Progressive Daily News Journal

This organization was created as an alliance between journalists and critical citizens and as such is managed in a cooperative way. It is the second largest newspaper in sales in Uruguay, and 80% of its income comes from membership fees. In its twelve years, it has proven itself to be an innovative information company, not only because of its journalistic approach but also for having created its own marketing channel that allows it to control the entire chain. Some of its priority focus areas are gender, human rights, minorities, and youth, in addition to disseminating alternative models of development linked to solidarity, economy, cooperation, and entrepreneurship.  The organization recognizes that it is positioned within a business industry with high cultural impact and with great challenges ahead: the sale of information is a productive activity, it is also a social function - keeping the citizenry informed - and as such it requires businessmen willing to prioritize the common good over profit. For this reason, it places high strategic importance on continuing to improve a model of collective ownership and self-management in the press sector in alliance with a community of readers.

Industry: Journalism; Communication & PR/Media; Government & Public Policy, Law & Human and Civil Rights; Social Entrepreneurship
Sector: Nonprofit Organization
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Possible Intern Roles:

JOURNALISM INTERN

The intern will work with a team of multidisciplinary actors committed to the rigorous verification of all the elements that make up the public discourse and the information ecosystem.  The intern will carry out the following tasks:

  • Detect verifiable phrases in public discourse.

  • Detect images, audios, videos, and viral GIFs in social media.

  • Identify key issues in the news agenda.

  • Verify the public discourse (search and systematization of data, writing notes, publication).

  • Verify possible “false news” (verification of the veracity of images, audios, videos, etc., writing notes, publication).

  • Create content for social media.

  • Discuss content on the web and social networks.

  • Prepare content to send to the organization’s founder and allied media.

Training in the traditional methodology of fact checking for all the members of the team will be provided.

Suggested Spanish level: Fluent
Candidate requirements: Candidates will have experience in journalism, communications, social sciences, economics, programming and systems, graphic and web design, and/or management of social media.



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