Star Tribune Media Company is Minnesota’s largest producer and distributor of news, information and advertising across multiple print and digital platforms, including newspaper, website, mobile, tablet and video formats. The Star Tribune newspaper and StarTribune.com regularly reach more than two-thirds of the adults in the Twin Cities market or more than 1.7 million people. The company has been serving the Minneapolis/Saint Paul market for more than 144 years, providing trusted local and regional news and information produced by the largest force of professional journalists in the state. Star Tribune has more than 1,000 employees.

The Star Tribune offers 10-week summer reporting internships in business, features, metro and sports. 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 are paid the same as first-year professionals, $692 a week.

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

We expect our interns:

• to develop their own story ideas and to run hard at the assignments we give them
• to have a valid driver’s license if they’re working as reporters or photographers
• to conduct themselves in a professional manner

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 not very good if you’ve never 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 Dec. 1, 2013, should include:

• Up to 10 of your best published clips demonstrating your ability to report and write clear, compelling stories on deadline
• A cover letter telling us what skills you’d bring to the position, why you want to be a journalist and the  department (business, features, metro or sports) in which you’d like to intern
• A resume detailing your journalism experience as well as 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’s seen you work in a professional environment on deadline. Please do not submit letters of reference from fellow student journalists.

How to apply online

• You must fill out our online application, which you can do by clicking on the link below.
• You can upload your cover letter, resume and clips using our online tool, which accepts a number of file formats (PDF, JPEG, FIG, DOC, DOCX, TXT and BMP).
• Our system will let you upload up to six files in addition to your cover letter and resume.
• If you have more than six files to submit beyond your resume and cover letter, you should combine some of them.
• None of your files can be larger than 2 MB.
• You can complete your online application in stages by selecting the link marked “Continue later” at the bottom of each page. That will prompt the system to email you a case-sensitive username and password that you can use to sign in and finish at a later time.
• We won’t see your application until you click submit. Once you take that step, you won’t be able to alter your application or attach additional documents to it.
• If you apply online, your references can email letters of recommendation to [email protected] with your name in the subject line, or snail mail them to Duchesne Drew (address below).  Please ask your references to write your name on the envelope.

The online application tool we use, SmartRecruiters, is optimized to work with Mozilla Firefox. Other browsers may not give you full functionality.

Questions?

If you have questions about the internship program, please reach out to our internship coordinators.

• You can call Duchesne Drew at 612-673-7111 or email him at [email protected].
• Or you can call staff writer Neal Justin at 612-673-7431 or email him at [email protected].