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Work For Free!
If you're in the Washington, DC area and interested in breaking into the exciting world of professional political punditry, be advised that The American Prospect is seeking interns. Obviously, the whole "work without getting paid" thing has a limited appeal for many people, but it really is the sort of thing one is expected to do in order to get into journalism, and the TAP internship is a much better deal for the interns than was the thing that, say, I did when I was in college.
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Comments
the thing that, say, I did when I was in college
which was?
Posted by: Otto | Feb 1, 2005 1:05:46 PM
Must one have a particular political ideology to qualify?
Posted by: Old Europe | Feb 1, 2005 1:09:19 PM
What Old Europe said. :-)
Posted by: Al | Feb 1, 2005 1:25:35 PM
I did an internship at Rolling Stone that was heavy on getting muffins for the boss and light on journalism/hanging with rock stars.
Posted by: Matthew Yglesias | Feb 1, 2005 1:53:50 PM
MY: I did an internship at Rolling Stone that was heavy on getting muffins for the boss and light on journalism/hanging with rock stars.
Uh oh. I better stop telling everyone that "Almost Famous" is biographically accurate. Come to think of it, the time period should have tipped me off.
Posted by: Paul Callahan | Feb 1, 2005 2:11:18 PM
What a downer...getting muffins for the boss WASN'T interesting at Rolling Stone? Guess you should have worked at Enron, I understand that many of the bosses there married their muffins.
Posted by: serial catowner | Feb 1, 2005 2:30:35 PM
Mmmmm....muffins.
Posted by: James Joyner | Feb 1, 2005 3:33:34 PM
Might have been more interesting if you ate one of the muffins now and then. Would you like my college daze brownie recipie?
Posted by: C.J.Colucci | Feb 1, 2005 3:48:11 PM
Also, if they say no, don't think they mean no. They might, a week later, mean yes, and then you can reject them (ha!) and go to the Washington Monthly.
But you can still have Prospecters over for dinner. They're good people.
Or so I hear.
Posted by: Ezra | Feb 1, 2005 3:48:21 PM
Honest question. One thing I've never understood: why is it exploitation for, say, GM to hire somebody for $2.00 per hour, but perfectly ok for TAP or Congress to hire somebody for $0.00/summer?
And also, don't you err on the side of hiring rich kids, discriminating against the poor and the middle class?
Posted by: ostap | Feb 1, 2005 3:55:09 PM
Matthew Yglesias wrote:
the whole "work without getting paid" thing has a limited appeal for many people, but it really is the sort of thing one is expected to do in order to get into journalism
Which is why, as Colby Cosh noted recently, young journalists come from rich(er) families.
TAP, of all places, should offer paid internships to ensure that progressive journalism is not the province of the rich. It may help ameliorate that much discussed gap between progressive lefty journalists and the people they are supposed to champion.
Posted by: Ikram | Feb 1, 2005 3:55:35 PM
I agree Ikram and Ostap: Yes, TAP shd offer stipends.
Posted by: Otto | Feb 1, 2005 3:57:18 PM
How is someone supposed to live on erm, nothing for a whole summer? Or is this another one of those tilted toward the rich things?
Posted by: Mimiru | Feb 1, 2005 4:48:59 PM
Hey, looks like TAP is conspiring to keep poor people out of journalism! *snicker*
Posted by: Al | Feb 1, 2005 6:45:57 PM
I'm a journalist, going on 13 years in the business, and all through college I never once had an unpaid internship. I couldn't have afforded to. Worked for the PR department at Sony one summer, then as assistant to a New York Daily News columnist, then as an intern at the New York Times. Admittedly, I was lucky, but there are paid internships out there, and young aspiring journalists without much parental support should know they don't have to starve to get into the business.
Posted by: John | Feb 1, 2005 11:00:13 PM
Admittedly, I did get (under)paid during my college summer jobs, but they were quite a bit even less interesting than even muffin provision. Working in the filing rooms at Wells Fargo Bank and E*Trade in the early 1990s were.....susbtantially less than stimulating. Heck, the things barely even made decent resume fodder.
Posted by: burritoboy | Feb 2, 2005 12:12:06 AM
