For you youngsters 🙂

ENTER TODAY   Final Week to Enter. This year’s 30 Below is open to all young poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, photographers, graphic artists, filmmakers, and performers between eighteen and thirty years old. • $1,500 First Prize • $750 Second Prize • $300 Third Prize • Ten finalists receive $100 each. See the Guidelines. Read prior winners. All entries will be considered for publication. We're looking for poems, short stories, short shorts, essays, memoirs, photo essays, audio and video stories, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Once each year we call especially on young writers and artists, and we hope to share your best work with our audience of more than 140,000 readers. We are committed to paying our authors, to providing excellent editorial support, and to encouraging a wide audience for good writing.     And It’s Free.       iSTORIES | iPOEMS | RSS | NARRATIVE BACKSTAGE | A Nonprofit Publication

Marketplace in Los Angeles has this part-time PAID internship. I bet they take your freelance pitches when you're done! Application deadline Dec 3. Details and links below. -Mia

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL JOB POSTING

Date: October 24, 2012

Award-winning Marketplace is public radio's daily magazine of business and economics. Airing weekday mornings and evenings, it boasts the largest audience for any business program in the U.S. on radio, cable, or network television. To check out information about the program, go to: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/.

Marketplace has an excellent internship opportunity for students and recent grads who have an active interest in journalism. Marketplace Interns will be compensated on an hourly basis ($10/hr). This is a minimum 15 hour a week internship and will work through the 2013 spring semester (January through May).

Internal and External Applicants:
For a complete job description and to apply online, please follow this link:
http://americanpublicmedia.iapplicants.com/ViewJob-366913.html

Company: American Public Media
Job Title: Intern, Marketplace
Job #: 508-13

American Public Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage candidates with a diversity of life experiences to apply.

Enrich your mind. Build your community. Expand your career.

www.americanpublicmedia.org/careers
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www.facebook.com/apmcareers

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We’re just ramping up our coverage ahead of the US elections and there

are a couple of things we’d like to do but which I so far haven’t
found freelancers for:

1.I’m looking to commission someone in Vegas to do a package for us
about the prolific number of campaign TV ads there

2.We’re looking for someone who can do a package for us looking behind
the scenes at the key figures in Romney’s proposed administration

3.We’re also looking two commission three or four very short reports
from places which have interesting / quirky other things on their
ballots – I’m looking for suggestions from across the US

Fee for rough cut package: Ł250. Short report fee will vary depending
on what we agree to commission.

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Are any of you FC folks in Africa? Or have appropriate tape lying around from a past trip? America Abroad Media has been doing some great work: http://americaabroadmedia.org/

Create a mashup, win an ipad. More fun from the Free Music Archive. Details below! -mia

Video Mashup Contest With Prelinger Archives Have you ever thought music from the Free Music Archive would pair nicely with all that great retro video ephemera in the Prelinger Archives? Here's your chance to show your vision in a contest we're calling "The Past Re-imagined As The Future." Enter before Nov. 4th and help us explore the possibilities of open digital archives. Visit our contest portal for a fun how-to video, information about our winners screening at Anthology, pictures of our dashing panel of judges, and questions that are frequently asked. Two winners will receive an iThing! Plus, there's always the added prize that if you spend enough hours watching old timey videos, you just might find your 20's doppelganger.  — Andrea   Actual Reality By Lucky Dragons Named Wired Magazine’s “Most Wired Musician,” Lucky Dragons uses a Google search for the phrase "Actual Reality" to create a candid and democratic view of the Internet. [link] Music for Video: Autumn Mix We have a fresh bushel of Royalty-Free songs up now on our Music for Video portal. These are all instrumental tracks that are perfect for your projects, including everything from dark dubstep to energetic electronic. [link] Brewster Kahle on Radio Free Culture Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of The Internet Archive, was our guest on Radio Free Culture. He was interviewed by Ken Freedman, WFMU's station manager. [link] More Highlights New post-punk industrial groove experiments from Moscow's Asian Women on the Telephone. [link]   The solo debut from Blake Fleming (Laddio Bolocko, Dazzling Killmen, Mars Volta) is 100% percussion, and catchy as all get out! [link] Subterrâneo Records is a new label from Salvador, Bahia. Você Pensa Sub is a six-track introductory comp ranging from irresistible Bahia-pop grooves to hip-hop and new takes on traditional Brazilian song structures. [link]   Welcome our new curator, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, offering duo improvisations from by Mikael Jorgensen (of Wilco fame) and Travis Thatcher. [link] The Ontario Independent Music Archive will collect and preserve new and older independent music from Ontario, including releases that were only issued in limited runs on cassette and vinyl. [link]           DIG DEEPER   Most Interesting   Recently Added   Search  Browse By Curator   Featured Articles   BROWSE BY GENRE   ON TOPIC   YouTube/Google Make Their "Presumed Guilty" ContentID Takedown Policy Slightly Less Kafkaesque   Soundcloud Partners with Getty Images to Offer 1-Button Film Music Licensing (Getty Keeps 65% of Revenue)   Do Bad Things Happen When Creative Works Enter the Public Domain? Nope.

Grants for creative media from In the Dark. Sweet! -Mia

Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Patrons of Sound Bank 3: Jane Ray Plus income from "Friends of In The Dark"   The Third Sound Bank is Open To Submissions! In The Dark is very pleased to announce the launch of the third Sound Bank Grant Scheme, an international fund for adventurous audio. The Sound Bank scheme is offering funding of between £500 and £1500 towards the production of new audio pieces of 3 to 15 minutes duration each. The fund is open to first-time producers and students, migrants from other arts and media as well as experienced radio professionals seeking the opportunity to attempt something bold and adventurous. To read more and to find out how to submit a proposal, click here >> To hear the work of previous grant winners, click here >>   We look forward to supporting some more great audio!  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 In The Dark, All rights reserved. .

Hey folks. I'm participating in a panel discussion on Monday 10/22 about the future of podcasting. Planet Money's Adam Davidson will be there, and you'll have a chance to pitch your podcast ideas and get feedback. Details are here: http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/pimp-your-podcast-the-secrets-of-great-audio-projects/. Hope you can make it! -Mia

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With the tremendous success of Freakonomics, WTF with Marc Maron, the Slate Gabfests, and more, podcasting has come into its own in the past five years. But where is it heading? How will fans hear the shows and stories they love in the next decade?

Come join us for a panel on the state of podcasting: We’ll discuss the two-way street between online audio and broadcast radio and how to sell a podcast idea to a funder or news organization. We’ll also take a peek into the crystal ball.

Bring your questions and ideas for great podcasts, and we’ll provide riveting conversation.

Space is limited, so sign up early. Register in advance

Free for CUNY J-School students and alumni. (Check your class or alumni Facebook page for the promotional code you need to register.)
$5 + $1.27 online registration fee for everyone else: Register in advance

Panelists:

Amanda Aronczyk (moderator) has been a public radio reporter and online producer for almost 15 years, working at WNYC’s Radio Lab, APM’s Marketplace, and PRI’s The Next Big Thing. As a freelancer, she has produced podcasts for the The New Yorker and Slate, and produced radio for a variety of programs, including Studio 360, Freakonomics, and Marketplace. She is currently producing a half hour documentary on crime and debt for the BBC.

Jim Colgan plays a senior role on the content team at SoundCloud, where he helps news organizations, producers, and anyone else interested in creating spoken word audio on the social sound platform. Before that, he was head of media at Mobile Commons and for 10 years, he was a producer and digital editor at WNYC Radio in New York.

Adam Davidson is co-founder and co-host of Planet Money, a co-production of NPR and This American Life. He also writes the weekly “It’s the Economy” column for The New York Times Magazine. His work has won several major awards including the Peabody, DuPont-Columbia, and the Polk. His radio documentary on the housing crisis, “The Giant Pool of Money,” which he co-reported and produced with Alex Blumberg, was named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade by the Arthur L. Carter of Journalism Institute at New York University. In two weekly podcasts, a blog, and regular features on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and This American Life, Planet Money helps listeners understand how dramatic economic change is impacting their lives. Planet Money also proves, every day, that substantive, intelligent economic reporting can be funny, engaging, and accessible to the non-expert.

Mia Lobel is the co-founder and senior producer of several podcasts including B-Side Radio and Distillations, an award-winning chemistry podcast for the non-for-profit Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. She has freelanced for media outlets across the country including KQED, The Tavis Smiley Show, Youth Radio, Antenna Audio, and Pulse of the Planet. She’s also the founder of Freelance Café, a support, networking, and resource web site for Bay Area and Hudson Valley independents.

Ashley Milne-Tyte is a New York-based writer and reporter. Ashley produces radio pieces for Marketplace, NPR, and Voice of America, writes for print/online, and teaches radio journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Ashley recently completed a fellowship at the CUNY/Tow Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism where she launched a podcast about women and work, called The Broad Experience.

For you Boston area folks – part-time work (with benefits!) to supplement your freelance career. Details below. -Mia

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