COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
Our Communications Department works to highlight community events and issues, and flags coverage of issues relating to Islam and Muslims. The Department also holds press conferences and issues press releases, media advisories, and story pitches in order to ensure that Muslim perspectives on pressing issues and current events are represented in the mainstream media.
COMMUNICATIONS INTERN
Intern will work closely with the Executive Director on projects and/or daily tasks per CAIR-Washington's organizational needs.
Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Supervise a "media-watch" team
- Utilize online media to promote CAIR-WA activities
- Work on pieces that deconstruct sensational and biased coverage of issues pertinent to Muslims and Islam. The purpose is to flag such pieces, to highlight their inaccuracies, and to offer thoughtful analyses that diffuse misconceptions.
- Communication Interns' work will be published and featured in a variety of ways:
a.
Published as letters to the
editor and as perspective pieces in Washington
state's main newspapers.
b. Submitted to various community newspapers
c. Published on
well-traversed websites such as Media Monitors (archived by Google)
d. Featured in the upcoming Washington Media Review Blog (to be
launched)
The targeted audience of these pieces is the general American public, readers of the main Washington state newspapers, and web surfers.
Interns may work on long term research projects assisting with
the development of qualitative and quantitative reports, such as the Seattle
Times Review, analysis of the Seattle Times' coverage of Islam and Muslims
over the year and the Barnes and Noble Shelf Study, analysis of the
proportion of books available on Islam and Muslims.
Interns may also participate in Blog Watch, where major blogs are
monitored and responded to, so as to address inaccuracies and
misconceptions about Islam and Muslims.
Qualifications:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficient with internet research
"NEW MEDIA" INTERN
Intern will work closely with Executive Director and will complement other Interns' work to promoting that work, CAIR-WA activities and American Muslim perspectives through "new media."
Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Promote CAIR-WA's work through new media
- Assist other interns by providing online visibility to other projects
- Develop CAIR-WA's online presence
- Devise ways to reach a diverse audiences through the use of new media
- Work closely with Communications Intern
- Proficient in use of blogger, youtube, facebook, twitter, digg, and other popular new-media platforms
- Excellent communication skills