Internship Opportunity

Kansas City Northeast News, 5715 St. John Avenue, K.C. MO 64123
www.northeastnews.net 816-241-0765

Position: Editorial Intern – Fall Semester

Qualifications

The successful candidate should have at least two years of college level news reporting experience on a variety of platforms including print, video, social media and audio. The successful candidate must be deadline oriented and able to produce well written, effective and objective news stories on a daily and weekly basis.

Internships are approximately 25-30 hours per week with some weekend or evening work possible.

This is a paid internship opportunity with the opportunity to earn college credit through the intern’s school.

Being a community weekly In Kansas City’s urban core, The Northeast News can offer a unique perspective on news gathering and presenting. Through print, digital, social media and with our digital media partners One Kansas City Radio and KKFI, 90.1 KansasCity Community Radio, we can offer the successful Intern the opportunity to be an Integral part of an active and cutting edge news organization. Given our small staff, there are Interface opportunities with all full time team members. (Design, Sales, Editorial, Publisher)

Interns are coached actively on a daily basis. Every time they’re given a new assignment or story to cover, they are counseled as to who to talk with In a specific city/county department, any background needed for the assignment and why the story is important to our neighborhood.

Please submit resume and writing samples to: northeastnews@socket.net