Careers

Editorial Internship for Charleston Weddings

Our internship is a competitive opportunity to hone and practice your journalism skills at an award-winning magazine and its associated digital properties. The intern will help coordinate the production of Charleston Weddings magazine and our blog, the Wedding Row. Main responsibilities include wedding trend research, writing, editing, fact-checking, and general administrative work. The editorial intern will also help out with social media.
 
The ideal applicant is a detail-oriented self-starter who is genuinely interested in the wedding industry. We are looking for someone with strong writing skills and experience in proofing and copyediting (in adherence to the Chicago Manual of Style), solid writing skills, and knowledge of Adobe InDesign. The internship is unpaid and requires a minimum of 15 hours per week.
 
Interested candidates should contact Peggy Loftus (weddingseditor@charlestonmag.com) and submit a cover letter, résumé, and three writing samples (each sample must not exceed 1,000 words). High school students will not be considered. While we're happy to consider remote internships, preference will be given to local candidates. 

EDITORIAL GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERNSHIP

  • We publish four different magazines - you get to be a part of all of them
  • Learn the process of making a magazine by working directly with the creative team
  • Help design editorial pages of a magazine with our creative director and graphic designers overseeing & guiding you
  • Polish up your researching skills
  • Converting photographs from RAW, re-touching, color-correcting etc.
  • Assist with the production of photo-shoots
  • Network while you start your professional career
  • Take advantage of all the opportunities to help at events that we sponsor
  • Must have a great attitude & good work ethic
  • To be comfortable in a fast pace environment with tight deadlines
  • Must be proficient in Photoshop & InDesign

Please send resumes and inquiries to Julie Wood (jwood@charlestonmag.com). 

(click here to download more information about our internship program)

For summer internships please apply in the month of January only. For any other time of year, you may apply at anytime.

 

EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNSHIP

- Depending on your strengths, have upward of 20+ images in each issue
- Go on studio, portrait, in-house, and location shoots
- Gain knowledge from other professional photographers by assisting at photo shoots
- Learn the process from camera-to-layout by working directly with the art director and graphic designers as a team
- Convert from RAW format
- Complete at least 20 hours a week, for at least 3 months
(Minimum hours are necessary to stay involved in a constantly changing atmosphere)

*Ideal candidates own digital SLR equipment and have a good understanding of digital photography and lighting. Must submit digital portfolio samples. Please send resumes and inquiries to Julie Wood (jwood@charlestonmag.com). 


 

 

The Wedding Row

December 10 2018
After connecting on Tinder (both are adamant that they were each on it for a short, short while) Charleston residents Arlene and Andrew met at a local café where she says she knew she was in trouble—...

December 7 2018
Did you know we typically save our most blockbuster weddings to post on Fridays? It’s true. So knowing that, and that this couple got engaged in Italy (on a gondola in Venice, no less), and that they...

December 6 2018
Seems like you don’t even need to be Irish to have some of their fabled luck. Take Trygve and Brooks for instance: The pair met in Columbus, Ohio, via Match.com and went on their first date on St....

December 5 2018
Any first date can be intimidating, and especially so when it’s a blind date. In fact, butterflies got to Kierstin so bad when she was set up by a friend to meet Mike, she canceled. Luckily, Kierstin...

December 4 2018
After dating for three-and-a-half years, Olivia and Sam were visiting her family in Columbia, South Carolina, for the Fourth of July when the whole crew decided a day trip to Charleston was in order...

December 3 2018
When they met up for a reunion with a group of their fellow missionaries a year after all had spent a week in Savannah, Georgia, Ashley and Brian hit it off—bigtime. That encounter launched the pair...

November 30 2018
Yes, Paula and Tyler’s Boone Hall Plantation wedding is a dream to look at. But we have to say the backstory to their day is just as inspiring. There’s just something about a couple who knows...

November 29 2018
Is wedding planning getting to you? Say hello to Charleston’s newest feel-better motivator, Ginny Leavitt, the health coach behind Healthy Bride Experience, a program that helps brides-to-be look and...