W. W. Norton & Company’s 12-week internship program is designed to introduce motivated college students and recent graduates to publishing and to Norton. Internships provide valuable hands-on experience with the day-to-day business of bookmaking, as well as opportunities to network with employees at the company and with fellow interns who frequently go on to become colleagues in the field.
Interns at W. W. Norton are paid $15 per hour and work a maximum of 20 hours weekly. Specific work hours are flexible, but interns are expected to work three or four days per week. All interns must be able to work during regular business hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST). W. W. Norton & Company, an equal opportunity employer, is fully independent and employee-owned.
All internships are posted at https://wwnorton.com/careers/norton-internships.
Apply by Jan. 3, 2023
Internship dates: Feb-April 2023
Click on the job titles below to learn more about some of the opportunities available this semester.
Composition, Communication, and Literature Internship
Your work if you become a Norton intern with the Composition and Literature Print and Media Editorial team may include the following:
- Assisting with manuscript preparation and production for anthologies, readers, and handbooks across the composition and literature list
- Reading manuscripts, proposals, and proofs at various stages of publication to help editors and authors improve the quality of print and digital content
- Creating permissions copies for new inclusions in Norton anthologies or readers
- Learning the basics of copyediting and proofreading
- Maintaining databases of key information such as student writing competition submissions and editorial reviews
- Creating reports to analyze and collate qualitative and quantitative data from editorial reviews and surveys
- Working with the editorial assistants to complete projects as needed for the composition and literature teams
Editorial & Marketing Internship
Your work if you become a Norton intern with the Countryman Press team may include the following:
Editorial
- Reviewing proposals to find potential books that fit in the press’s list
- Proofreading early passes of our titles for accuracy and fine-tuning details
- Organizing manuscripts and selecting art for media-heavy books
- Drafting copy and working with editors to hone writing skills
Publicity & Marketing
- Drafting press releases, galley letters, mailing lists and coordinating marketing mailings
- Coordinating outreach to booksellers, bloggers, influencers and more for a variety of genres
- Assisting in social media management across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, including asset building for select books
Marketing and Editorial Internship
Your work if you become a Norton intern with the Norton Professional Books team may include the following:
- Editorial research projects related to the mental health field
- Marketing research
- Media outreach
- Competitive analysis
- Organization partnership outreach
- Website troubleshooting
- Promo content design
Custom Publications Editorial Internship
Your work if you become a Norton intern with the Custom team may include the following:
- Contributing to the process of customizing textbooks and ebooks to be tailored to a specific class, department, or school’s need, while working with texts across a variety of different disciplines, both in print and digital. Learning the basics of copyediting and proofreading.
- Writing abstracts for reading selections in the Norton Custom Library, our print-on-demand branch.
- Helping assemble surveys, handouts, marketing materials, and similar materials useful to our customers.
- Helping monitor inventory and reprints.
- Testing Norton’s digital learning materials such as InQuizitive for Writers, They Say/I Say Blog, and the Everyone’s An Author Tumblr.
- Maintaining lists and databases of important information, including information related to ISBNs and project status and tracking pertinent information as a project develops.
- Attending meetings to learn how our custom team collaborates closely with a host of teams at Norton and outside of Norton: book production, media producers, editors, customers, designers, fulfillment group, permissions group, vendors, travelers, professors, and bookstores.
