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By Sapna Maheshwari
The newspaper posted an ad for a video intern
who will get paid in school credit but criticized the practice in an editorial published Sunday.
The New
York Times published an editorial on Sunday praising New
York University and Columbia for moving away from unpaid internships,
highlighting Columbia in particular for its decision to stop offering academic
credit for them, as they “mostly functioned as a fig leaf for employers, who
could pretend that the credit somehow justified not paying for a student’s
work.”
While the
newspaper’s editorial board operates independently from its newsroom, it was a
little striking then to see the Times’ March 3 job listing for an unpaid spring
semester video intern.
The ideal
candidate will work between 10 and 20 hours a week “for school credit” and must
be “enrolled in a greater NYC-area college pursuing a full-time degree in a
related creative field,” according to the posting from March 3. The other five
internships on the company’s website are
paid positions.
Unpaid
internships have been a hot-button issue, with a report from the National
Association of Colleges and Employers showing last year that they make up
roughly half the internships taken by the graduating class of 2013. The Times has
been called out before for reporting on the questionable
legality of unpaid internships then offering such jobs itself.
A Times spokesperson
didn’t immediately reply to an email and voicemail after regular business hours
seeking comment.
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