Summer Internships, Boston Globe, Dorchester, MA

Posted April 22, 2016

The Boston Globe is moving from Morrissey Boulevard to 53 State Street (newsroom and business side) and to Taunton (production) by January 1 of 2017. The Globe is moving from 850,000 square feet of space to a combined 375,000 square feet. So we cannot take everything with us. One of the most important newsroom resources is our library. The original source material which includes indexed clips of every story written before 1981 and every photograph (and outtakes) published by the Globe will eventually be donated to a university where we will continue to have access to them. This is a great opportunity for those who have an interest in journalism and Boston history.

The Globe is looking for several interns who are able to work independently on the following projects:  1) Digitize photos and add meta-data to the files. This is our top priority; 2) Pull samples from boxes of photo negatives to help identify what, if any, is significant and should be saved; 3) Pull fiche from library clip files, so it can be saved when files are donated to our yet-to-be-chosen archive;  4) Curate the clip files to pare it down.

Pay:  $12 per hour

Hours:  40 hours/ week [some flexibility in exact hours]

Start date:  July 5, 2016 with earlier start dates available

Please send a letter of interest with a resume to Allyson Parente  at [email protected]. 

Please indicate availability for a start date as well as preferred hours.  There is some flexibility for students who are taking classes during the summer.