Please have them send me a resume: vikram.gandhi@vice.com
Looking to hire ASAP.
Thanks!
Vikram
Request for Proposals: Print Designer Posted May 27, 2014
The San Francisco Public Press is a nonprofit, noncommercial news organization that provides unbiased, in–depth and investigative reporting to readers in the San Francisco Bay Area, online and in a quarterly print edition. The Public Press is based on the public broadcasting model, relying on foundation grants, memberships and newspaper sales.
Scope and Guidelines:
The print designer will provide professional design management and layout of the newspaper, in order to promote the organization’s journalistic mission and maintain high quality production standards. The print edition is the Public Press’s showcase product, an advertising–free broadsheet publication that emphasizes insightful journalism and takes risks on bold design concepts. It regularly breaks ground with collaborative data–driven investigative reporting, and collaborates with dozens of other nonprofits, including KQED, KALW and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The organization values experimentation with creative graphics, photography, typography and illustration. For examples visit http://sfpublicpress.org.
This is a contract position with occasional deadlines on small assignments and major print deadlines four times a year.
Print edition responsibilities:
Designing the newsprint edition four times a year.
Producing news infographics in collaboration with the reporting teams.
Providing editorial feedback based on design principles.
Creating, maintaining and documenting in–house style guidelines.
Commissioning illustrations by contract artists.
Working with the photo editor to improve images.
Archiving collateral for Web distribution and future projects.
Maintaining the highest standards of journalism ethics and accuracy.
Requirements:
Three years of professional experience in editorially focused graphic design.
Knowledge of journalism ethics, Associated Press style, photo editing principles,
typography, art direction, design theory for print and Web journalism and
nonprofit operations.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent tools.
Ability to produced high–end creative and compelling infographics and maps on
multiple platforms preferred.
Familiarity with Drupal, CSS, HTML, PHP and Javascript preferred.
Strong organizational skills and sense of professionalism, including the ability to communicate clearly about assignments and meet deadlines.
Strong oral and written communication skills. Please submit:
An overview of relevant experience, including corporate and freelance work
A description of a project you have participated in that shows initiative and
professional–quality work
A summary of any experiences working with news organizations or online
publications
A portfolio of your editorial design work (online or in PDF format)
A one–page résumé
Names and contact information for at least three references
Fee expectations — hourly or project–based
Timeline:
RFP dated May 27, 2014
DEADLINE: Send proposals no later than Friday, June 6, 2014, to: Michael Stoll, Executive Director and Editor
Email design {at} sfpublicpress [dot] org, using the subject line “Print Design RFP.”
Mailed submissions may also be sent to: San Francisco Public Press, 44 Page St., Suite 504, San Francisco, CA 94102
It is the responsibility of the presenter of the submission to ensure that it has arrived to the San Francisco Public Press by the date specified. The San Francisco Public Press is not responsible for lost or misdirected proposals and reserves the right to not hire any respondents or to re–release the RFP. Download a copy of the RFP here [PDF].
If you have a question, please contact us at the email address above, or call (415) 495–7377.
It's important for folks to know that this is a part of the AmeriCorps government service program, and pays a taxable living allowance of $14,644/year, a relocation allowance (TBD), a $5,645 educational award, a $900 MBTA LinkPass (bus & subway), a Health Benefits Plan, child care, and professional development opportunities.
If you know anyone who may have interest in doing a year of service, getting experience working in community radio, and who enjoys working with youth, please share the following link to the job description and let them know the application deadline is this Friday May 30th.
Here's the link: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/JK2nFNdk8zMD/
The Athens Cultural Center and WGXC 90.7-FM announces an exciting participatory workshop, Audio Portraits: An Introduction to Interviewing, for ages 14-adult. In this workshop participants will produce a short audio portrait of the working life of an Athen's resident to be included in the Wage/Working Jukebox which will be on exhibit at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street from May 31-Dec. 1, 2014.
Wage/Working is a jukebox-based installation featuring stories and sounds from the working lives of residents of Greene and Columbia counties. The stories are edited to a length, corresponding with the amount of time it takes each interviewee to earn $1, creating an inverse relationship between monetary value and time. The project, which was first exhibited at the Cairo Public Library, was created by Tennessee Watson & Laura Hadden as a part of an AIR Live Interactive Residency during the Spring of 2013 at free103point9 Wave Farm, and WGXC 90.7-FM in Acra, NY, with financial support provided, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
In this two-session workshop participants will learn the basics of documentary interviewing technique, digital audio field recording, story scripting and digital editing through guided tutorials and hands-on exercises; and with facilitator support will assemble a short audio portrait.
Session 1 will take place Wednesday May 28th 6 – 9 pm and Session 2 will be on Friday, May 30th, 6 – 9 pm. Please note that participants must attend both sessions. Participants will also be required to do work outside of class prior to Session 2, which involves interviewing a community member about their work, reviewing the recording and creating a brief outline. These workshops, co-sponsored by WGXC, 90.7-FM, will take place at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens, and are offered free of charge but pre-registration is necessary. Register on-line at info@athensculturalcenter.org or by calling 518-945-2136.
On Saturday May 31, from 5-7 PM, there will be an Opening Reception of the Wage/Working Jukebox at the Cultural Center featuring a listening session and celebration of pieces produced in the Audio Portraits workshop.
About Laura Hadden and Tennessee Watson:
Hadden and Watson were cited in 2011 by the International Documentary Challenge in the Best Film and Best Directing categories for a previous joint project, Matthew 24:14. The collaborators have a diverse history working in documentary film and radio. Laura Hadden is an independent media producer who spent the last three years producing projects for the storytelling organization The Moth in New York City. Before that, she facilitated workshops at The Center for Digital Storytelling and was an apprentice and community media producer at KPFA in Berkeley, CA. Tennessee Watson is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work draws from the documentary and oral history tradition, but with an interactive and performative twist. Prior to moving to NY, she spent four years at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University producing radio documentaries, instructing courses and coordinating Youth Noise Network, a radio project for teens in Durham, North Carolina.
Already have audio production skills and you'd like to submit a story to the jukebox?
Community members, who don't take the workshop, are also invited to submit Wage/Working stories from Greene or Columbia county as long as they follow the project format. To have your work considered for inclusion in theWage/Working jukebox, please contact wageworking@gmail.com for more information.
Workshop sessions: May 28 and 30th, 6-9PM
Opening reception: May 31st, 5-7PM
Registration Register on-line at info@athensculturalcenter.org or by calling 518-945-2136.
+++++++++++++++
1. The Waiting Show
Stories about… wait for it… waiting.
2. The Shouldn't Have Pressed Send Show
Stories about emails and texts gone awry.
3. The Transport Show
Stories that take place in planes, trains, busses, cars, submarines(?) etc…
4. The Dinner Table Show
What we talk about when we sit down together to eat.
More about Re:sound, here:
thirdcoastfestival.org/broadcasts/re-sound
As always, send us a link to your work – and/or any questions – to resound [at] thirdcoastfestival [dot] org.
Can't wait to listen.
Yrs,
TCF
To be considered for this internship, you should have a strong creative background, solid writing skills and be able to take direction. Self-starters who value attention to detail have particularly enjoyed interning with us. Audio and video editing skills are a big plus. Our staff works remotely, and you can too; people anywhere in the U.S. can apply. This internship is unpaid, and we generally ask for about 10 hours a week, sometimes more during busy weeks.
Internships for our fall 2014 season will run from June 1, 2014, until September 30, 2014.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until May 27, 2014.
To apply, send your resume and cover letter to: internships(at)stateofthereunion(dot)com
"The Eventbrite registration page has been closed after 80 sign-ups. But, there’s space for walk-ins and allcomers. We don’t want to turn anyone away! Email info@asocialpractice.com to extend your interest. Thanks."
Photo-Based Social Practice
http://www.aperture.org/event/photo-based-social-practice-open-engagement/
Friday, May 16
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore547 West 27th StreetNew York, NY
FREE WITH REGISTRATION
A discussion of socially engaged, transdisciplinary, and expanded practices in contemporary photography.
This panel, part of the 2014 Open Engagement conference, is offered in conjunction with the Spring issue ofAperture magazine, produced in collaboration with guest editor Susan Meiselas and the Magnum Foundation, which explores how the ground for socially engaged documentary storytelling has radically shifted over the last decade and how photographers might adapt. The panel is copresented by Aperture Foundation and Magnum Foundation’s Photography, Expanded initiative. Moderated by Eliza Gregory, panelists include: Pete Brook, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Mark Strandquist, and Wendy Ewald. Preregistration is required. Register HERE.
About the Conference:
Open Engagement is an international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice, and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art-making. This year, the conference addresses the theme of Life/Work.
It will include two days of programming (Saturday, May 17–Sunday, May 18) at the Queens Museum, with pre-conference events on Friday at different locations around the city. These Friday events are meant to highlight groups, organizations, and institutions in the New York area that are supporting socially engaged art.
For more information, visit openengagement.info