Northstar Travel Media, LLC.

Responsibilities
Position Title: Production Assistant

General Duties: Assist production specialist and supervisor with tasks to produce TW newspaper, BTN and supplements. Tasks include but may not be limited to:
• Trafficking ad material
• Placing scans on InDesign pages
• Processing full page ads into PDF-X1As
• Filing digital documents and paper documents

Qualifications:
• Computer literate
• Organized

Education Required / Preferred:
• High School Diploma

Computer Skills Required / Preferred:
• Knowledge of MAC platform, InDesign, Entourage, Word and Excel a plus but exact processes can be taught.

Knowledge and Skills to be Gained:
• Intern will gain general knowledge of how the production end of a magazine works including how the Travel Weekly and Business Travel News production workflows run.

Short-Term Skills:
• Candidate will use Entourage and InDesign to receive and review the ads to ensure they are the proper format.
• Candidate will use InDesign to place ads and then will use Made to Print to turn those ads into postscript files. Those postscript files will further be processed into PDF X1A files.
• Candidate will use K4 and InDesign to access editorial pages to place fraction scans

Long-Term Skills:
• Candidate will learn how to manage time and work to meet deadlines.

Life Skills:
• In TW production customer service is extremely important. Anyone who deals with our department is a customer whether they are internal or external employees. This life skill can help in all aspects of life.

Please email cover letter and resume to: Resumes@ntmllc.com.

Qualifications