Students: 

Cincinnati magazine, a terrific monthly with offices in downtown Cincinnati,
needs an intern ASAP, as one of its hires has reneged. If you have clips
that show strong writing and reporting chops, and can manage a 15-hour-a
week off-campus position, please be in touch immediately. Miami students
have done very well at the magazine and this is great (albeit last-minute)
opportunity to build on that history. A description of the position follows.
Be sure to visit the magazine at www.cincinnatimagazine.com as you ponder
this possibility. 

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Thank you for your interest in our internship program. We are always
looking for bright, energetic, hard-working students who are interested in
the field of magazine publishing.

The intent of our program is to give students a taste of magazine life. Some
of our former interns have gone on to full-time jobs in magazine publishing,
armed with research, writing, and reporting skills that they honed during
their time with us.
  
 The primary areas of responsibility during the four-month internships are:
  
 1) Fact checking. Every story that appears in the magazine is checked for
accuracy, making fact checking the number one priority in our publishing
process.
  
 2) Research/reporting. You will be expected to help out on the research
and‹possibly reporting‹for our larger feature packages (i.e. Top Doctors,
Dining Out Guide, Travel, etc.) as well as our editorial Web content.
   
 3) Completing short writing assignments. While fact checking is the number
one priority in our internship program, we also encourage interns to
research and pitch story ideas that would be appropriate for our readership.
We guarantee that interns will get one clip for their portfolios, but
additional opportunities to write for publication depends on the initiative
students show on non-writing assignments.

4) Possibly helping with the maintenance and updating of our online calendar
listings. This task includes removing old calendar items, writing/compiling
new blurbs, and making editors aware of any mistakes in the listings.

5) Staff participation/interaction. Part of successfully completing an
internship with us means that you have attempted to become a part of our
staff. We expect interns to be proactive in asking questions, providing
editorial input when requested, and seeking out the answers they need.
  
**NOTE: This is not a writing internship, however, the research and
fact-checking responsibilities interns have at our magazine are very similar
to tasks that many would take on in entry-level magazine jobs.
  
Our internships are unpaid and we require a minimum of 15 hours per week in
the office (times and days vary depending on class/work schedules). 
On 5/13/11 12:55 PM, "Patricia Gallagher Newberry" <[log in to unmask]>
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