<p>Hey folks,</p>
<p>Congrats to the new Class of 2012! As you start planning for campus and planning what you want to do once you get here, I wanted to let you know that The Daily Pennslvanian, Penn’s daily student-run newspaper is recruiting.</p>
<p>I’ve been hanging around College Confidential on and off since I first started looking at colleges in 2004.</p>
<p>Not to brag, but The Daily Pennsylvanian is Penn’s premiere student run organization. We cover news and sports relevant to the Penn community, putting out a print edition five times a week through the school year, (weekly through the summer) and a website year-round. We are fully independent from the University and incorporated as a non-profit corporation with over a million in revenue each year, which goes towards equipment, printing, rent and maintaining the operation of our staff.</p>
<p>Daily Pennsylvanian alumni are a tight knit community that have gone on to jobs at every major newspaper or media company in the country.</p>
<p>There’s a range of opportunities to get involved when you get to campus, and a fast track to a leadership position if you’re dedicated. Nearly all of the current board of editors and managers were sophomores when we took on our positions.</p>
<p>We’re in the middle of a re-orienting the paper with more of an online focus, so that’s probably the fastest way up. It’s also the initiative I’m heading up.</p>
<p>The web staff is developing a new design and CMS for dailypennslvanian.com
We’re looking for people who are, or who want to be a
- PHP/MySQL developer
- XHTML/CSS designer</p>
<p>The multimedia team is responsible for producing videos, podcasts, audio slideshows, flash interactives. (Basically, whatever we feel like)
Looking for people who want to learn to be
- Videographers and producers
- Audio/podcast producer
- Flash designer</p>
<p>If you’re interested in joining the DP, but not in Web, there are also positions in,</p>
<li>Reporting (write articles about news and sports)</li>
<li>Photography (use our super-nice equipment to take photos)</li>
<li>Art/Design (create infographics and layout the paper)</li>
<li>Advertising (sell ads)</li>
<li>Marketing (promote the paper)</li>
<li>Credit/Finance (collect money, and manage the DP’s investments)</li>
<li>Production (design ads)</li>
</ol>
<p>So PM me or e-mail at sun@dailypennslvanian if you want more info or who to talk to.</p>
<p>Our recruitment meetings on campus are September 9th and 10th.</p>