Social Media Content Intern for AsianWeek Database Project

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The AsianWeek Database Project is bringing back three decades of news, education, and entertainment surrounding the Asian American community from the historical pages of AsianWeek’s newspaper and website. We are seeking a Social Media Intern to collaborate with our social media team to develop meaningful content that enlightens, entertains, and engages audiences.

Areas of responsibility will include:

• Working alongside social media team to develop the content calendar and steward content from ideation to creation
• Performing research of historic community events, people, and news, leveraging the AsianWeek Database and other resources
• Developing ideas for both social media, video, and website content
• Assisting overall social media strategy, providing input on messaging, optimizing pages, increasing visibility of content, and increasing overall engagement
• Attending weekly social media team meetings to collaborate and coordinate
• Keeping a pulse on AAPI community news and newsmakers to help identify stories, articles, and ideas in the form of photos, videos, blogs, graphics or other content that is relevant to our followers and audience

Experiences and qualifications of ideal candidate include:

• Knowledge of, interest in, and engagement with the AAPI community
• Asian American/Ethnics Studies, Journalism, Business, Marketing, History, or related major
• Experience with history resources (e.g. database archives)
• Experience in social media content creation (graphic design experience also a plus!)
• Proficiency using and working with social media platforms: Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
• Writing experience either professionally, academically, or personally is a plus
• Well organized, efficient, timely, hard-working
• Energetic, friendly, interactive, creative

About the AsianWeek Database Project:

For over 30 years, AsianWeek served as America’s first and largest English-language print and online publication serving the Asian American community. As the voice of Asian America, we covered, spotlighted, and showcased the important and meaningful Asian American news, information, and entertainment across the U.S., to strengthen relationships among Asian American communities with the greater community at large.

Today, we are excited to launch the AsianWeek Database Project that will help preserve Asian American history by housing over 1,500 back issues and thousands of stories of AsianWeek. Our mission is to acknowledge the benefit of recording the Asian American experience to further educate, enlighten, and entertain the community and beyond.

To learn more, visit https://www.asianweek.com/ and follow us at @AsianWeekDB, https://www.facebook.com/AsianWeek and https://www.instagram.com/asianweekdb/