Media General Announces Multimedia Fellowships
Richmond, Va. – Media General, Inc. will offer four post-graduate fellowships in its converged markets. The program will give college graduates the opportunity to develop the skills required in today’s transforming newsrooms while working for nine months as multimedia journalists.
Graduates selected for the program will work in markets where Media General owns a television station, a newspaper and a Web site. They will spend time at each property in the market to obtain a wide range of experience and will primarily produce content that will be presented on more than one platform.
The markets to which fellows will be assigned in 2008 include:
* Bristol, Va. – Johnson City, Tenn.: Bristol Herald Courier,
WJHL-TV and www.tricities.com <http://www.tricities.com/> .
* Florence – Myrtle Beach, S.C.: (Florence) Morning News,
WBTW-TV and affiliated Web sites.
* Lynchburg – Roanoke – Danville, Va.: The (Lynchburg) News &
Advance, the Danville Register & Bee, WSLS-TV and affiliated Web sites.
* Opelika / Auburn, Ala. – Columbus, Ga.: Opelika-Auburn News,
WRBL-TV and affiliated Web sites.
The fellowships are open to recipients of bachelor’s or master’s degrees within the past 12 months. Application deadline for the 2008 fellowship is March 1, 2008. For details, click here
http://www.mediageneral.com/careers/internships/fellowship_details_2008
_clickhere.pdf or visit www.mediageneral.com/careers.
About Media General:
Media General is a multimedia company operating leading newspapers, television stations and online enterprises primarily in the Southeastern United States. The company’s publishing assets include three metropolitan newspapers, The Tampa Tribune, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Winston-Salem Journal; 22 daily community newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina; and more than 150 weekly newspapers and other publications. The company’s broadcasting assets include 23 network-affiliated television stations that reach more than
32 percent of the television households in the Southeast and nearly 9.5 percent of those in the United States. The company’s interactive media assets include more than 75 online enterprises that are associated with its newspapers and television stations. Media General also owns a 33 percent interest in SP Newsprint Company, a manufacturer of recycled newsprint.
Contact:
Pam Nicholson
(804) 649-6295