Internship Posting: Latin American Writing Assignment, Work from Home, Unpaid

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Organization:

Southern Pulse

Location:

(Washington DC (telecommute))

Website:

www.southernpulse.com

Contact Information:

Anna Miro

Email:

applicant@southernpulse.com

Description:

Southern Pulse is a growing information gathering and dissemination organization that uses field contacts and in country media sources to gather open source information on security and politics in Latin America. The internship position(s) will focus you on a particular sub-region in Latin America - Cent Am, the Andes, the Southern Cone, etc. - and involve information gathering from local media sources in Spanish/Portuguese (usually online), producing concise news feeds or "pulses" via a weekly intel cycle, and contributing to other Southern Pulse content collection and preparation.

The position is conducted remotely and usually requires 10-15 hours/week; it is unpaid but provides experience in analyzing security in Latin American, writing and editing, as well as access to the Southern Pulse database and potential future opportunities with the organization and Southern Pulse partner organizations.

Applicants may review the site at www.southernpulse.com.

Qualification:

Applicants should be focused on Latin America and be proficient in reading/translating Spanish-English; knowledge of Portuguese may help. This unpaid internship is for a period of three months, rolling application. Interested candidates may send a cover letter and CV to: americas@southernpulse.com.