The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle is offering an intensive, short-term remote journalism internship for college students in December of 2024 and/or January of 2025. The exact dates of the internship are negotiable.
In response to demand, we have created this streamlined version of our summer, fall and spring internships, at a time when most students are off from classes.
We genuinely seek to help more students. This is an unpaid internship with a respected nonprofit, Milwaukee Jewish Federation. You will learn about nut graphs, story structure and best practices for sustainable journalism through service to a community. You will complete the internship with published writing samples.
If you work for your college newspaper or news service, we will help you become more effective in that role. Full-time jobs and other internships often appreciate previous professional experience, including good writing samples from outside the classroom. The Chronicle internship is designed to help you move in that direction.
Prior to accepting this or any unpaid internship, if you want school credit, you must contact your internship coordinator or academic advisor at your college to determine whether this internship satisfies your institution’s requirements for earning academic credit.
If you join the Chronicle, your supervisor will be Editor Rob Golub, winner of more than ten Milwaukee Press Club awards over the last several years and former chief editor of the daily newspaper in Racine, Wis. Golub has been running this internship for more than 15 years. His “graduates” have gone on to work or intern at Facebook, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Moment magazine, and other news organizations everywhere. Leading editors at the newspapers of selective colleges were first our interns. Prior applicants have come from highly competitive schools, but the internship is open to all.
This internship includes a Sustainable Journalism Workshop. You will learn how to create a more financially sustainable journalism product. Golub has written about this for Poynter.
We seek bright students who are enthusiastic about journalism, have writing ability, and have demonstrated a commitment to work or learning. You do not need to know how to be a journalist to do this internship.
You can do this internship from anywhere, so long as you have internet and a laptop. The internship is remote, but hybrid may be an option if you are local. Expect to work about 20-40 hours per week, roughly between the end of and start of your class sessions. This is our first January Journalism Internship, and we will learn from this how we can do it better next year.
The Chronicle is now accepting applications on a rolling basis. Send your resume, writing samples and current GPA to Chronicle@MilwaukeeJewish.org.
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