Medicare Points by Robert Weiner, October 30, 2003
Job Description
High Level Op-ed Writing Intern/Policy Analyst
Weiner Public News – Washington, DC 20038-8271
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 interns (with expenses covered and bonuses described below) to write bylined op-eds for major media on progressive national issues and organize news conferences. 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.
The program is mostly virtual through January 2026 and then is scheduled to return to DC meetings. One key aspect is that you will research, write, and co-byline op-ed columns (opinion pieces) in major national newspapers--we've done more than 1,100: (www.weinerpublic.com/opeds)
We won the National Press Club President's Award for our op-ed program enlisting young journalists as bylined co-writers in major papers and the NPC Vivien Award for organizing Newsmaker VIP news conferences with leaders of both parties on many issues. You will be part of it all.
You will work at least three days a week, and will meet virtually with periodic meetings in DC as needed. DC Meetings at major national organizations with meals provided.
If you have written for college, high school, 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 Company President Bob Weiner served in the Clinton White House as a Director of Public Affairs. He has worked for Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey, 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). 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. He has known Joe Biden since then, when he organized a Delaware youth vote forum for him and was invited after to Joe's house. He was later Chief of Staff of the House Aging Committee, brought Colonel Sanders in as a witness, and is credited with leading landmark legislation to abolish mandatory retirement. Bob directed the Daily Press Briefing Room for three three onsite Democratic National Conventions, (2016, 2012 and 2008), and brought an organizing team of college and young interns with him including in 2024 for whom he arranged convention credentials.
We have had recent op-eds published in The Washington Post, Washington Times, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Newsweek, Miami Herald, 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, New York Post, The New York Daily News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Austin American-Statesman, New Jersey Star-Ledger, Michigan Chronicle and many others of the nation's top 100 papers, plus leading blogs like OpEd News and LaborPress. Oped News has regularly ranked our opeds H1, H2, or H3, meaning the top op-eds in the nation the day they came out, and Newsweek called two of our comment submissions "Best" twice this year. Congressional and national leaders have said our articles have an impact.
Compensation: This internship offers College/University credit, plus paid bonuses per op-ed, intern membership we cover, and lunches included at DC meetings.
We believe this is one of the best internships in the nation because of its uniqueness in getting you bylined in major media, and your organizing.
Check out our )Op Eds website link for Bob's (and models of your future) op eds, including most co-authored with bylined interns as you will be; see broader link www.weinerpublic.com as well as our
Substack link
***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, high school, or community papers, or scripts you wrote for college or community radio-TV, are welcome as work products. Otherwise, anything that shows you can write op eds.)
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