These days it seems like more and more internships are unpaid. With the economy the way it is, people want to get their work done for free. We don’t mind it so much when it’s coming from non-profits, but areas like journalism seem to be some of the worst offenders when it comes to not paying interns who are doing valuable work. Today we’re going to at internships with The American Spectator – a journalistic publication run by a non-profit organization that actually pays their interns. The Spectator’s roots were planted in “1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley’s Old Ale House,” but The American Spectator as we know it wasn’t started until 1967 when the Saturday Evening Club took over the defunct publication. Today The Spectator, published by the non-profit American Spectator Foundation, is a monthly magazine covering news and politics with a strong conservative slant.
Whether you’re conservative or not, you have to like a non-profit publication that offers paid internships. A couple of weeks ago The American Spectator blogged about their need for interns. They say that they “don’t do the ‘Make A Copy For Me And Get Me Coffee’ thing,” and that interns get to spend a lot of time writing and making a name for themselves in the office. There are no specific requirements for The American Spectator’s internship program, nor do there seem to be any deadlines, but they do recommend “that applicants have experience writing for a college newspaper and a GPA above 3.0.” If you’d like to intern with The Spectator in the Washington, DC area, you can apply by sending a resume, writing samples, and references to editor@spectator.org, with the subject line “INTERNSHIP.”
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