The Star Tribune Media Company is the largest source of news and information in the upper Midwest, delivering more of what matters to Minnesota all day, every day.  In the 16th-largest U.S. market, Star Tribune reaches more consumers than any other media brand, with the country’s 5th-largest Sunday newspaper, the most-visited local website, numerous mobile and tablet apps, and a portfolio of print and digital products. In 2013 the company was recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes, as well as the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce “Best in Business” award.

The Star Tribune offers a 10-week summer design internship that exposes a developing journalist to print design in all our sections. We pride ourselves in choosing talented, driven college and graduate students who can design pages in the whirl of deadline and immerse themselves in a project over a few shifts. We expect our interns to come to us with skill and leave with polish and invaluable experience from a major-market newsroom. Each intern is assigned a mentor in addition to a supervising editor.

We recruit nationally for this program and pride ourselves on choosing talented, driven college and graduate students who can handle breaking news as well as enterprise stories. Our summer interns are paid the same as first-year professionals, $720 a week in 2016.

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

Candidates for our print design internship should show a strong, developing visual sense for page design outside of the classroom. They should have newsroom deadline experience designing news, sports, business or features pages. Some knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is required, and knowledge of Adobe InDesign is a bonus.

Most successful applicants have completed their junior year in college, worked for a college news outlet AND interned with at least one other professional daily news organization. While we would never say never, 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’ve 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 of your best published clips demonstrating your ability to design compelling pages.

• You can upload the pages to our jobs site or send us a link to your online portfolio.

• If you don't have a digital portfolio, you can mail a CD or your portfolio to the address below. We will not return them.

• A resume detailing your journalism experience, and three references, including their titles, phone numbers and email addresses.

• A cover letter telling us what skills you’d bring to the position and why you want to be a journalist.

• 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

Please DO NOT email your applications; to apply, you must use SmartRecruiters.com.