SF Indie Fashion is looking for media-savvy, style-hungry fashion journalism interns!!
If you love San Francisco, fashion, up-and-coming designers and online media – and preferably all of them at the same time – you might be just they’re we’re looking for. The SF Indie Fashion team is on the hunt for one or two amazing interns who want to dive into the local fashion scene, conduct interviews and cover events, take photographs and hone their journalism skills all while supporting a site devoted to the local, independent fashion community.
Ideally, you will:
- Have previous journalism and writing experience
- Be comfortable reporting on events and conducting in-person, phone and email interviews in a professional, timely manner
- Possess the time and ability to turn around a minimum of two or more assignments per week. Must be able to do this reliably.
- Live in San Francisco and able to attend local fashion events each week, usually in the evenings (being 21+ is a big help with this)
- Offer additional media skills, including previous video, photography, graphic design and/or social media and experience
- Have experience with or interest in learning wordpress or another blogging content management system
- Come to us with an interest in the role of small, local businesses and independent designers to the larger San Francisco fashion community
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Why you’d want to intern for SF Indie Fashion:
- Hands-on experience reporting, writing and covering fashion events
- The chance to work with a local fashion writer/editor who will help you improve and hone your writing, editing and media skills
- A great deal of freedom to be creative
- Media access to designers’ studios, local fashion and shopping events, shows, sample sales, etc.
- The chance to network with key players in the San Francisco fashion industry
- The opportunity to develop a portfolio of clips and media samples you can use in the future
- A chance to immerse yourself in the local fashion scene
- The opportunity to improve blogging and social media skills
- Past interns have gone on to internships at publications such as 7×7, Refinery29, Footwear News and have had their work featured in media outlets such as 7×7.com and the San Francisco Chronicle.
The ideal intern will be able to attend fashion events and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and turn them into interesting, well-written, insightful features for SF Indie Fashion. Journalism and writing instruction will be offered to intern during the course of the internship, but basic writing and journalism skills – not to mention decent grammar – are required.
Note: We may also be looking specifically for a video or photography intern. If that’s your skill set, please feel free to be in touch.
To apply, please send a resume, a work sample and an email outlining your interest in the internship to lsanders@sfindiefashion.com.
Lorraine Sanders, the creator of SF Indie Fashion, is also an instructor at the School of Fashion. She teaches fashion blogging, and you can check out her Instruct/Influence profile here!
