All F Newsmagazine jobs are for SAIC students only, except for jobs distributing the newspaper outside of school.
Please consult Career Development job listings to see which jobs are currently available.
F Newsmagazine is always interested in talking to freelance writers, illustrators and comic artists.
• Art Director
• Designer
• Illustrator
• Editor
• Associate Editor
• Editor, FNewsmagazine.com
• Freelancers and Staff Writers
• Art Criticism Editor
• Ad Business Manager
• Circulation and Survey Assistant
• Art News Writer
• Art and Technology Writer
• Film Critic
• Online Job Application
• Writing Resources for Newspaper Students
Editor
The editor writes and edits articles for F Newsmagazine. This includes networking to find writers, encouraging them to write and become involved with the newspaper, meeting with them to discuss and critique their work; working with them to get articles in on deadline; editing, copy editing and proofreading the articles.
The editor has a leadership role both on F Newsmagazine and in the school community. On F Newsmagazine, the editors give leadership to the newspaper staff, do long range planning, and take initiative in addressing problems. The editors represent F Newsmagazine to the school community. They support the mission of the newspaper as described in its by-laws; they do outreach to students to recruit them to the newspaper staff and open the newspaper to their articles, artwork and comments.
Meetings: The editors come to editorial and staff meetings Monday from 3-5:45 and meet, in addition, as necessary with other editors, usually once each week. They represent F News at meetings with students, faculty and administration as necessary.
Particular time commitments: Monday meetings 3-5:45, other meetings as necessary; meeting once every two weeks with faculty adviser; production one weekend/month. The editors keep posted office hours each week, including during times when students are able to meet--e.g., noon hour, 4-6 and evenings.
Writing: The editor writes one major article for each issue and minor articles as necessary.
Working with writers: The editor meets with writers, maintains contact with them by email, explains why articles are not used, suggests revisions and works with writers to help them develop writing skills.
Deadlines: The editor sets an example by finishing his/her own articles on deadline and stays in touch with writers to make sure their articles are submitted by deadline.
Qualifications: We’re looking for someone who’s smart, energetic, ambitious, works well with others and is willing to put the needs of the newspaper and the school community before personal interests and ambitions. Needless to say: the editor must have a sound command of grammar and style.
Pay: $11.50/hour, 15-20 hours/week. Top of Page | Online Job Application
Art Director
The ideal art director for F Newsmagazine would be an upper level undergraduate or graduate visual communication student or someone from another department with considerable design experience. The art director not only gathers and assigns photos and illustrations for the paper's stories, but also directs other student designers. An interest in publication design is essential as well as a strong commitment to collaboration as a process. This art director is the key liaison between the editorial and design staffs.
Pay: $11.50/hr, 15 hours/week.
To set up an interview, call Mike Miner at (312) 222-6154. Top of Page | Online Job Application
Designer
3 studio credits, independent study.
Student designers for F Newsmagazine design pages for the school's monthly newsmagazine in collaboration with photographers, illustrators, writers and editors. Designers receive 3 hours of independent studio credit. They must attend weekly staff meetings and participate both Saturday and Sunday one weekend each month. These weekend production days start at 10 a.m. and last until mid-evening each day.
To sign up for the fall semester, call Mike Miner at (312) 222-6154. Top of Page | Online Job Application
Illustrators for F Newsmagazine provide visual commentary to accompany stories. The student art directors make assignments based on their judgment about what style of illustration best fits the subject. Illustrators are selected after a portfolio review and are paid per illustration. Illustrators usually receive one assignment per month.
To arrange a portfolio review, call Mike Miner at (312) 222-6154. Top of Page | Online Job Application
Associate Editor
The associate editor assists the editor in writing, editing, working with writers.
A few of the time commitments: Monday meetings 3-5:45, other meetings as necessary; meeting once every two weeks with faculty adviser; production one weekend/month. The editors keep posted office hours each week, including during times when students are able to meet--e.g., noon hour, 4-6 and evenings.
Writing: The associate editor writes one major article for each issue and minor articles as necessary.
Qualifications: We’re looking for someone who’s smart, energetic, ambitious, works well with others and is willing to put the needs of the newspaper and the school before personal interests and ambitions. Needless to say: the editor must have a sound command of grammar and style.
Pay: $9.50-$11.50/hour, 10 hours/week (we can only pay undergraduates $9.50/hr due to College Work Study rules).
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Description: Edit on-line edition of F Newsmagazine (www.fnewsmagazine.com). Edit and proofread both on-line version of print edition and original web content. Editor is responsible for writing and developing content ideas and outreach to writers in SAIC and art community, including SAIC alumni and high school student writers. Editor should be able to work independently, take initiative to develop new content ideas and strategies for content, outreach to writers, and correspond with other websites in art and writing community to develop links. Editor will work closely with F's web designer and faculty adviser.
Qualifications:Writing and editorial skills, editorial vision, computer literacy, familiarity with world-wide-web. Editing, writing, or web experience preferred.
Pay: $11.50/hour 15-20 hours/week.
Application process: Send resume and writing sample to Paul Elitzik, faculty adviser for F, at pelitz@artic.edu. Telephone inquiries at 312-345-3756.
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Freelancers and Staff Writers
Freelancers write when they please--the important thing is to establish a relationship with the editors so you write things F can use. There is pay, not for all articles, but for articles the editors especially need. Pay is $15-$30/article, possibly more for an important piece of reporting that requires a lot of work.
Staff writers are more closely involved than freelancers—they write for each issue and can get paid on a regular basis. This job involves willingness to write what the paper needs, not just what happens to interest the writer. Availability of staff writer positions depends on F's budget—ask the editors.
To apply, just send a resume, job application and writing sample to Paul Elitzik at pelitz@artic.edu. . If you don't have a resume, just some notes about your education, work experience, and interests—especially writing interests. Include a list of a few subjects for articles you would like to see in F—this could include articles you don't want to write as well as articles you do want to write.
A good way to apply to be a regular writer for F is to send the editors (fnews@artic.edu) something for publication—an opinion piece, a review, a critical essay on art, culture or politics, a personal narrative or a story about students or faculty at the school or artists in Chicago. Look at old issues of F on the web at www.fnewsmagazine.com or look at the faculty adviser's writing resources website for ideas: http://www.artic.edu/~pelitz/classes/1004/1004Resources.html (That website was developed for students in the newspaper writing class, intended to help them write articles for the paper).
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Art Criticism Editor
Pay: $9.50-$11.50/hr, 10 hrs/week (We can only pay undergraduates $9.50/hour, due to College Work Study rules.)
Write and edit art criticism for F. Network to find writers, encourage them to write and become involved with the newspaper, meet with them to discuss and critique their work; work with them to get articles in on deadline; edit, copy edit and proofread the articles.
The objectives of the arts section: raise the level of discussion about art in the school with thought-provoking articles; cover work that will interest, intrigue, entertain the reader; be provocative: raise issues that are relevant to the reader, controversial, important; try to have one major critical, interpretive article per month, whether in the form of an essay on an issue, an in-depth review, or a focused and provocative , in-depth interview; try to have one interview with an artist each month; try to include coverage of visiting artist lectures each month.
Write one major article per issue and write or edit an art news column (to which others can contribute short items as well).
The editor’s responsibilities include becoming familiar with the Chicago art scene, art at the school, the contemporary art scene and issues and artists that are being written about in the major art journals and talked about by faculty and students at the school.
Particular time commitments: The arts editor will attend one general editorial meeting on Tuesdays after 4, meet with the other editors and writers as necessary, and help proofread and enter corrections during production weekend.
Qualifications: We’re looking for someone who’s smart, energetic, ambitious, who lives for art, is not afraid of theory but is a clear, no bullshit writer; is interpretive as well as descriptive, is focused on issues as well as style, and who will be good at critiquing student writing. Needless to say: the person must work well with others and have a sound command of grammar and style.
Application process: send a resume, sample of your writing and short list of articles about art you would like to see in F, to Paul Elitzik, faculty adviser, at pelitz@artic.edu. For more information, call him at 312-345-3756 or 773/935-2694.
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Advertising/Business Manager
The job involves developing and implementing marketing strategies; selling ads, with extensive face-to-face, telephone and written contact with advertisers; managing accounts receivable; tracking and proofing ads on production days; otherwise assisting the Faculty Advisor for F in managing the business operations of the newspaper.
Pay: $10/hour
Hours: 15 hours/week.
Requirements: Good organizational skills; good sales, telephone and writing skills; typing, computer skills. Familiarity with Exel is a plus.
Contact Paul Elitzik, 773 935 2694, 312-345-3756, pelitz@artic.edu. Email preferred. Top of Page | Online Job Application
Circulation and Survey Assistant
There are two parts to this job--helping with distribution of F when our regular distributors are unavailable and doing related things, such as hanging flyers and posters and helping with a readership survey (giving students a questionnaire, talking them into filling it out and getting it back) which we may do monthly or bi-monthly. We can pay $8/hr and for a few times in the spring (I don't know how many) there may be 5-10 hours/work, and the hours are flexible. I think it will be around 15 hours some months, but not necessarily all months--work is as needed. We will need people to help with a survey in February and if it goes well, we'll repeat it every month. If not, and if our regular distributor is available for all delivery dates...then there will be less work later or maybe none, so there's no guarantee.
When our distributor isn't available, we will need someone to meet the truck from the printer, unload about 30 bundles of F at Columbus and Sharp, truck them around the school, put them on our newspaper rackes and stuff grad student and faculty boxes. The delivery dates will be usually the last Friday of the month. We may need someone Wed Jan 28.
Pay: $10/hr grad students, $8/hr undergrads (difference in pay mandated by CWS rules. Students have to be CWS eligible.)
If you're interested in helping out, send me a note at pelitz@artic.edu with your work history, status at school. If you have a car and would be interested in distributing F outside the school, tell us what kind of car (year, model--for size).
And if you're interested in F as a writer or reader, you can help by letting me know what you think are its strengths and weaknesses and what kinds of articles you would like to see in it and think would make F important to students at the school.
Art News Writer
Cover art news for F Newsmagazine, writing an art news column and/or art news stories. Read mainstream and alternative art coverage, identify the important issues and events for artists and critics, talk to faculty, students, artists at SAIC and elsewhere and include their perspectives and experience.
Pay: $100, once a month.
Requirements: good writing skills, obsessive interest in what is happening in the arts.
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Art and Technology Writer
Cover technology news of interest to our community--art and technology, technology news of artistic, social or political interest. Write one column/month, possibly other stories.
Pay per article, amount depending on length and work involved.
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Film Critic
A columnist who will write about issues in art, culture or politics, as they are raised by movies, or focusing on particular movies in a way that focuses on the issues. Pay per article, to be arranged.
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