Job Siren: L.A. Times

Are you a "high-potential, highly motivated aspiring journalist with diverse background or life experience"???

This is a big-deal job. Two years of intense training at The Los Angeles Times. All of the newspaper’s summer internship programs closed their applications February 1. This one, you have until February 15 to apply.

Tasty details: “Trainees are represented by the Los Angeles Times Guild and receive an annual salary of about $50,000 with incremental raises. They also qualify for benefits, including vacation, sick pay, health insurance and a 401(k) plan.”

Get on this!!!

METPRO

Metpro is a unique program started in 1984 to help beginning journalists launch careers and boost diversity in newsrooms.

The Los Angeles Times is seeking high-potential, highly motivated aspiring journalists with diverse backgrounds or life experiences. The program’s main thrust is to provide participants – recent college graduates or journalists with limited professional experience – the training and support necessary to put them on a fast track to success.

Metpro is not an internship but a formal fellowship customized to help trainees realize their goals. The paid, full-time program lasts up to two years and is included in the Los Angeles Times Guild. We accept applications from those eligible to work in the U.S. with up to three years of experience in a professional newsroom or up to five years in media settings such as weeklies and community newsrooms, websites, fellowships or freelance work.

The application deadline for the 2021 class is Feb. 15, 2021.

Details can be found at https://metpronews.submittable.com/ or www.metpronews.com.