Publishing - Museum Assistant Editor – 2022 Winter/Spring INTERNSHIP

"Some educational institutions require prior approval before the start of an internship. It is the responsibility of the student to check with their institution to be sure they meet any requirements before they accept a position."

Please look at all the sections of our magazine and tell us which ones you are especially interested in and whether you want to focus on social media, writing or both.  Please especially study our Museum Section in our Chicago edition –

Supervision:

Amy Munice, Editor in Chief, will be the primary supervisor of your internship. She is the co-publisher of the magazine, a 30+ year PR professional and freelance journalist, and cultural reporter who has penned many hundreds of articles. She will be the author of your future reference for job hunting purposes.

You will be responsible for keeping a to-do list updated in real time, and a cumulative report- -which if possible, we would prefer you also share with your school internship supervisor.

Training sessions are held by zoom—usually in small groups—throughout the week and weekend. Initially you will need to adapt your schedule in order to attend training sessions for your role in the soonest possible timeframe. Once you have the prerequisite skills, you determine your schedule each week in order to meet your school’s hour requirements for your internship.

Picture This Post is an entirely volunteer organization, from top to bottom. We are a not-for-profit (as opposed to a 501c3 non-profit) – too small to hire accountants etc. needed for non-profit status. Students are like all volunteers EXCEPT that much time/energy goes into training students and helping you develop a portfolio for future job hunting.  

JOB DUTIES/TRAINING:

 

Hours flexible 10+ per week. (Plus 10+ hours if writing training is desired).

Amy Munice, your supervisor and editor in chief, will work with your academic internship supervisor to ensure you receive academic credit. You are responsible for collecting information on all the pre-requisites for this credit - -hours, etc. -- and forwarding the details so that your academic credit is assured.

Picture this Post reviews museums across North America and publishes preview, reviews and other museum coverage in the following cities—

Your job will emphasize learning how to edit press releases from museums to make them appropriate for journalistic (non-promotional) previews. You will also learn how to conduct interviews via email +-- also for preview coverage. You will learn how to layout these preview articles and do basic social media shares of these stories. You will be responsible for cherry picking museum exhibits that best match our overall content and select openings etc. for previews.

Attending museum exhibit opening and writing museum exhibit reviews can be added to your charter as time (10+ hours) and skills allow. We will teach you our unique PICTURE THIS approach to writing reviews. (See attached General Writers Guidelines)

  

You will also help our magazine to shine a light on worldwide museums as part of our Travel Section (See Link) You will also make sure that our magazine, Picture this Post, is on museum media lists.

You will usually confer with the editor/publisher on a daily basis via teleconference. 

  

Prerequisite: Proven interest in museums.