Current is a new breed of media company that empowers its young adult audience with participatory media platforms and formats that inform, enrich, and inspire. Through our TV network, Current TV, and our website, Current.com, we create and distribute viewer-created content and Current produced content that is relevant to the lives of young adults.

Our integrated television and online platforms provide an immersive and interactive experience for our audience. Current.com is a full-fledged social news site and is the first in the TV sector to serve as a creative filtering platform for TV programming. Our unique approach to "crowdsourcing" TV programming gives us exceptional results: more than one third of the programming on Current TV comes from viewers. Our average viewer watches and participates on Current 5+ hours a week.

Current's award-winning programming ranges from the hottest trends in technology, fashion and music, to pressing issues such as the environment, finance and politics. We won both an Emmy (for creative achievement in interactive TV) and a Webby (for best TV website) - how's that for convergence? Current is now viewed in the U.S., U.K. and Italy in more than 58 million households through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107 nationwide), Time Warner (nationwide), DirecTV (channel 358 nationwide), Dish Network (channel 196 nationwide), BSkyB (channel 183), Virgin Media Cable (channel 155) and Sky Italia (channel 130). For more information, please visit the Web site: www.current.com

Department

Just for Students

Position

Vanguard Journalism Internship - Summer 2009

Location

Los Angeles

Description

Current TV is looking for Interns to work in Current’s Vanguard Journalism department in Los Angeles.   Vanguard Journalism is Current’s marquee investigative journalism unit dedicated to reporting on global issues of relevance to Current’s young adult audience.  This is a great opportunity to work with a team of journalists who are trying to bring a new edge, personality and importance to TV journalism for Current’s 18-34 year old target audience.  

Responsibilities:

--Conducting research for stories that are in development

--Fact-checking

--Logging field tapes

--Gathering archival images/video

--Assisting field crews on local shoots

--Assisting with preparing segments for broadcast

Skills Required:

--We are looking for people who are hard working, curious, reliable, organized,
highly motivated, and extremely determined.

--Must have interest in and knowledge about current affairs and world politics.

--Must be enrolled in an accredited 2 year or 4 year college and ELIGIBLE to
receive school credit.

If you're looking for a rewarding opportunity and a great work environment, please email your resume and cover letter to internships@current.com. Please tell us where you saw this job posted, and include “Vanguard Internship” in the subject line of your email.

If you're looking for a rewarding opportunity, a great work environment, please email your resume, cover letter and salary history to internships@current.com. Please include 'Vanguard Journalism Internship - Summer 2009' in the subject line of your email.

Please tell us where you saw this job posted, and include the position title in the subject line of your email.

• Location: Bel-Air
• Compensation: Intern to Hire
• This is a part-time job.
• This is an internship job

This is an award-winning 16,500 daily morning newspaper on the Vermont/New Hampshire border. Owned by Newspapers of New England (the Concord Monitor and Greenfield Recorder are part of the same group), the paper covers a region that includes 46 towns in four counties; the areas core includes Hanover and Lebanon, N.H., and White River Junction, Vt.

The intern will be working with the newspapers three full-time staff photographers and photo editor, covering the range of assignments and enterprise work. Photographers also produce weekly picture pages and long-term projects. In addition to having an insured car, the intern must provide their own camera and basic lenses, which the newspaper insured and will cover necessary job-related repairs. The newspaper also has pool lighting equipment, cameras and a sports lens.

The fall intern must be committed to work through the holidays, including Christmas.

Each internship will cover four months, and pay is $360 per week plus overtime when applicable. Mileage is also reimbursed.

Please send a cover letter, resume and portfolio of about 20-30 images (CD is preferred).

Application deadline for the fall internship, and others, are as follows:

Fall (Sept.-end of the year) 2009 — June 26, 2009
Winter/Spring (Jan.-April) 2010 — October 1, 2009
Spring/Summer (April-August) 2010 — February 1, 2010

Please send your application to:

Geoff Hansen, Photo Editor
Valley News
P.O. Box 877
White River Jct., Vt. 05001

No phone calls or emails, please.

• Location: Los Angeles 90066
• Compensation: TBD

Shoot a wide range of community-focused assignments, from pot holes to politicians, during an internship with our Employee-owned newspaper.

The Evening News is committed to strong visuals and we're looking for candidates who can find and develop their own stories and feature ideas as well as complete daily assignments. There are plenty of outlets to explore your creative vision in our publications: a staff photo column, weekly photo page, space to run documentary work, online photo galleries and audio slideshows.

This paid internship is your opportunity to try new things and expand your skills, with compensation, of course. You must provide transportation, i.e. a car; we will provide Nikon gear and light kit.

Apply by March 15th to:

Bryan Bosch, Chief Photographer
Monroe Evening News
20 W. First St.
Monroe, MI 48182

photo@monroenews.com

• Location: Los Angeles
• This is a part-time job.

• Compensation: School Credit
• This is an internship job