Via Will Sullivan, STLToday/St. Louis Post-Dispatch is looking for PAID spring and summer interns. The description is below the fold. NOTE: The Journerdist wants you to be sure to understand that all print resumes and clips will be recycled, so show your multimedia/online skills for this one. Deadline is Nov. 28.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLToday.com is looking for Multimedia Interns for the Spring and Summer of 2010. This evolving, 15th-largest newspaper in the United States was a Pulitzer finalist this year for Breaking News as well as the winner of two ONA Online Journalism Awards for Breaking News and Best Multimedia Feature and a Mid America Regional Emmy for Advanced Media Interactivity in 2008. The PD is looking for an enthusiastic, multidisciplined, creative and flexible multimedia journalist with a sense of humor, curiosity and adventure who can generate and execute multimedia ideas professionally and efficiently.

• Exceptional visual and audio content gathering and editing skills A
• gifted storyteller - no matter what form the content takes Final Cut Pro or iMovie Audacity (or other multi-track audio editing programs)
• Soundslides Ability to turn high-quality projects quickly
• Ability to write cleanly and create engaging, informative blog entries, captions, web teases and headlines
• Firm grasp of best practices for social media promotion and search engine optimization techniques

• Provide a brief biographical cover letter stating which internship you are interested in (Spring and/or Summer, you can apply to both, but will only be eligible to be selected for one)
• A resume
• A link to your website, blog or links to your previous multimedia work (Sorry, no CDs or print portfolios will be accepted.)
• Contact information for three references (Your references should include the name, title and phone number of the person who supervised/trained you)

Also, National Geographic is looking for two summer interns. Details are below the fold.

2010 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNSHIPS

The National Geographic magazine will offer two photography internships during the summer or fall of 2010.  The program is an opportunity for young photographers to experience first-hand the rigors of life in the professional world.  It is also an opportunity for us at the Geographic to scrutinize the work of those in whom we may have further interest.  We are proud that many of our regular “shooters” are former summer interns.

One internship is automatically offered to the winner of the College Photographer of the Year contest administered by the University of Missouri, Columbia.  For information go to www.cpoy.org.

The other internship is awarded based on a portfolio.  It is primarily for college students – undergraduate or graduate—but we will also consider someone not currently in school.  The purpose of the internship is experience and encouragement to those who aspire to be a photojournalist.  Interns must be at least 21 years of age and U.S. citizens, or have appropriate student work documents.

Both internships are for fourteen weeks at a salary of $480 a week.  When on assignment away from the city, the Geographic pays all expenses.  Transportation expenses to and from Washington at the start and conclusion of the internship are covered by the Society.  The interns are responsible for their own housing.

To apply, send us a single package that includes a portfolio of recent work (no more than 30 images), a resume, and a letter of recommendation from a photography teacher or established photojournalist.  We are interested in strong photojournalism, your ability to produce a visual narrative, and original story ideas.   CDs or DVDs are the preferred method of submission but portfolios may also be in the form of slides, prints or clippings of any combination, in color and/or black and white.  Digital images should be JPEGs, sized to approximately 1600 wide, 72 dpi.

We will accept portfolios in early January and all must be postmarked by January 30, 2010. Send to Susan Smith, Deputy Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine, 1145 17^th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.  Please clearly label your envelope, “NGM Photography Internship,” and if you would like for us to return your portfolio, you must include a self-addressed stamped envelope.

We will notify all applicants by email in early March 2010.   Please share this information with anyone who may be interested and eligible.

The Journal Times in Racine County, Wisc. reports that financial hardships at one local college newspaper forced its staff to think Web-first in a very big way.

The Ranger News, the weekly student newspaper for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has folded its print operation and now runs exclusively online.

The News' editor in chief, Jo Kirst, said growing financial pressures -- the paper spent $22,000 a year to print 30 issues -- led the paper to cease printing.

Even in an era of mounting difficulties for newspapers, few collegiate papers have gone the route of The News and moved exclusively online.

From the Journal Times:

"It just got to be too expensive," Kirst said.

The Ranger News' decision isn't typical among college papers, Logan Aimone, executive director of the Associated Collegiate Press in Minneapolis.

...

"I've only heard of maybe two or three campuses that have done that, and in every case it's because of budget," Aimone said.

Kirst told the Journal Times that she misses "being covered in ink" and "smelling like newspaper." Now the task for the paper is to re-direct its readers to its new Web site The Ranger News.com.

Though Kirst and her staff  had an unenviable decision to make, freed money and time resources could allow the paper to reinvent itself in a big way, perhaps setting an example for other college papers who follow suit.

"Hopefully by the end of the semester we'll be completely marketed on campus," she said.

So what do you think about the The Ranger News' online transformation? And how can it successfully market itself to move its readers online?

Wave - e-mail for the 21st century, or something

As part of my duty as the self-appointed new software guinea pig for college media, I was able to finagle an invitation to Google Wave from Andrew Spittle, one of the CoPress team (@andrewspittle on Twitter) and check out this "revolutionary" tool. There were a couple of sessions at the National College Media Convention about Wave, but I was presenting during those times, so I missed them.

Anyway, I've been using Wave for about half a day now, and I'm a little underwhelmed. For a good overview of some of the potential of Wave, this ReadWriteWeb review is a pretty good introduction. I won't go into all the boring details, except to say that it takes some getting used to, and I'm not exactly collaborating on anything right now, so most of the uses are lost on me at the moment.

I can, however, see potential for the software as a collaboration tool on stories and projects. I've been a big proponent of using Google Docs to share documents between writers and editors, and this seems to take that to another level.

But at the moment, the nomenclature (Robots, Extensions and Gadgets) is confusing, and figuring out how to get those Robots and Gadgets to work in a Wave is frustrating.

Wave doesn't easily interact with other services like Twitter or even gmail or Google Reader (at least that I could figure out so far - I'll be messing with this program for a few days, at least, so I'll update if it becomes easier or I bump my head and get enlightened). If Wave were a place where I could see my traditional e-mail and Google Reader items, along with the real-time collaboration tools, I could see it as a perfect landing spot. Perhaps that's the eventual goal, and I'm sure there are probably tools that will add those features. But it's still early in the development.

I guess I'm so used to the ease-of-use of gmail and the reader that I forgot how confusing a new paradigm could be (although I remember Orkut, another Google product that was difficult to understand and use when it first came out).

My advice for college journalists is to try to get some invites and experiment with Wave as a newsroom collaboration tool. But be prepared to spend at least a couple of hours poking around to figure it out.