Star Tribune is the Upper Midwest’s largest integrated media company, defining and reaching audiences in Minnesota and around the world.

With the region’s most-visited website, one of the largest-circulation newspapers in the country, a range of digital and home-delivered advertising solutions, and numerous mobile and tablet apps, we touch more consumers than any other Minnesota media brand.

The Star Tribune offers a 10-week summer copy editing internship. We recruit nationally for this program and pride ourselves on choosing talented, driven college and graduate students who can cover breaking news as well as enterprise stories. Our summer interns will be paid the same as first-year professionals, $720 a week in 2016.

We expect our copy desk interns:
•    to be highly proficient with grammar, spelling and punctuation
•    to bring an editor's eye for clarity, accuracy and fairness to their work
•    to have a knack for writing compelling headlines
•    to be able to handle basic pagination
•    to conduct themselves in a professional manner

We provide:
•    a real-world experience in a major daily newsroom
•    a challenging and affirming environment that includes mentors as well as supervisors
•    weekly brown-bag lunch discussions on topics such as investigative reporting, narrative writing and multimedia storytelling.

The Star Tribune copy desk is looking for interns with excellent editing skills, a passion for writing great headlines and the ability to spot the errors that spell-checkers miss. Good communication skills and the ability to handle deadline pressure are a must. Proficiency with Web research tools and InCopy or similar word-processing software is preferred.

Most successful applicants have completed their junior or senior year of college, worked for a college news outlet AND interned with at least one other professional daily news organization.  The odds of your landing one of our internship spots are better if you've interned at a professional newspaper, news magazine or website. We’re looking for budding journalists who have demonstrated they’re ready to make the most of this opportunity.

Your application, which must be uploaded or postmarked by Nov. 15, 2015, should include:
•    Up to 10 clips of stories you've edited with notes explaining what role you played in making the stories clear and compelling.
•    A cover letter telling us what skills you’d bring to the position and why you want to be a journalist.
•    A resume detailing your journalism experience, and three references, including their titles, phone numbers and email addresses.
•    Two letters of recommendation. At least one of those letters should come from an editor who has seen you work in a professional environment on deadline. Please do not submit letters of reference from fellow student journalists.
•    Your references can email letters of recommendation to newsrecruiter[at]startribune.com with your name in the subject line. 

Questions?
If you have questions about the internship program that are not answered here, please reach out to our internship coordinators.
•    Call Colleen Stoxen at 612-673-7467 or email cstoxen[at]startribune.com.
•    Call staff writer Neal Justin at 612-673-7431 or email njustin[at]startribune.com
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