Children’s Pressline Internships
Children’s PressLine, NYC’s top youth news agency, is looking for college interns to work with us this summer as partner with the New York Daily News’ borough supplements. Give kids a voice and the power to use it! Make a difference! Be a journalist. PressLine 122 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10023 P: 212-501-1118 F: 212-501-1117 www.cplmedia.org Dates of Internship: mid-June to mid-Aug. Stipend/School Credit Available
Children’s PressLine is a non-profit media and youth leadership organization that works with kids, ages 8 to 18. We give kids the opportunity to represent themselves in the media. Our mission is to give kids a voice and the power to use it. Our work is read in the New York Daily News, the New York Amsterdam News and distributed to 400 newspapers nationwide through the Scripps Howard News Service.
Editorial Coordinator (Bronx). CPL is looking for a college intern to act as an editorial coordinator for our Bronx coverage for The New York Daily News during the summer of 2008. Interns will be responsible for managing teams of youth journalists as they research, brief, interview and write news stories on youth issues for an adult audience. Interns are responsible for brainstorming Bronx-specific news ideas with teen editors and engaging them in the story coordinating process. The intern will be responsible for producing one Daily News article a week for seven weeks for the Bronx section of the paper. Articles will cover children and teens’ neighborhood issues. Interns will oversee each step of the news-writing process, from story development to copy-editing. Interns will be responsible for managing youth journalists and producing 7 news features articles that will be printed in The New York Daily News (2.5 million daily readers).
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