their recent grant will significantly strengthen our internship program, produce enriching programming, and prepare the next generation for careers in public media. We are pleased to recognize this generous support in the name of the program – the MacMillan Internship & Fellowship Program at MPR|APM.