Thank you for your interest in our internship program. We are always looking for bright, energetic, hard-working students who are interested in the field of magazine publishing.
CINCINNATI MAGAZINE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (EDITORIAL)
The intent of our program is to give students a taste of magazine life. Some of our former interns have gone on to full-time jobs in magazine publishing, armed with research, writing, and reporting skills that they honed during their time with us.
The primary areas of responsibility during the four-month internships are:
1) Fact checking. Every story that appears in the magazine is checked for accuracy, making fact checking the number one priority in our publishing process.
2) Research/reporting. You will be expected to help out on the research and—possibly reporting—for our larger feature packages (i.e. Top Doctors, Dining Out Guide, Travel, etc.) as well as our editorial Web content.
3) Completing short writing assignments. While fact checking is the number one priority in our internship program, we also encourage interns to research and pitch story ideas that would be appropriate for our readership. We guarantee that interns will get one clip for their portfolios, but additional opportunities to write for publication depends on the initiative students show on non-writing assignments.
4) Possibly helping with the maintenance and updating of our online calendar listings. This task includes removing old calendar items, writing/compiling new blurbs, and making editors aware of any mistakes in the listings.
5) Staff participation/interaction. Part of successfully completing an internship with us means that you have attempted to become a part of our staff. We expect interns to be proactive in asking questions, providing editorial input when requested, and seeking out the answers they need.
**NOTE: This is not a writing internship, however, the research and fact-checking responsibilities interns have at our magazine are very similar to tasks that many would take on in entry-level magazine jobs.
Our internships are unpaid and we require a minimum of 15 hours per week in the office (times and days vary depending on class/work schedules). If you are interested, please e-mail your resume, cover letter and clips to internships@cincinnatimagazine.com or mail them to:
Cincinnati Magazine, Editorial Internship Program
Carew Tower, 441 Vine St., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Summer internship - May to August
Application deadline: February 1 (postmarked)
Notification: March 30
Fall internship – late August to mid-December
Application deadline: June 1 (postmarked)
Notification: July 31
Spring internship - January to April
Application deadline: October 2 (postmarked)
Notification: November 30
To apply, you must be a permanent resident of or attend school in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area (that’s Hamilton, Butler, Clermont, and Warren counties in Ohio, and Kenton, Campbell, and Boone counties in Kentucky).