Description:
Are you a college junior or senior? Have you worked on your college newspaper or other campus publication? Would you like to spend your summer working at a 180,000-circulation newspaper located near the beach? Then you are eligible for The Virginian-Pilot summer internship program!
The program is aimed at students with the following career aspirations:

Reporters – Copy Editors – Photographers – Page Designers

The Virginian-Pilot internships are highly competitive. Therefore, experience working on a college publication is a must, and a previous internship at a daily newspaper is a plus. Multimedia experience welcome. Reporters and photographers will need their own car. Sophomores and graduate students also are eligible. (you must be still enrolled in school in December 2009). Interns will have regular opportunities to meet with The Pilot’s editors and other newsroom professionals to talk about their career options.

Interested? Then here’s what you need to do:

1) Submit a cover letter and a resume that includes the names of three references.

2) Reporters, copy editors and designers should submit a print portfolio that includes eight to 10 published work samples showing the range of your best writing, page layout or headline writing.

3) Photographers and graphic artists should submit a print portfolio that includes at least 20 printed samples of published photographs or illustrations.

4) Send your completed packet to:

Denise Bridges, Director of Newsroom Recruitment, The Virginian-Pilot, 150 W. Brambleton Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23510.

Application Deadline: December 1, 2009. Packets postmarked after December 1 will not be reviewed. Please do NOT send completed packets by e-mail because they will overload our inbox. You may include a CD to accompany your packet or add links, but we must still see examples of your published work as it appeared in print.

The Pilot will selects 6 interns, who will be notified by Jan. 30, 2010. The pay is $600 a week. All internships run for 12 weeks, except for the one on the sports copy desk that lasts for six months. Got questions? E-mail denise.bridges@pilotonline.com.