internships
Justin Charity · 01/11/14 04:50PM
When People Write for Free, Who Pays?
Cord Jefferson · 03/08/13 06:10PMThis week, veteran journalist Nate Thayer posted to his personal blog an email exchange he'd recently had with an editor from the Atlantic. The editor was asking Thayer to take something he'd already written and adapt a shorter version for use on the Atlantic's website, but there was a catch: The editor wanted Thayer to do it for free. "I am a professional journalist who has made my living by writing for 25 years," Thayer wrote, "and am not in the habit of giving my services for free to [for-profit] media outlets so they can make money by using my work and efforts by removing my ability to pay my bills and feed my children."
Internships Don't Need to Pay, as Long as You're Rich
Hamilton Nolan · 01/08/13 12:00PMUnpaid internships are controversial. "Workplace experience, invaluable connections, blah blah," say the employers. "You fired your lowest-wage workers and now you have us doing their menial jobs which have nothing to do with 'education,'" say the actual interns. All sides should be able to agree on this: unpaid internships—essentially part time jobs that pay nothing—are an incredible hardship for students without money, thereby tilting the playing field wildly in favor of students with money (as if they needed any more help).
Gawker is Looking for Fall Interns
Leah Beckmann · 08/22/12 10:00AMTweeted Applications Make Summer Internships Even More of a Joke
Adrian Chen · 03/25/11 11:11AMPeople lose jobs all the time by writing dumb stuff on Twitter. But Newton's Third Law of Internet Dynamics means people also get jobs by writing dumb stuff on Twitter. Well, in this case it's internships: the New York Times recounts how the ad agency Campbell Mithun hired six summer interns via a Twitter competition, "The Lucky 13," wherein they had to come up with 13 tweets making their case.
Do Not Pay For Any Internships (Especially Not in DC)
Hamilton Nolan · 08/30/10 10:20AMHow to Get an Internship at Mayor Bloomberg's Office
Max Read · 07/20/10 01:45AMThe 'Most Amazing Opportunity of the Summer'
Jeff Neumann · 07/05/10 09:38AMAnother Rich Kid Gets a Foot in the Door at Vogue
Brian Moylan · 04/29/10 12:03PMBuy Your Fake Vogue Internship
Hamilton Nolan · 04/08/10 11:30AMBooze, Bed-Sharing and Betrayal Are Pillars of Korean Journalism
Ryan Tate · 02/22/10 01:26PMThe Internship of Your Dreams Is Here
cityfile · 01/07/10 01:06PMWhich Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
Foster Kamer · 11/21/09 05:30PMHomelessness Now an Edge in Elle Internships
Hamilton Nolan · 08/25/09 09:54AM'Westchester Is the Bestchester Is an Allegory of ...'
Hamilton Nolan · 06/23/09 10:30AMSplitsville for Paris
cityfile · 06/11/09 06:04AM
• It looks like it's over for Paris Hilton and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt. Please excuse us while we go get a big box of tissues; we really weren't mentally prepared for news this upsetting this morning. [People, Sun]
• A couple of weeks ago, it was Gwynnie Paltrow who was getting blamed for setting A-Rod up with Kate Hudson. Now real estate "superagent" Adam Modlin is taking credit for brokering the transaction. Go figure. [NYDN]
• Maybe Kanye West and Amber Rose didn't break up, after all. Or maybe they did break up, but they're spending a lot of time together anyway? It's a mystery, really. [P6]
• Coco Rocha is not going to be an intern at Vogue this summer. She's just spending a lot of time there so she can "learn more about the business." [WWD]