Editorial Assistant - Journalism
Job Description
The Communities of Hope program, a community news service under the Journalism Program in the Department of Media + Design + Communication, is looking for a student worker with journalism, history, and media production skills to work with the development of a community-driven news service and related classes.
Communities of Hope is a community-driven solutions journalism news service working with specific groups of people who have been erased, marginalized, underrepresented, misrepresented and maligned by mainstream media outlets.
Our mission is to empower people in those communities through training, paid work, information gathering, and educational storytelling to participate in the public conversations about the issues that affect them, about their histories, and about their roles in society, making them a central part of the decision-making process.
The student working in this position will be expected to:
- Assist with copyediting, fact checking, and technical editing of materials produced for publication.
- Assist with the production aspects of reporting projects developed in the program.
- Assist with the maintenance of a database of projects, organizations and community needs.
- Assist with the researching, planning, and delivery of tip sheets, resources and databases to help students in the program to cover local communities.
- Assist with the planning, liaison, and organization of projects by making contacts on campus and in local communities (phone calls, Zoom sessions, etc.), identifying potential source materials, and organizing and assisting students’ work.
- Contribute to projects by conducting their own research, reporting, production, writing, editing and distribution. The student will receive credit (bylines) and hold shared copyrights of every distributed product.
Special Skills Needed:
Basic journalism reporting and editing, data management using Google Sheets and basic organizational skills.
Academic Major Preferred:
Journalism, Communication (with minor or experience in journalism), but any majors with reporting, editing and organizational skills and a general understanding of news media may apply.
Starting Date:
Applications will stay open until the position is filled.
*Students are prohibited from driving during work-study employment with the limited exception of authorized work-study driver positions.
** All employees, including student employees, are required to participate in a short online training that will prepare you with the new protocols for working on campus. Please click on the following link to complete your training: http://rwu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4aBCUkcc7Vl7QF