Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Student Publications

- This list will be periodically updated as more openings become available. -
Updated 9:30 p.m. EST, Aug. 26, 2008
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The Big Green

Openings: News, Photo, Design, Copy Duration: 2008-09 school year

To Qualify: All majors are welcome, and varied interests are appreciated.

How to apply: E-mail Katie Sulau with the position you are interested in and a writing sample.

Contact: Katie Sulau

Other: We are an online magazine that provides an independent, alternative voice for MSU students and covers local and global issues in a comprehensive, thoughtful, and progressive manner.

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EJ Magazine

Openings: Writers, Photographers and designers Duration: 2008-09 school year

To Qualify: All years and majors are welcome.

Contact: Andrew Norman

Other: This is the only magazine of its kind in the nation – and it’s been awarded as one of the top three student magazines in the country by the Society of Professional Journalists, among other awards.

EJ info/brainstorming session: Thursday, Aug. 28 at 5 p.m. in CAS 382

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Red Cedar Log

Openings: Intern photographers/writers, staff photographers/writers, assistant photo editor, designer

Duration: 2008-09 school year

To Qualify: All years and majors are welcome. Freshmen strongly encouraged to apply.

Contact: Matt Mikus or Lisa Ermak, (517) 355-4610

Other: The Red Cedar Log is a publication in which one can further develop his or her journalistic skills while getting hands-on expereince with deadlines, meetings. interviews and photography shoots. RCL offers a professional journalistic environment with a flexible work load.

Deadline: ASAP.

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SpartanEdge

Openings: Writers, photographers, videographers, bloggers and graphics journalists.

Duration: 2008-09 school year

To Qualify: We'll work with you even if you haven't written anything before, but we do

require a basic knowledge of AP style and quality writing.

To Apply: E-mail three examples of your writing, preferably something journalism-related (published work, class work, English work, something saved from High school, etc).

Contact: Amanda Peterka, Managing Editor

Jessica Lipowski, Editor in Chief

Other: Spartan Edge is a weekly online publication focusing on campus issues in an "edgy" way. Our aim is to rectify the truth of controversy and give readers at MSU an alternative source for campus news. We began as an experiment to see where the Internet can take media, and we focus a lot on multimedia – photos, video and audio – to bring the news alive.

Meetings: Every other week on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. in the East Shaw Lobby, beginning Sept. 2

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