An opportunity for fall semester... or any time in the next year.
Sacha DeVroomen Bellman
Visiting Instructor in Journalism
Adviser The Miami Student newspaper
Adviser Recensio yearbook
Miami University
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:06 PM
To: College Media discussion
Subject: [CMAmembers] Student Press Law Center fall internships
The Student Press Law Center will be hiring three journalism interns for the fall semester (approximately Sept. 1 – Dec. 15, start/end dates can be flexible), paying a $3,000 stipend for the term. These interns report and write the news that appears on our website, www.splc.org, and in our magazine, The SPLC Report, and have the opportunity to attend Supreme Court arguments, congressional hearings and other educational events available in the D.C. area. More details are available at http://www.splc.org/journalism.asp (the text of the announcement at this site appears below).
Please help us publicize this opportunity among your students (or new graduates), and if you have a promising candidate, please bring that person to our attention.
Many thanks, and have a wonderful holiday weekend.
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Frank D. LoMonte, Esq.
Executive Director
Student Press Law Center
1101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209-2211
(703) 807-1904 phone
(703) 807-2109 fax
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www.splc.org
About Journalism Internships at the Student Press Law Center
Press freedom issues are the focus of this exceptional internship opportunity. Apply now and launch your journalism career!
Interested in improving your reporting and news writing skills while getting a taste of life in the nation's capital? Would you like to cover legislation that affects thousands of journalists across the country, as well as important press freedom and freedom of information court cases? The Student Press Law Center has internship positions available in its Washington, D.C.,-area office each school semester and during the summer. The internships are open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent college graduates with experience in news writing and an interest in media law.
Since 1974, the SPLC has been the only national organization devoted exclusively to monitoring the free press rights of high school and college journalists. The Center serves as a source of legal advice and assistance for the student media and the public, providing information on subjects ranging from libel and invasion of privacy to access to records and censorship.
Journalism Interns at the Student Press Law Center are a crucial component in the work of the SPLC. Interns research, write and help edit the Report, the Center's thrice-yearly magazine that chronicles student press law cases and controversies from around the country. Interns serve as the magazine's news staff, reporting and writing news stories. Interns also write News Flashes and analysis pieces for the Center's popular Web site. Interns have followed the efforts of state legislatures around the country to pass laws protecting high school students' free press rights and covered landmark litigation by the college and commercial media seeking access to campus crime information. Their stories have ranged from exploring the impact of school violence on students' free expression rights to antagonism between the student media and the NCAA.
But an SPLC internship isn't all work. Interns join in issue-oriented seminars organized by the SPLC and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Seminars explore such topics as working with confidential sources, government efforts to regulate the Internet and more. Speakers have included Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro and members of The Washington Post's in-house legal counsel staff.
Interns also experience life in our nation's capital, with easy access to the national monuments, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Smithsonian Institution and other public attractions.
Full-time spring and fall school semester interns receive a living expense stipend of $3,000 and full-time summer interns receive a stipend of $2,300 and may be eligible for a $700 scholarship from the Associated Collegiate Press (see below). Many interns arrange to receive academic credit from their college or university with the support of the SPLC. Applications for part-time internships are accepted on a space available basis.
To apply for an internship, send a cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for working with the Student Press Law Center along with a resume, samples of your news writing and the names and telephone numbers of two professional or academic references. (Applicants who wish to be considered for the College Media Advisers-funded internship -- available in the summer only -- should send a letter from their adviser recommending them for the position and indicating that the adviser is a member in good standing of College Media Advisers.)
Although there is no formal deadline for receiving applications, applicants are strongly encouraged to send in their materials by February 1 for the summer internship, July 1 for the fall internship and November 1 for the spring internship. Hiring decisions are made on a rotating basis.
Spring Internship (January - May): November 1
Summer Internship (May - August): February 1
Fall Internship (September - December): July 1
Send your application to:
Frank LoMonte, Executive Director
Student Press Law Center
1101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209-2275
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UPCOMING EVENTS
-- New Advisers Workshop 2008 (June 22-24). John Seigenthaler First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN. For more information, contact Laura York Guy ([log in to unmask]).
-- Louis Ingelhart First Amendment Institute (June 25-27). John Seigenthaler First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN. For more information, contact Mark Witherspoon ([log in to unmask])
-- CMA Advising College Media Today/ACP National College Publications Workshop (July 31 to Aug. 3), 2008, Washington, D.C., Renaissance Hotel
-- Fall National College Media Convention 2008 (Oct. 30 - Nov. 2), CMA and Associated Collegiate Press. Marriott Downtown, Kansas City, MO.
-- -- National Spring College Media Convention 2009 (March 15-17), Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square.
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