California: Internships with Tikkun Magazine
Tikkun magazine seeks to expand its internship program. All internships with Tikkun are unpaid and last approximately three months. We prefer applicants who can work at least twenty hours a week. We are currently accepting applications for Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. Email a self-revealing cover letter, resume, and two writing samples to editorial.tikkun@gmail.com. In your cover letter, please indicate which type of magazine internship is your top choice and explain why you are capable of doing first-rate work in this capacity. Also indicate which magazine internships would be your second and third choices and tell us about your qualifications for them. If we are interested in your application, we will contact you and ask you to complete an additional assignment related to the type of internship for which we are considering you. No phone calls, please.
A description of positions follows. Please note that interns may be periodically pulled away from the jobs outlined below to help with special projects initiated by Michael Lerner.
PRINT EDITORIAL interns gain hands-on experience in magazine editing, evaluating submissions and proofing each issue of the magazine. EThey also read articles from past issues of Tikkun and summarize these pieces in short “teasers” that are published as part of the magazine’s online archive. Editorial interns may have the opportunity to publish an article, but we make no guarantees—interns’ submissions are subjected to the same strict standards as any other submissions to the magazine. Editorial interns with strong writing skills and professionalism will be asked to write monthly profiles of artists for our multimedia blog site, Tikkun Daily.
WEB EDITORIALinterns at Tikkun scour the blogosphere for posts to which they think Tikkun’s daily site should respond. They play a central role in finding and managing the content on the magazine’s new multimedia blog site, Tikkun Daily. Editorial interns with strong writing skills and professionalism will be asked to write monthly profiles of artists for our multimedia blog site, Tikkun Daily. Those Web interns who are familiar enough with the magazine to have fully grasped its worldview and who demonstrate outstanding reporting and writing skills may eventually be invited to blog regularly, as well.
PUBLISHING interns work with the magazine’s editorial and business staff to analyze the magazine’s subscriptions, newsstand sales, and sale of ads. They also help craft and execute new business plans for the magazine. This internship is an opportunity for students interested in publishing, marketing, business, and sales to gain experience in project management and creative problem solving.
GENERAL MAGAZINE OUTREACH/PUBLICITY interns spread awareness about Tikkun and its unique offerings by engaging in substantive conversations with print/radio/television journalists, bloggers, professors, and members of the general public who may not yet be aware of the magazine. They write letters to the editor, send professional outreach emails, and make phone calls to public intellectuals. They also attend lectures, political events, cultural events, and media conferences to hand out back issues of the magazine and solicit subscribers. ONLINE MAGAZINE OUTREACH/PUBLICITY interns are additionally in charge of updating content about the magazine on numerous social networking sites and bookmarking articles by Tikkun’s authors and editors using Delicious.
ART interns work on our national magazine and on our website, generating illustration ideas and conducting image research, to find images that are not only artistically strong but also have social content. Interns with strong art skills may also be encouraged to try their hand at creating original illustrations to be considered for publication in the magazine.
