interns

Blogger Has Sex

Hamilton Nolan · 09/03/09 12:52PM

In your picturesque Thursday media column: Journalism used as a tool to obtain sexual satisfaction, WaPo libelously ponders libel, the homeless intern speaks words of hope, and FAIR is cutting writers' pay.

Homelessness Now an Edge in Elle Internships

Hamilton Nolan · 08/25/09 09:54AM

A homeless woman has landed a (coveted?) four-month internship with Elle magazine, proving that unemployed journalists need only fall a *little* farther to get "back in the game."

Gawker Is Seeking Video Interns

Gabriel Snyder · 08/21/09 01:03PM

Do you like to watch TV? Would like to watch TV for us instead of your Twitter account? (The pay is the same, btw.) Well, lucky you: the Gawker Video team is looking for fall interns. Details after the jump.

Won't You Be Michael Chertoff's Unpaid Intern?

The Cajun Boy · 08/11/09 11:18PM

Surely you've sat around in the midst of your recessionary squalor and thought, "Gee, I'd really love an unpaid internship at the consulting/lobbying firm started by the former head of Homeland Security under President Bush." Well, today's your lucky day!

Stand Up For the Chicago Brokeolympics

Hamilton Nolan · 07/27/09 11:39AM

The Way We Live Now: Standing. There are so many unpaid interns, we can't even find seats for them all. It's good practice. The 2016 Chicago Olympics' hot new sports are "Standing on the unemployment line" and "Standing there, drunk."

Wretched Interns Desperately Compete for Life-Sustaining Snack Cakes

Hamilton Nolan · 07/14/09 04:27PM

Things have gotten so bad that unpaid corporate interns are literally starving. Across America, interns are desperately prostituting their fresh young smiling faces in return for a single box of Little Debbie muffins, so they may live another day.

Celeb Media Interns '09: Qualified

Hamilton Nolan · 06/15/09 03:07PM

A new summer has blossomed (technically), and with it a new crop of celebrity media interns, riding their family names into coffee-fetching and fact-checking gigs that should rightfully go to miserable, debt-wracked, overqualified J-school graduates. This year's celeb intern class:

Build An Entire Magazine, Get Nothing Credit

Hamilton Nolan · 05/19/09 01:08PM

In your total ripoff Tuesday media column: the worst media internship offer in at least a couple days, flackery invades the media (moreso), and a J-school student would rather not help solve a murder:

Theo Spielberg, Student, Joins New York, as Intern

Hamilton Nolan · 05/18/09 11:50AM

Celebrity spawn news! New York magazine has used a fair and impartial process to hire new interns, and one of them happens to be Steven Spielberg's son! Allow him to introduce himself [UPDATED below]:

The Death of the Entry Level Job

Hamilton Nolan · 03/18/09 10:13AM

2009 is a terrible time to be young, if you're the type of young person who wants a job in the media, as opposed to the drug distribution industry. The "entry level" is...closed.

Worst Media Internship Ever Welcomes New Depression

Hamilton Nolan · 02/19/09 12:37PM

Attention, unemployed young media people: according to what we fear may be a real Craigslist job posting, you may be able to make up to $10 working for a publishing company! If you're not "bitchy."

Desperate Youth Pay For Internships

Ryan Tate · 01/27/09 11:51PM

The ongoing collapse of the American economy means middle-class college grads must behave like coddled aristocratic twits and secure internships through their parents' largesse.