Got $15,000? You Too Can Intern at HuffPo!

By Alex in Blogs & Internet on May 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Want to "jumpstart your career in the blogosphere" with an internship at one of the world’s largest blogs? Arianna Huffington’s blog Huffington Post, currently ranked #1 by Technorati, has an opening. But there’s a catch: you have to pay at least $15,000 …

Forget a paying internship. Forget working for free. You’re going to have to fork over more than $13,000 if you want to intern at HuffPo.

Oh, and did we mention you’d only be there for two or three months? At least you get to pick which office you’d work at — New York or D.C.

Incredibly, so far 10 people have bid on the internship, which is "valued" at $500, on online auction site charitybuzz.com. HuffPost founder Arianna Huffington donated the internship.

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Tags: blog, huffington post, internship

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Keith
May 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Wow. How impossible for the poor to be involved. Must be that they only want rich kids to work for them.
vonskippy
May 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
PT Barnum was never more correct then with crap like this.
mikerbaker
May 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
That money for this particular internship is for charity – the Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. You can still become an intern at Huffington Post the old fashioned way – through hard work and enthusiasm.
ted
May 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Never heard of it.
Ashley
May 14th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Charity auction =/= exploitation
Allan
May 14th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
What a bunch of bullshit.
dutchboy
May 14th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Limousine liberals.
TimO
May 15th, 2009 at 7:47 am
This is why I didn’t get into newspapers or TV after college… standard practice in those industries is that you can’t get a job unless you intern, basically becoming an unpaid slave for a couple of years.

What kind of employees are you going to get who can afford to work free? Well-off cupcakes whose Mommys and Daddys can pay their bills for 2 years have an instant in while anyone who has to scramble to pay the rent is locked out of even getting started.

That’s why you have the type of people who dominate the press today….
rellimz
May 15th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I think some of you are missing the point. This position was offered up as an item for a charity auction. The actions of these “Limousine liberals” are being misrepresented by those of you who choose to twist the truth.

Critical thinking is a great tool that everyone should learn. Blind liberal bashing for the sake of bashing is asinine as is conservative bashing.
Gauldar
May 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@rellimz

Twisting truth is only possible when there is truth, the opposite to that is faith which apparently can’t be touched. Atleast I think that is what they tell themselves.

As for paying for internship, this makes sense. It’s on the job training, with incentive to do a good job. Lots of people want the spot because “Huffington Post” on the resume is worth its weight in gold for journalism.
skidworth
May 15th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
that huffington hack sure has a big ego and a lame blog. i don’t think that 99% of americans give a rat’s ass about having that on their resume.
skidworth
May 15th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
ya see, this is where liberals and conservatives are fundamentally different. libs love to feel “empowered” by the fantasy world of blogging, message boards and social networking and the sense that they are a “part of it” while the conservatives live in the real world of sweat, toil and taxpaying. i’m not saying all of either side are labeled as such, but the vast majority of the online community is left, the radio listeners that are out on the production floor or out on the road driving a truck are on the right. who said it? Skidworth said it!
Kevin
May 15th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Amen brotha Skidworth!
seefish3
May 15th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Talk about out of touch ! Whenever I heard the name “Ariana Huffington” in the past, I thought it was a joke. Like “Thurston Howell the Third”. This woman really exists ? Scary.
Del Taco
May 15th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
This money is for charity? Right. Buy your way into the club and say your doing it for the little people. Reminds me of benefit parties done in the name of charity. Right. It’s a good excuse to indulge yourself and offer a token to your guilty, hypocritical conscience. Whoever actually takes that job deserves to have that black mark on their resume. Pathetic.
skidworth
May 16th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Thurston Howell III heh heh heh.
everytime i see Jim Backus on an old TV show or an old movie, i laugh at TH III. what a great character, just like Jethro and Barney Fife.
seefish3
May 16th, 2009 at 8:06 am
The ultimate Lucas/Gilligan’s Island mash-up…

TH III in THX1138 !
ted
May 17th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I just went to that blog. It seems cold and difficult to actually read any of the articles without having to click a bunch of times.

Plus, it’s all liberal-looking, which doesn’t appeal to me.

I’m surprised someone would pay a ton of money for that.
mblanford
May 18th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
This will give some young intern the opportunity to learn how to promote all the pseudoscientic non-sense that is becoming the hallmark of the ridiculous Huff. Po.

Skidworth: Give me a break. Conservatives have done everything they can to break the backs of America’s working class who do the real sweating and toiling. I just feel sorry for the workers who vote against their own best interests to elect these people based on some non-existent ideology.

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