A national issues column writers group, headed by a senior Clinton administration Public Affairs Director and former congressional communications director for congressional leaders is looking for quality volunteer interns (with onsite meals, some expenses covered and bonuses described below) to write bylined op-eds for major media on progressive national issues and organize news conferences. We work with White House offices, leaders of Congress, consumer groups, world sports agencies, health care rights supporters, efficient military systems advocates, drug policy/criminal justice experts, progressive political organizations, and others.

One key aspect is that you will research, write, and co-byline op-ed columns (opinion pieces) in major national newspapers--we've done more than 1,000: www.weinerpublic.com/opeds

We won the National Press Club President's Award for our op-ed program enlisting young journalists as bylined co-writers in major papers and the NPC Vivien Award for organizing Newsmaker VIP news conferences with leaders of both parties on many issues. You will be part of it all.

You will work at least three days a week, and will meet at the National Press Club -- the world's leading organization for journalists-- with breakfast and lunch buffets covered each day you are there for the internship. You will enjoy the collegiality of working in the journalists area room with 5 TVs of all the networks showing the news as it happens. We are two blocks from the White House and a mile from the Capitol/Congress. You'll often see on TV what's on the streets and in those buildings that you and others in our space cover. We sometimes modify our opeds on the spot as the news happens.

If you have written for college, high school, or mainstream papers, radio-TV, or blogs, and have experience with deadlines and word efficiency, you may have what we need -- and what will make your internship productive, published, and fun.

Weiner Public News Company President Bob Weiner served in the Clinton White House as a Director of Public Affairs. He has worked for Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Congressmen John Conyers (D-MI), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Claude Pepper (D-FL), Ed Koch (D-NY), and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). Bob believes in the energy and genius of youth and opposes age discrimination at either side. His first Washington position was as National Youth Vote Director for the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate during the famed break-in, where Bob's organization set the all-time youth vote turnout record. He has known Joe Biden since then, when he organized a Delaware youth vote forum for him and was invited after to Joe's house. He was later Chief of Staff of the House Aging Committee, brought Colonel Sanders in as a witness, and is credited with leading landmark legislation to abolish mandatory retirement. Bob directed the Daily Press Briefing Room for the last three onsite Democratic National Conventions (2016, 2012 and 2008), and brought an organizing team of college and young interns with him.

We have had recent op-eds published in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Newsweek, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, San Diego Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Palm Beach Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Des Moines Register, Denver Post, Tallahassee Democrat, Springfield Republican, New York Post, The New York Daily News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Austin American-Statesman, New Jersey Star-Ledger, Michigan Chronicle and many others of the nation's top 100 papers, plus leading blogs like OpEd News and LaborPress. Oped News has regularly ranked our opeds H1, H2, or H3, meaning the top op-eds in the nation the day they came out, and Newsweek called two of our comment submissions "Best" twice this year. Congressional and national leaders have said our articles have impact.

Compensation: This internship offers College/University credit, plus paid bonuses per op-ed, National Press Club intern membership we cover, and breakfast and lunches included at the National Press Club work days.

We believe this is one of the best internships in the nation because of its uniqueness in getting you bylined in major media, and your organizing. Interns can start on or after May 21, 2024.

Check out our opeds website link: www.weinerpublic.com/opeds for Bob's (and models of your future) opeds, including most co-authored with bylined interns as you will be; see broader link: www.weinerpublic.com

***Together with your resume, please provide a cover letter and two or three 500-800 word writing samples to show you can write sharp and to-the-point yet substantial opinion pieces. (If available, your pieces from college, high school, or community papers, or scripts you wrote for college or community radio-TV, are welcome as work products. Otherwise, anything that shows you can write opeds.)

Send to weinerpublic@comcast.net and charlyncjf@gmail.com
Candidates will be contacted AFTER email is received

Pay: From $10.00 per day plus $100 per article and bonuses

Benefits:

Flexible schedule
National Press Club membership, meals, and events during internship

Job Types: Part-time, Internship

Pay: From $10.00 per day

Education:

High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

Writing Skills: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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