Korea JoongAng Daily internship
The Foundation's Asia Media Centre is offering a journalism internship at the JoongAng Daily newspaper in the South Korean capital, Seoul. Media internships are offered through the Foundation's Asia Media Centre - set up by to help improve the breadth and depth of coverage of Asia issues in the New Zealand media. Internships provide New Zealand journalism students and recent graduates with experience working at a media organisation in Asia in order to gain a better understanding of the people, places and culture of the host country.
The Korea JoongAng Daily is the English-language arm of JoongAng Group, a huge Korean media conglomerate spanning print, digital and broadcast. It also publishes the JoongAng Ilbo and JoongAng Sunday.
The Korea JoongAng Daily operates a bilingual newsroom with four desks — national, business, culture and sports — led by expert desk chiefs and a separate team of native speaking English-language editors recruited from some of the top media organisations in the world.
The paper has been in association with the New York Times since 2000 and co-publishes the print editions of the two newspapers together. Subscribers in Korea receive the Korea JoongAng Daily, and the International New York Times.
Applications close 5pm, 13 October
