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Friday, August 18, 2006

News Intern Needed

Posted by on August 18 at 10:33 AM

The Stranger news room, currently obsessed with: Mike McGavick; Mayor Nickels’s club crackdown; the Viaduct; Darcy Burner; Naveed Haq; detached accessory dwelling units; the election for the open state house seat in the 43rd legislative district; I-933; Hezbollah; gay marriage; and adding bike lanes to Seattle’s streets, needs an intern for a 3-month stint.

You don’t have to care about the above list specifically, but you should have a list of your own—and be jazzed at the prospect of working in a frenetic newsroom…and ideally, be able to make it much less frenetic. Seriously: We need someone who’s organized.

We need a commitment of about 20-hours a week. We know you have to wait tables or go to school, so we’re flexible with the schedule. It’s unpaid, but you are paid for anything you write. And typically, news interns get writing assignments thrown their way right off the bat.

Mostly, though, you’ll be doing follow-up phone calls, filing public records requests, tracking down story leads, fact checking, looking over PDC reports, doing math for me, picking up records downtown, transcribing interviews, dropping everything to pitch in on breaking news stories, and Slogging.

Send cover letter and resume to josh@thestranger.com. Now.