Internship Programs / BQE Media - Queens Ledger - Greenpoint Star Weekly Newspaper Group [email protected] -718-639-7000 OR 45-23 47 St. Sunnyside Queens 11377, clips to news@queensledger.com
This 12-week program will require between 10 and 15 hours per week and has a focus on one of themario 5 tracks. We give a stipend of $300 for expenses given to the student throughout the 12 weeks as long as the student continue to show up and works the required hours. There could be some weekend work. Candidates will not be considered unless they have a grasp of social media AND have at least 250 Facebook friends, 250 Instagram followers or 250 Twitter followers. Experience in operating a Facebook fan page is a plus.
1.Writing Track This track will consist of three components. Part A: Covering a beat for your own blog. Students will operate a blog or a few sites for a local beat of their choosing and be responsible for updating it with neighborhood information three times per week. Part B: Covering a beat for newspapers. Students will also generate traditional news articles on their beat to be published in our newspapers and website. Strong articles will necessitate monitoring local blogs, developing sources within the community and conducting significant research. On occasion, students will be asked to layout their content for the newspaper utilizing Indesign, which will be taught. Part C: News reporting. Students will also have a chance to hone their feature writing, with opportunities to write profiles, business features and magazine articles for our quarterly magazine. This also has the student developing and utilizing social media to disseminate stories. Students will be asked to tailor the same story for multiple digital platforms, including aggregating news for email notifications to our subscribers. This will involve local news subscription development.
2. Business Writing – developing dynamic marketing campaigns for clients Business writing. Public Relations type writing and/or reporting. Intern will be given two stories per week to write about a business person, a business itself, a new venture or restaurant. There will be some video work in this track as well. Students will then be given the opportunity to work with our marketing specialists in the design and discussions with our clients on promoting and marketing through print, digital and social platforms – while measuring response and adjusting the strategy. This emerging field is emerging as a skill the major news and web firms require. Amazon, GOOGLE look for this skill.
3. Media Social Network Track - Event Marketing and/or News Create, maintain & promote group of news-centric hyper-local social media platforms including our emerging facebook, instagram and twitter brands as well as use our digital news platforms to push news and information. Manage social media marketing for events that we help non-profit organizations run. This individual will also help us run our own events – we run 4 events per year. Note: This track requires a minimum of 500 facebook friends or 500 twitter followers and show you have built at least one fan page or event page.
4. Design & Advertising Track Magazine design and production - including placing video, audio, flash and flip platform production on our web sites. Advertising design for Newspapers , magazines and web sites, Indesign layout - illustrator - photoshop for advertising design. We will show the student the balance between the printed product and related web sites. The student will be responsible to clients and editors. Note: Art/design skill is required.
5. Photography in Media Track. Student will learn about taking great news photos and using Photoshop. Slideshows on the web. News & feature photography for newspapers, magazines, web. Student will cover everything to business openings to fires to breaking news.
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Internship Programs / BQE Media - Queens Ledger - Greenpoint Star Weekly Newspaper Group Student Application… [email protected] -718-639-7000 OR 45-23 47 St. Sunnyside Queens 11377,
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