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By WisconsinWatch | 6 hours ago

Jentri Colello/For the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Mia Sato, one of the Center's current public engagement and marketing interns, setting up a Facebook Live video stream at the March 30 Watchdog 101 Workshop.

The award-winning Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is seeking to hire a public engagement and marketing intern for the 2017-18 academic year.

The paid intern will assist the Associate Director in engaging the Centers audiences through social media, events and other outreach, and working to increase and track the reach and impact of WisconsinWatch.org reports.

The internship will begin in fall 2017 and may be extended for up to a full year.

Eligibility is limited to undergraduate and graduate students who are currently enrolled in or graduating in May 2017 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where the independent nonprofit and nonpartisan Center is based.

Pay is $11 an hour. The schedule is flexible and negotiable about 15 to 40 hours per week during the academic year.

The application deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, April 14, 2017.

The intern will be provided office space in Vilas Communication Hall.

Some travel around Wisconsin may be required. Access to a laptop is required.

Strong editorial and social media writing skills, keen attention to detail and an ability to work independently are desired. Excel, WordPress, Adobe, Mailchimp and basic design skills are preferred.

Applicants must submit the following in electronic form to Associate Director Lauren Fuhrmann at lfuhrmann@wisconsinwatch.org:

The nonpartisan, nonprofit Center increases the quality and quantity of investigative reporting in Wisconsin while training current and future generations of investigative journalists. Its work fosters an informed citizenry and strengthens democracy. The Center is guided by its values: Protect the vulnerable. Expose wrongdoing. Seek solutions. It focuses on government integrity particularly the role of money in politics and policymaking and quality of life issues such as education, the environment, the economy, health and the justice system.

Since July 2009, the Center has produced nearly 300 major news reports that have been cited, published or broadcast by more than 500 newspapers, radio and TV stations and news websites in Wisconsin and nationwide. The estimated audience of the Centers reports is nearly 59 million people. The Center has received 48 Milwaukee Press Club Awards and three finalist citations in the Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards student category. In 2012, the Centers collaboration with the UW-Madison journalism school won the Associated Press Media Editors first Innovator of the Year for College Students award.

The Centers former reporting interns are thriving in journalism and related fields. They have worked for news organizations across the nation and around the world, including the Green Bay Press-Gazette, WisPolitics.com, USA Today, Voice of San Diego, NBC, Appleton Post-Crescent, The Nation, Yakima Herald Republic, Forbes and The Associated Press.

More details about the Centers journalistic and financial operations are available at: http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/about/

The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is a nonprofit organization. If you value our work, please help support it.

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