Job Description:
Who we are
Founded in 1923, W. W. Norton is the oldest and largest independent
and employee-owned publishing house, publishing works of Nobel
laureates, master teachers, and Pulitzer Prize winners. For almost a
century, Norton has been dedicated to achieving a common goal: to
bring to readers and students enduring fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry, as well as high-quality textbooks and digital learning tools.
About the internship
W. W. Norton is looking for interns to participate in our twelve-week
internship program. Our internship program provides participants with
an engaging, supportive, and hands-on learning experience in
publishing that includes brown bag lunch sessions and networking
within the intern class. Your work if you become a Norton intern with
the Norton Critical Editions team may include the following:
- Assisting with research tracking down rightsholders for text permissions
- Setting up permissions logs
- Reviewing proof passes for style consistency and other editorial corrections
- Updating the audit of NCE contributors and general NCE backlist
- Assisting with manuscript prep
- Photo research
- Compiling sales data for prospective acquisitions
- Mailing books to contributors and scholarly journals
- Drafting book descriptions for copyright submission to the Library
of Congress
- Designing social media posts for the NCE list and developing
growth strategies
- Miscellaneous administrative tasks