Pulitzer Center Liason Internship

Pulitzer Center Liaison description:
A Pulitzer Center Liaison is a well-connected student leader with an interest in journalism, international affairs, the online world, and educational outreach. The Liaison promotes Pulitzer Center’s sponsored reporting, plans Pulitzer Center events, identifies teachers covering related subject matters, and coordinates interaction between relevant classes and Pulitzer Center journalists via their weblogs and reports.
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Duties:
· Promote Pulitzer Center reporting initiatives within your institution and to the broader community
o Examples: Outreach to the blogosphere, websites, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, student groups, related courses, getting students to sign up for Pulitzer Center’s newsletter, engaging students in Pulitzer Center blogs, etc.
· Coordinate efforts between Pulitzer Center staff and your institution
· Coordinate logistics of a Pulitzer Center event at your institution
· Collect feedback from participating teachers and students

Time Commitment:
One semester to one year

Compensation:
Compensation could be in the form of internship credits or a small stipend.

About the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:
The Pulitzer Center's primary objective is to raise the standard of international reporting in a way that engages both policy-makers and the broad public, especially high school and university students.

Our model targets the supply of international reporting in the U.S. mainstream press by providing travel grants to journalists. We then extend this effort, targeting demand through educational outreach efforts. Stimulating broad public engagement is the driving principle of our website, with a “project page” for each reporting initiative that contains a variety of points of entry: print articles, photographs, video, blogs from the field, related web links, and opportunities to engage with the journalists while they are reporting and once the material is publicly released.

Rather than gate-keeping, our objective is to encourage “bridge-building” -- to bridge the gaps between new and traditional media, between citizen and news provider, and between the American public and the international issues that affect us all. We see the Pulitzer Center Liaisons as a way to help bridge this gap.

Visit our website www.pulitzercenter.org for more information and to get a sense of our work.

Pulitzer Center’s current reach:
Pulitzer Center-funded projects have appeared in over 20 mainstream newspapers, magazines and broadcast outlets. Platforms include The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek International, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, PBS, and LinkTV. Over 20 Pulitzer Center-funded video documentaries have appeared as “In Focus” segments on the public-television program Foreign Exchange. We have also worked closely with YouTube where a number of our short documentaries have already been featured as “editor’s picks.” In September 2007 one Pulitzer Center video featured on YouTube drew a quarter of a million views! Since January 2007, nearly 50,000 visitors have come to the Pulitzer Center website and another 12,000 visitors to our blog sites. Millions more have had access to Pulitzer Center projects via our media partners. We want to expand our reach even further.

What’s in it for you:
Pulitzer Center Liaisons will have the opportunity to work directly with the Pulitzer Center staff and with some of the best international journalists in the world, helping to promote their work and in the process getting first-hand exposure to print and broadcast journalism, video documentaries, and the cutting-edge tools of interactive multi-media presentations on the Web. Liaisons will be encouraged to submit their own reports for Pulitzer Center website forums and to make proposals for Pulitzer Center travel grants. Most important of all, these Liaisons will be part of an exciting new social network aimed at reinvigorating not just journalism but debate on issues crucial to the maintenance of America’s core democratic values.

To apply:

Please send us a one-page cover letter explaining why you would be a good fit for this role. Be sure to specify at least three ideas you would hope to implement as Pulitzer Center Liaison to promote our work. Be as specific as possible when referring to your past experiences, current responsibilities and related skills.

We are appointing qualified students as Pulitzer Center Liaisons on a rolling basis.

Send your letters to Ann Peters, Director of Development and Outreach, at apeters@pulitzercenter.org


Thank you for your interest in the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting!