Winter Internship at The Suburban (Graduate Diploma Students)

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For Graduate Diploma students only

Type: Unpaid Internship for academic credit at the Journalism department

Organization: The Suburban Newspaper

Location: 7575 TransCanada Highway, Ville Saint-Laurent

When: Winter 2025

Duration: 160 hours

Deadline: December 1st

Internship Summary:

The intern will have a chance to work on content for all departments at The Suburban Newspaper, going out on assignment with a variety of writers. This includes news, features (arts and entertainment), sports, web (blogs), art production and design, and video features. Interns will take on assigned work as well as come up with original story ideas and content. Regular meetings will be held at the office, but some work will be done independently as well.

Main Responsibilities:

The main duties include writing for the print newspaper as well as The Suburban’s website. It will also entail working on video content with the video editor (streeters, etc.), helping with social media, periodically sitting in during weekly newspaper layout, and observing departmental meetings.

Qualifications:

Graduate Diploma Students

How To Apply:

By December 1st,  send a letter of interest along with your CV to Jenn Cox (wordaddict914@gmail.com) with lucie.laumonier@concordia.ca in CC; indicating “Suburban Internship” in the subject field.

JOUR450 Bursaries: Next Generation Journalists Bursary Program

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With support from the New Generation Journalists Bursary Program (an initiative from J-Schools Canada, The Canadian Journalism Foundation, and the Google News Initiative), the Department of Journalism offers two (2) bursaries of $2,312.50 to full- and part-time undergraduate students enrolled in JOUR450-Journalism Practicum during the Fall 2024 and completing an unpaid internship. The bursaries are meant to help students offset living expenses incurred during their placement.

Eligibility:

– Full-time and part-time undergraduate students of the Department of Journalism

– Enrollment in JOUR450 in the Fall 2024

– Unpaid internship placement

– Applicants agree to be acknowledged publicly as participants in the bursary program and be featured on the J-Schools Canada website

– Students agree to participate in one Google News Lab Training session, as per the program rules

To apply, send:

– A one-page letter of intent describing (1) what you hope to achieve during the journalism practicum, and (2) why you would benefit from financial support during your placement

– Current transcript

Applications will be assessed on the quality of their letter of intent, academic results, and financial need, by a committee of two members of the Department of Journalism, who are the Internship Coordinator and the Undergraduate Program Director

Applications should be sent to Dr Lucie Laumonier (lucie.laumonier@concordia.ca) and Dr Elyse Amend (elyse.amend@concordia.ca) by November 1, 2024 if you are enrolled in JOUR450 in the Fall 2024.

Two more bursaries will be offered to students enrolled in JOUR450 and JOUR508 during the Winter 2025 term.

$700 Writing Contest for Undergraduate Students

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L’Observatoire de la liberté d’expression (UQAC) is pleased to announce the launch of the first edition of its contest on freedom of expression aimed at undergraduate students!

The jury members have selected the following theme for this year: Are there limits to freedom of expression?

The essays (around 1100 words) are due by December 1st, 2024.

Participants have the chance to have their work published, win a one-year subscription to Le Devoir, and receive bookstore gift vouchers worth a total of $700.

All contest details can be found on our website at this address: https://www.uqac.ca/libobs/concours/.

Carbon Paper Newsletter student job position available / Papier carbone ouvre un poste étudiant à temps partiel 

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Are you an undergrad student interested in environmental and climate change journalism, and you’re able to write and edit in both French and English? Carbon Paper/Papier Carbone, the bilingual climate change journalism newsletter, is looking for a bilingual research assistant to fill a position of web editor and writer. Established in 2022, the newsletter highlights the best Canadian environmental and climate change reporting and scientific contributions in the field of climate communication research. Working under the supervision of Associate Professor Amelie Daoust-Boisvert and alongside of coordinator and MA student Brianna Losinger-Ross, your role would be to assist in the planning, writing, editing, translating and publication the 2024–2025 editions of the monthly newsletter. 

Conditions 

  • This role is part time, 10 hours per month from October 1, 2024, to April 15, 2025; 
  • Probation/essay period of one month.  
  • Remote work only; 
  • Requires occasional Zoom meetings (around one per month) to discuss and plan content; 
  • As this contract falls under the CREW union, benefits will be offered according to the union agreement. 

Requirements 

  • Journalism experience, such as having stories published in student media. 
  • Very good knowledge of spoken and written English and French with a good ability to translate from one to the other.  
  • Good organizational skills and ability to respect deadlines and a determined publication workflow.  
  • Interest for climate change and environmental issues.  

This is a great opportunity to add stories to your portfolio, get editing experience and familiarize yourself with the Canadian climate reporting landscape and research in that area.  

If you are interested in applying, please email your CV, a brief interest statement and at least two stories by your byline to Brianna Losinger-Ross at Brianna Leigh Losinger-Ross brianna.losinger-ross@mail.concordia.ca before September 17, 2024. 

Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and aims to recruit diverse staff. 

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