HuffPo Internship Opportunities

parismountain:

Michelle Goldberg writes about an internship at the Huffington Post that’s being auctioned off for charity.

“I’m still not convinced that this isn’t some kind of brilliant joke about the way Huffpo has devalued the work of writers,” she says, and then continues:

“To be fair, the auction is for charity — proceeds go to the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Still, it’s pretty unseemly. Not only is Huffington asking people to pay for the privilege of being a lackey, all in the hope of entering into a field whose wages she’s helping to drive down by her reliance on free content. Not only is she mocking any pretense of meritocracy. She’s also reifying the class barriers that already keep so many out of the media world – barriers that the Web was supposed to help undermine. It’s bad enough that the media job market privileges those with the funds to support themselves through unpaid internships, and the connections to get those internships in the first place. Now here’s the person in charge of one of our premier liberal Web sites actually monetizing the price of access.”