Very excited to announce the @IBWellsSociety is sponsoring several investigative reporting internships this summer targeted towards HBCU students and students from other under-represented groups. The first amazing opportunity is to intern on the investigations desk @nytimes !
To apply, you must be a member of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting (@IBWellsSociety) and you must be interested in pursuing journalism as a career. It is rare that newspaper interns get attached to investigations desks, but ours are specifically investigative.
We are specifically targeting students who normally would not get an opportunity such as this @nytimes, so please do not count yourself out. With that said, you must bring your A-game because we expect a lot of applicants for a small numbers of slots.
Please have an adviser or mentor look over your applications before applying to check for typos on resumes, cover letter writing and to ensure your clips are reflective or your best writing and reporting talents. If you don't have someone to do that, DM @nixonron or myself.
In addition to interning on investigative teams, the @IBWellsSociety interns will get weekly seminars from industry leaders in various investigative techniques, such as public records, backgrounding, interviewing, pitching and managing stories, media law.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens
Even as this country was recruiting Chinese men to come do the labor white workers would not, they barred Chinese women from entering the U.S. in order to ensure the men would not settle and start families in America.
Then this nation passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to prohibit Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. altogether. This nation's most egregious racist laws and racist Supreme Court rulings targeted Black and Chinese people because of the believe both were unassimilable.