Winter / Spring Intern - Music Editorial
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Full Time Unpaid Internship
Winter/Spring 2019: January 7-April 19th
NPR Music is both a creative and a curatorial environment: On our site, stories created by our small team of producers live alongside features from NPR’s radio programs, podcasts and digital news platforms, essays and reviews from freelance contributors and on-the-ground reporting from around the public radio system. Each season’s editorial intern fields daily assignments spanning a massive range of genres and ideas, and must work on deadline to synthesize that information into compelling content for a savvy online audience. We’re looking for someone with airtight editing skills, solid news judgment, strong organizational habits and the ability to think critically and independently about what makes a music story worth telling.
This is a full-time, 40-hour internship in the Washington, D.C. office.
Responsibilities:
• Web production for a wide array of stories, including segments from NPR’s newsmagazines, recurring series like First Listen, podcasts, festival coverage, original essays by staff and freelancers and special editorial packages
• Transcribing, fact-checking and editing interviews; adapting broadcast pieces for presentation as dynamic web articles; rewriting copy that falls below our editorial standards; crafting compelling headlines and promotional language
• Communicating with producers at radio programs, digital news editors, social media managers, and contacts at labels and publicity firms
• Managing deadlines for multiple supervisors, adapting to sudden changes of schedule when breaking news hits
Qualifications:
• Strong editing and writing skills
• Knowledge of contemporary music across genres
• Passion for storytelling; an interest in the how and why behind stories in the music industry
• Working knowledge of HTML and basic web editing
• Working knowledge of Photoshop and basic photo editing
• Working knowledge of ProTools, Audition, or other audio editing software
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
Preferred Skills:
• Experience in music-related field; music journalism or production experience
• Experience with a content management system
• Experience writing for the web
• Experience editing to AP style standards