The Dow Jones News Fund equips sports copy editors to tackle design, headline-writing, social media engagement and the dynamics of working for sports media.
College juniors, seniors and graduate students head to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where Dr. Charlyne Berens and Professor Sue Bullard coach them before their internships so that they can help the daily report draw sports media consumers. Intensive editing instruction and good writing mesh with new technology to produce interns who are ready to work from Day One.
Satisfied media partners have included The Denver Post, The New York Times, The Omaha World-Herald, The Hartford Courant, The New York Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Tulsa World and the Philadelphia Inquirer. See the 2014 interns’ comments at http://tinyurl.com/nda925s.
Editors can sign up to hire DJNF interns by Dec. 1 at https://www.newsfund.org by completing the Intern Request Form. Media are asked to pay interns $400 per week for 10 to 12 weeks and provide a $1,200 grant to DJNF to help underwrite the training.
Intern candidates have until Nov. 3 to apply online using the Editing and Digital application. Applicants must take a one-hour editing test available on their campuses.
Consult Linda Shockley, DJNF managing director, 609-520-5929 or linda.shockley@dowjones.com
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