Award-winning Investigative Journalist Seeks GIS Mapping Intern
Christine MacDonald, a veteran environmental journalist, author and Schell Reporting Fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, seeks a GIS intern with strong research skills. Digital savvy is a must, coding ability a plus.
Position available immediately
Seeking a graduate student or college senior skilled in the use of GIS to create maps that illuminate complicated issues. The maps produced will support the findings of a series of articles by MacDonald on topics including climate change, deforestation, water scarcity, the impacts of oil and gas drilling and factory farms, among other things.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Future investigative journalists, digital communicators, nonprofit leaders, university researchers, online developers, and anyone wishing to hone already stellar GIS skills; gain recognition in the field; and publish original work in large mainstream news publications.
The GIS intern will also gain knowledge of the publishing industry and how journalistic investigations work, and receive mentorship from a journalist with a long record of publishing in top U.S. news outlets. (Please see Christine MacDonald’s website for more information about her work.)
Qualifications:
· Candidates must have strong GIS skills and experience plus an interest in using GIS to help tell complex environmental news stories about problems facing the world;
· An ability to remain objective and engage people of different viewpoints;
· A desire to seek the truth and communicate it clearly to a wide audience;
· A commitment to accuracy and journalistic ethics;
· Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. Fluency in another language, in addition to English, is a plus;
· Organizational and time management skills;
· Comfortable working remotely with a minimum of supervision;
· Ability to set priorities and meet deadlines.
Flexible schedule
With the exception of occasional meetings, the GIS intern will make his/her own schedule and work independently with MacDonald’s guidance and mentoring.
This is an unpaid internship that will require 4-5 hours a week with tasks TBD. However, for each published article that includes GIS maps, MacDonald will provide a stipend payment equal to a minimum of 10 percent of her story fee.
To Apply: Please send a cover letter, resume + up to three examples of your work to:
Christine MacDonald, a veteran environmental journalist, author and Schell Reporting Fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, seeks a GIS intern with strong research skills. Digital savvy is a must, coding ability a plus.
Position available immediately
Seeking a graduate student or college senior skilled in the use of GIS to create maps that illuminate complicated issues. The maps produced will support the findings of a series of articles by MacDonald on topics including climate change, deforestation, water scarcity, the impacts of oil and gas drilling and factory farms, among other things.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Future investigative journalists, digital communicators, nonprofit leaders, university researchers, online developers, and anyone wishing to hone already stellar GIS skills; gain recognition in the field; and publish original work in large mainstream news publications.
The GIS intern will also gain knowledge of the publishing industry and how journalistic investigations work, and receive mentorship from a journalist with a long record of publishing in top U.S. news outlets. (Please see Christine MacDonald’s website for more information about her work.)
Qualifications:
· Candidates must have strong GIS skills and experience plus an interest in using GIS to help tell complex environmental news stories about problems facing the world;
· An ability to remain objective and engage people of different viewpoints;
· A desire to seek the truth and communicate it clearly to a wide audience;
· A commitment to accuracy and journalistic ethics;
· Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. Fluency in another language, in addition to English, is a plus;
· Organizational and time management skills;
· Comfortable working remotely with a minimum of supervision;
· Ability to set priorities and meet deadlines.
Flexible schedule
With the exception of occasional meetings, the GIS intern will make his/her own schedule and work independently with MacDonald’s guidance and mentoring.
This is an unpaid internship that will require 4-5 hours a week with tasks TBD. However, for each published article that includes GIS maps, MacDonald will provide a stipend payment equal to a minimum of 10 percent of her story fee.
To Apply: Please send a cover letter, resume + up to three examples of your work to:
Christine MacDonald, christine_ontheroad@yahoo.com
