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Employment and Internships

INTERNSHIPS

Editorial and Digital Internship
Score a BACKPACKER magazine internship and learn to create inspirational stories about the outdoors. BACKPACKER is looking for self-starting, detail-obsessed journalism students with writing, editing, and new media skills for semester-long internships.
Students will have the opportunity to write and edit for print and the web as well opportunities to shoot in-the-field-video, obtain essential GPS and content management system knowledge, and more.

• work side-by-side with an award-winning print
and web staff
• shoot, star in, and edit in-the-field videos
• write bylined stories, blogs, and trip reports
• manage writers and freelancers
• plan future issues
• learn the art of great story pitching
• network with magazine editors
• test new tents, boots, packs, and sleeping bags
• obtain essential web content management and
SEO skills.
• learn PhotoShop and InDesign Basics.
*5 minutes from CU campus, on the bus line and right off the bike path
*For-credit internships offered at 20 hours per week

Send resumes to BACKPACKER Senior Editor Shannon Davis at sdavis@backpacker.com.

***For school credit only.

Photography Internship

Backpacker magazine has a photography internship in the summer, fall, and spring. The main duties of the intern are assisting with photo research, communicating with photographers to obtain hi-res files, helping produce and assist on gear photo shoots, and communicating with gear companies about their products. The intern will have access to our stock request list and be encouraged to submit his or her photos if they have anything that fits our needs. In addition, the intern will be creating photography slideshows for the Backpacker website and digital editions and learning our content management system. There is an opportunity to create and develop a slideshow of your own. The theme of the photo project will be developed by you and the photo department.

This is not a shooting internship and while appreciated, it is not required to have great photographic abilities. An interest in photography and good communications skills are priority.


REQUIREMENTS: Ability to spend 2-3 days per week in the office from 9 to 5pm.

Summer dates: May/June - August/September

Fall dates: September - December/January

Spring: January - May

Please send your resume to Genny Fullerton at GFullerton@backpacker.com

***For school credit only.

NATIONAL PARKS WEBSITES INTERN
National Parks Trips (part of the Active Interest Media company, which also houses BACKPACKER) is looking for students who are self-motivated, web and social media savvy, and able to write/edit and assist with photo editing. NPT runs five national park websites and several print magazines, and is in the process of moving all sites to a WordPress platform. Key duties include: optimizing photos and content for the web; uploading the content to WordPress; writing/editing blogs and press releases; photo research; Q&A; and search engine optimization. This part-time (20 hours) internship is a for-credit only and is based in Boulder, CO. If interested, please send resume and cover letter to online@backpacker.com with the subject line: NPT Intern. In your cover letter please briefly answer this question: What is the most pressing issue affecting national parks today?

Full-Time Employment
Please visit the Active Interest Media corporate website--Backpacker magazine's parent company--for information regarding employment.

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