Top 5 Reasons to Intern at Mashable

Mashable is looking for editorial and community interns to join our New York and San Francisco offices during the upcoming spring semester.

Ive now been an intern here since February, while I finish my masters degree at NYU, and I can assure you that if being an intern here was anything less than a great experience, I wouldnt have made it this far. Ten months is a long time to be an intern. Fortunately, there are lots of reasons to want to come work here.

1. You Get to Write About Awesome Stuff

As an intern on the Ma! shable Community team, Ive had the opportunity to write about a lot of different topics, including our community initiatives. While interns can expect to receive assignments, Ive had the freedom to write about things Im passionate about. When I asked if I could do some music blogging, Entertainment Editor Christina Warren said, Pitch away. I wrote about New York Citys digital intiatives. I used Storify to cover a contentious day of protests at Occupy Wall Street. Oh, and dont forget: I got Mashable staff to embrace stocking. Youll be able to carve out a niche for yourself here.

2. You Get to Hang Out with Awesome People

What more and more people are realizing and this is becoming more obvious as the company grows is that a walk around our office will introduce you to many smart, witty, passionate people who have diverse interests. Being an intern at a smaller company like Mashable means you can pretty much pick these peoples brains on anything, whenever. Thats not a resource to be taken lightly. Even more importantly, the office is by and large full of young journalists who are social and wont shy away from helping you out when you need it.

3! . You Ge t to Interact with Mashables Awesome Community

You wont feel like youre talking to no one, thats for sure. A lot of people come to Mashable for information, which means theres a whole lot of knowledge coming into the site that you can tap in to. People are more than happy to tell you in the comments of a story when youre wrong, but theyre also likely to give you feedback and tell you when they appreciate the work youve done. Theres a lot to be learned from this community, too. Look no further than our LinkedIn group, where professionals are discussing tips and best practices for social media and business. I spend more time listening than I do talking, because I find the wisdom of this crowd to be very useful.

4. The Kitchen Is Stocked Every Day

If youre a college or graduate student, chances are you arent living the life of the 1%. In addition to getting paid to be an intern at Mashable, theres a fully stocked kitchen with snacks, coffee, and soda. I promise you no one will give you a dirty look if you go back for a third time by 3 p.m., either. My usual suspects: oatmeal in the morning, raisins around lunch, pretzels in the afternoon. As they say, its the little things.

5. Mashable* Interns Wind Up in Good Places*

On Jan. 3, Ill start full-time as the newest Community Assistant at Mashable, and Ill have company. Joining me that day will be Chelsea Stark as Multimedia Producer and Stephanie Buck as Features Writer. Both of them went through the internship program this year, as did Zoe Fox, now a Repo! rter in our New York office. Other interns that worked here earlier this year have gone on to work as Social Media Editor at Univision and as a freelance videographer doing projects in places like Cambodia and Haiti. This isnt to say that a Mashable internship is a guarantee of employment, but the people here care and will do everything they can to ensure their interns are successful and happy.