Every few months, we select a chosen few current college or graduate students to join us in our offices in SoHo. We ask them to scour the web, the airwaves, and the pages of print publications for striking and original media stories.

In exchange, we promise the chance to earn bylines and the sense of a job well done. And not to make them get us coffee.

Internships begin in September; start and end dates are flexible. We’ll expect you to come in 2-3 days a week, so a close proximity to NYC is a must. We can also help you out with college credit if you’re interested.

The main qualification for this internship is an obsession with the media industry and media culture that matches ours:

• Does your heart beat faster when network ratings come out?
• Are you nursing a severe dependency on Twitter and the blogosphere?
• Can you recite the major subsidiaries of Time-Warner, News Corp., the Walt Disney Company, and Viacom from memory?

If so, congratulations! You are an irredeemable media nerd, and you should email lizzie@mediaite.com with the following:

• A resume/CV, including references
• Any two samples of your academic or journalistic writing, each preferably in a different style (long-form vs. short-form, magazine vs. blog, etc.)
• A brief (1-page) cover letter explaining why your experience, knowledge, and personality make you the ideal intern for our site.

Fall is only a month away, so get yours in ASAP!

Every few months, we select a chosen few current college students to join us in our offices in SoHo. We ask them to scour the web, the airwaves, and the pages of print publications for striking and original media stories.

In exchange, we promise the chance to earn bylines and the sense of a job well done. And not to make them get us coffee.

The main qualification for this internship is an obsession with the media industry and media culture that matches ours:

• Does your heart beat faster when network ratings come out?
• Are you nursing a severe dependency on Twitter and the blogosphere?
• Can you recite the major subsidiaries of Time-Warner, News Corp., the Walt Disney Company, and Viacom from memory?

If so, congratulations! You are an irredeemable media nerd, and you should email interns@mediaite.com with the following:

• A resume/CV, including references
• Any two samples of your academic or journalistic writing, each preferably in a different style (long-form vs. short-form, magazine vs. blog, etc.)
• A brief (1-page) cover letter explaining why your experience, knowledge, and personality make you the ideal intern for our site

Summer is only a month away, so get yours in ASAP!

What you need to know:

This is a full time internship at our SoHo offices from August/September to December 2010.

If you are currently an undergraduate or graduate student, we’ll arrange for academic credit.

If you’re not a student, stipends are available.

Mediaite is a young site. Consequently, our interns have a lot of freedom with what they choose to research and write about. Expect to do lots of writing. In return, you’ll get bylines.

Qualifications:

Above all, we want someone with a passion for the media industry in all its forms- online, print, and broadcast. If you can recite the prime time line ups for all major cable TV networks and have found a second home in the political blogosphere then this is the perfect internship for you.

Additional, but my no means necessary, qualifications:

• previous internships in the media industry
• experience with blogging software/HTML
• experience with graphic design software such as Adobe Creative Suite or Gimp
• experience with video editing software such as iMovie or Final Cut

To apply:

Send the following as email attachments to interns@mediaite.com:

• a resume
• three (3) clips of your academic or journalistic writing
• two (2) sample news posts that you could see being published on Mediaite
• a brief cover letter explaining why your experiences and personality make you the perfect intern for Mediaite

Applications are rolling, so apply as soon as possible.

After two weeks in the office Matthew Robson, who ostensibly landed his post because his dog was friends with the dog of a senior financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, penned a report called “How Teenagers Consume Media.” Which was very smart, because what do profit-minded adults want to know more than anything? What teenagers think! Needless to say, corner office occupants worldwide ate it up.

So what earth shattering things did he have to say? What it appears to boil down to is that Twitter is for old people. International panic over this disclosure has ensued…despite the fact Twitter has no way to make a profit yet. DOES USING TWITTER MEAN YOU ARE AN OLD PERSON? Is pretty much what the report got distilled down to in the minds of people who pay attention to these sorts of things. You can imagine how those savvy over 30 twitterers who thought they were ahead of the game felt upon reading that!

Robson also notes that kids don’t listen to the radio or pay for music. (If you didn’t already know this you are probably someone who still listens to the radio and shops for CDs.) Also, along with just about everyone else under the age of forty* teenagers don’t read newspapers.

Anyway here’s what he had to say about Twitter that apparently rocked the media globe:

He told The Times that at home he usually communicates with his male friends while blowing up terrorists on the action game Call of Duty. “You use a mobile phone if you want to talk to girls,” he said, as “only about one in fifty girls plays computer games.”

Girls are a lot more prone to spend their time on social networking sites. Matthew uses Facebook but his accounts with Piczo and Bebo have lapsed and Twitter is strictly for the elderly. “It’s aimed at adults,” he said. “Stephen Fry is not particularly cool. Also, for the cost of one tweet you could send quite a few text messages.” As no teenagers followed each other’s profiles, tweeting was “pointless”.

Call us crazy, but the most disturbing part of that quote has nothing to do with Twitter.

Not being 15 we turned to our own genius Mediaite Interns (they of the same-named Twitter feed) to ask them their thoughts. They aren’t 15 either, by the way (their median age is 20), but they are a great deal closer to it than us! Here’s a summary:

• This sounds more apt for a hardcore gamer / loser than all 15-year-olds. While most aren’t crazy about calling on the phone, talking through your xbox requires all your friends to be logged in and in front of their tvs at all times.

• He’s British and they’re weird about cell phones. They were texting non-stop way before Americans (maybe they evolved beyond text updates before Twitter came along) and they do mostly pre-pay (that whole ‘credit’ thing he mentions). Unlike American kiddos who just text forever and then their parents hate them at the end of the month).

• This sounds a little extreme. Possible, but probably not representative. The Twitter comment, though, seems to be supported by market research – can’t speak to personal experience because I LOVE me some Twitter, but millennials generally don’t like Twitter. Its fastest growing demographic (and on FB too!) is older women. (NB We didn’t ask what qualified in their minds as “older” in this scenario).

• The early adopters always think that everyone else is an early adopter.

There you have it folks, what the young people are actually thinking! That said, does anyone doubt that by the time this kid is old enough to drive Twitter probably will be a thing of the past? The future’s so bright, etc.

* This is based solely on results gleaned from a quick survey of our office and G-chat.

Three final points:

• Dan Abrams had no editorial control over the content of this video, except to the extent that he sang.
• This explains the penguins.
• Follow the Mediaite Interns on Twitter!

In the moments following the Palin resignation, while our bosses were glued to their TVs and all a-Twitter with commentary, we took to the streets to find out what  New York thought about the news.  Although we had to make several promises that we weren’t asking them for money for Greenpeace, the people we met were eager to share their opinions.Highlights below.

Follow the Mediaite Interns on Twitter! And watch this space.