Job Openings at RWA:

  • Bylined Op-ed Writing Intern, Weiner Public News, Washington DC

  • A national issues column writers group, headed by a senior Clinton administration Public Affairs Director and former congressional communications director for congressional leaders is looking for quality volunteer intern to write bylined op-eds on progressive national issues in major publications. We work with White House offices, leaders of Congress, consumer groups, world sports agencies, health care rights supporters, efficient military systems advocates, drug policy/criminal justice experts, progressive political organizations, and others.
  • One key aspect is that you will research, write, and co-byline oped columns (opinion pieces) in major national newspapers--we've done more than 1000 - see (www.weinerpublic.com/opeds)
  • ***We won the National Press Club President's Award for our oped intern program enlisting and training young journalists as bylined co-writers in major papers, and three times the NPC Vivien Award for Newsmaker and Speaker VIP news conferences with leaders of both parties on many issues. You will be part of it all.
  • You will work three days a week onsite (and as much virtual in addition as you wish) and will meet at the National Press Club with breakfast and lunch buffets covered each day you are there for the internship.
  • If you have written for college or mainstream papers, radio-TV, or blogs, and have experience with deadlines and word efficiency, you may have what we need -- and what will make your internship productive, published, and fun.
  • Weiner Public News President Bob Weiner served in the Clinton White House as a Director of Public Affairs from 1995-2001. He has worked for U.S. Congressmen John Conyers (D-MI), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Claude Pepper (D-FL), Ed Koch (D-NY), and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). and Four-Star Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Bob believes in the energy and genius of youth and opposes age discrimination at either side. His first Washington position was as National Youth Vote Director for the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate during the famed break-in, where Bob's organization set the all-time youth vote turnout record and Bob met Senator-and-President-to-be Joe Biden. He was later Chief of Staff of the House Aging Committee, brought Colonel Sanders in as a witness, and was credited by Chairman Pepper with leading landmark legislation to abolish mandatory retirement as committee chief of staff. Bob directed the Daily Press Briefing Room for the last three live Democratic National Conventions (2016, 2012 and 2008), and brought an organizing team of college and young interns with him.
  • We have had recent op-eds published in The Washington Post, Washington Times, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, San Diego Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Palm Beach Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Des Moines Register, Denver Post, Tallahassee Democrat, Springfield Republican, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Austin American-Statesman, New Jersey Star-Ledger, Michigan Chronicle, Indianapolis Star-Telegram, and many others of the nation's top 100 papers, plus leading sources like OpEd News, PuLSE Institute, and LaborPress. OpedNews has regularly ranked our opeds H1 and H2, meaning the top op-eds in the nation the day they came out.
  • Compensation: This internship offers college/university credit, plus paid bonuses per oped, National Press Club intern membership, breakfast and lunches included at the National Press Club, and news conference event days.
  • We believe this is one of the best internships in the nation because of its uniqueness in getting you bylined in top papers, and your participating in top VIP news conferences and speaker lunches.
  • Check out our opeds web page: www.weinerpublic.com/opeds for Bob's (and models of your future) opeds, including most co-authored with bylined interns as you will be; see broader link www.weinerpublic.com
  • Check out our opeds website link www.weinerpublic.com/opeds; for Bob's (and models of your future) opeds, including most co-authored with bylined interns as you will be; see broader link www.weinerpublic.com
  • ***Together with your resume, please provide a cover letter and two or three 500-800 word writing samples to show you can write sharp and to-the-point yet substantial opinion pieces. {If available, your pieces from college or community papers, or scripts you wrote for college or community radio-TV, welcome as work products. Otherwise anything that shows you can write opeds.)
  • Send to weinerpublic@comcast.net
  • Job Type: Bylined Oped Writing Internship
  • Experience: Previous writing for publication
  • Additional Compensation: bonuses, other forms
  • Work Location: Washington DC (National Press Club) and Accokeek, MD
  • December 2, 2023 -- Op-ed Writing Intern --A national issues column writers group, headed by a senior Clinton administration Public Affairs Director and former congressional communications director for congressional leaders.
  • The best candidates are ones who've done articles in HS or community or college papers or their own opinion blogs but others can work well too.

    Contact:

    Bob Weiner or Ben Lasky
    301-283-0821/202-306-1200


    Robert S. Weiner, President
    Robert Weiner Associates News and Public Affairs
    White House and Congress Correspondent
    Former spokesman/senior staff, Clinton and Bush White Houses and Cong. John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Claude Pepper, Ed Koch, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and Four-Star Gen. Barry McCaffrey

    1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW #28271
    WASHINGTON, DC 20038-8271
    www.weinerpublic.com
    301-283-0821, cells 202-306-1200 or 202-329-1700
    Email: weinerpublic@comcast.net