About the program
The Inside Orato: Writer’s Workshop and Internship Program constitutes a semester-long internship, with start dates in the spring and fall semesters. Each internship runs for approximately 12 weeks. Students are selected from collegiate journalism programs around the world by Orato’s publisher, CEO, editorial, and marketing teams. Working journalists may also be enrolled in the program. This is a fully remote internship that utilizes a digital work environment.
What an Intern can expect
The Inside Orato: Writer’s Workshop and Internship Program is a 12-week, global internship experience where journalism students and working professionals earn 100+ internship hours while gaining bylines for internationally published stories. Orato World Media presents true stories about real people written and verified by journalists. Having been embraced by faculty and journalism schools around the world to teach first-person journalism, we stand at the forefront of training in this novel skill.
Workshop Format
We begin the internship in a workshop format, delivered through a series of screencast videos accessible in any time zone or geographic region. Interns will attend sessions such as About Orato & the five critical elements of a first-person news story; Identifying a topic and finding a subject; The importance of verification, background, and subject information; Making your pitch; Conducting an Orato-style interview; Writing the story; and finally, Submitting and the editorial process.
One-on-One Coaching
Throughout the workshop portion of the internship, participants will receive one-on-one coaching and conversation sessions with the Publisher, CEO, and Managing Editor. They will engage in our virtual office environment (Slack) on a regular basis. Here they will engage our team as well as journalists, photographers, and videographers globally. Before working on stories that will be published at Orato, interns will practice what they learned by interviewing one another and writing a test story in the Orato style. They will be supported every step of the way.
Next, interns move into story production. They will begin pitching stories through our real-time story production process with a minimum goal of writing and publishing 2-3 stories and an ideal goal of publishing 3-5 stories. Interns are paid for their published pieces and receive support from the editorial team throughout. After the internship, they have the option to remain a vetted journalist and can pitch and write for Orato at their leisure. All interns will be exposed to a successful, global, digital news outlet with expansive audience around the world.
Contact pamela.say@orato.world if interested.
