Madden Media

Madden Media Internships

Editorial Department

The Madden Media Tucson and Phoenix editorial departments normally hire 1-2 student interns for the spring, summer, and fall semesters. Interns are expected to work a minimum of ten hours each week. While this is an unpaid position, we are happy to help arrange for college credit. Occasionally we take on interns who have already graduated but are interested in gaining work experience and learning about the publishing industry.

Interns are exposed to many facets of the publishing industry, such as fact checking, copyediting, and formatting copy using QuarkXpress. Interns also attend in-house meetings, write sidebars and listings, and meet with people from the production, design, and sales departments. To read a detailed description of editorial intern duties, please see the following checklist, which we use during the course of the internship to chart progress. If you are interested, please email your resume and cover letter to:

(Tucson internships only) - Carrie Bui.
For more information call 520-322-0895.

(Phoenix internships only) - Jessica Dunham.
For more information call 480-946-4499.

Editorial Department Internship Program Checklist :

• Intro to Madden Media--who we are, what we publish, office tour, schedule, fill out emergency info form, discuss arranging credit with English office
• Learn about long-distance codes and voice mail
• Review our publications, Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook, our various in-house style sheets, proofreaders' marks; become familiar with our indexes, resources files, and 101 and North Country Things to Do lists
• Introduction to computer network
• Observation of editors: using Quark on various tasks, such as flowing writer's copy into template, inputting corrections, making global changes, formatting, etc. May also include looking board proof and color proof
• Practice using Quark by flowing in feature stories and assigning appropriate style sheets and face-its
• Meet with a designer from the art dept., a person from the traffic dept., and a person from the sales dept. to develop an understanding of other depts.
• Contribute story and 101 ideas; editors to share what stories are chosen and why. Learn about creating editorial overviews. Write new 101 listings
• Develop proficiency in verification/fact checking using the telephone and the web
• Mid-semester discussion--intern feedback on progress, their goals, questions
• Help keep indexes and 101 alpha lists up-to-date; create folders for new issues of pubs
• Obtain set of rough copy in-house for either TGQ or VGQ and read it for a sense of how copy comes to us and to be aware of current projects in editorial
• Copy edit rough copy of feature story follow through by reviewing Madden editor's copy edit, reviewing suggestions made by proofers, and reviewing which corrections were made by Madden editors
• Help with mail, photocopying, faxing, and filing as needed
• Help format listings for Phoenix and Tucson bureaus using Quark--apply style sheets, face-its, learn to navigate, link, and add pages to documents
• May attend editorial department meetings and post-mortems, if schedule permits--should be prepared with pertinent copy read, if applicable
• Other activities:
  • review completed files to see edited, marked-up versions of stories
  • list story ideas for Tucson Guide and Valley Guide
  • list some 101 ideas for Tucson Guide and Vally Guide; write 101s if possible
  • Contribute heads and decks. May attend a head and deck meeting with editors and art director. Discuss why we chose what we did
  • Fill out our feedback form