I learned something from Patch

The Santa Monica Patch reports that KCRW is starting a paid-internship program. Who knew?

Journalism making a difference

In response to an April 2 New York Times story about the growth of unpaid internships, and the legal gray area surrounding them, Atlantic Media, which owns The Atlantic magazine, decided to pay its interns retroactively to last year:

Thinking about the internship program through the lens of Saturday's New York Times story, we found ourselves revisiting the concept. We had thought this was the way to structure unpaid internships but if it sits near a grey zone, it's not for us.

Trend setters? Doubtful.

(From Daily Finance via Romenesko)