Backpacker Magazine –

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 a cover letter and resume to BACKPACKER Associate Editor Rachel Zurer at rzurer@backpacker.com.

***For school credit only.

Gear Guide Internship in BACKPACKER's Photo Department

This fall we are looking for an intern to help with the huge task of calling in all the gear for our spring gear guide photo shoots. The intern should have very good organizational skills and be very excited about outdoor gear. You do not have to know about studio photography, but an interest in helping each product look it's best is a must.

This internship would not only be beneficial to photography/art/design majors, but also for anyone majoring in communications, or hoping to be involved with PR or marketing. You will have daily contact with the major PR companies in the outdoor space.

If you are hired:
Beginning in October you will be contacting companies to request specific pieces of gear. You will communicate with the other members of the photo department what's here, what's coming, and any companies not responding. Then the photo shoots begin. You will help on set, steaming sleeping bags, stuffing packs, setting up tents, touching all the newest and best gear for the upcoming season. 

Time commitment: 20-24 hr/wk in our Bolder office. Specific days and hours are flexible

Dates: October 2012-December 2012 (with option to be continued into the spring semester)

Please send your resume to Genny Fullerton at GFullerton@backpacker.com and follow up with a call to 303-625-1613

***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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