Toronto Life Editorial Internship Program
Toronto Life's editorial internship is a four-month program for university graduates interested in working in the magazine industry. Candidates must be creative, organized, motivated and willing to work a 40-hour week for a stipend of $2,000 for the four-month period.
In return, the intern will have an opportunity to participate in many aspects of magazine production, including story conferences, post-mortem and production meetings, fact-checking and, if the intern shows interest and ability, some writing.
If you have the qualifications and are interested, please complete the attached application and return it to our chief of research, Veronica Maddocks, at the magazine (111 Queen St. E., Toronto, Ont. M5C 1S2 or vmaddocks@torontolife.com) along with a cover letter, current résumé and, if available, a published sample of your writing.
Good luck,
Sarah Fulford
Editor
Application
These assignments will enable us to gauge: (a) your familiarity with Toronto Life and its readership; (b) your ability to generate appropriate story ideas; and (c) your writing skills and attention to detail.
- Generate four story ideas for articles in the magazine in the form of proposals (about 100 words each). Show clearly how and why they would be appropriate for an existing section of the magazine (e.g. This City, a front-of-the-book column, a feature story, a design column, etc.). Your proposals should be clearly focused and should indicate why you think these ideas are right for Toronto Life.
- Write a review of the current issue (500 words or so). We know we're not perfect, so we expect a critical analysis.
- Fact-check and copy-edit the following passage, identifying any errors of fact, grammar, punctuation or spelling. The "I" referred to in the final sentence is chief of research, Veronica Maddocks, who can be contacted at 416-364-3333, ext. 3056. Please provide us with a list of all sources used.
My mother didn’t believe in him. It was only when she saw his name on the official website and his familiar address 7 Club Street, Birkenhead England, that she accepted the existence of this young man. Her own father had never mentioned his older brother who died in the mud of Flanders in July 1917 years before she was born, and all those with answers are now themselves dead. George Agnew is buried in the CWC cemetery at Etaple. The small fishing port had evolved into a “hospital city” equipped to deal with 22,000 wounded but the medical care was perfunctory and the injuries horrendous. 14,000 French and British Great War soldiers lie in its commonwealth graves.
“I never knew,” said my mother, “Why didn’t anyone tell me? They talked enough about the death of your great-grandfather. He walked off the edge of the dock and drowned when he was going back to his ship in the early hours of new year’s eve. He was probably drunk. So why would they talk about one and not the other”
I don’t know. I only know what the small notation tells me.
