The Toronto Star Newsroom Internship Program
The Radio Room
Application deadline is August 7, 2009 for the Fall 2009/Winter 2010 program.

The Radio Room requires strong reporting and phone interview skills and the ability to work quickly and accurately.

Radio room reporters monitor emergency scanners, do police checks, monitor radio and television news and report stories that are often crime or trauma related. In addition to writing for the newspaper, radio room reporters file breaking news stories and updates to the website.

The radio room environment is often hectic, so successful candidates must be calm, well-organized, able to juggle several tasks at once; able to persuade sometimes reluctant officials to talk and prepared to interview victims of crimes or accidents, and family members of people killed or hurt in accidents or crimes.

The Radio Room is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by journalism students working eight-hour shifts. Several students are hired in late summer to work part-time during the university year; a second group of students is hired to work through the summer months. The radio room has proven to be excellent preparation for summer reporting programs at the Star and other dailies. Strong news reporting experience at university or community papers is required; reporting experience at a daily is a strong asset. The application deadline is August 7, 2009 for the Fall 2009/Winter 2010 program.