College students or recent graduates who are interested in careers in journalism and who are committed to the values of liberty and peace should apply for an IHS Journalism Internship. The emphasis is on reporting and writing, not fetching coffee, and those selected get to work with reporters and editors in the Freedom Communications chain around the country.
I’ve known Freedom Communications for many years now and am full of admiration for their history, their corporate values, their commitment to good reporting, and their dedication to the principles of liberty. I’ll be spending the next weekend (and a bit) at the Freedom Communications Freedom School in Dallas. The maintenance of a connection to libertarian values is central to the company’s mission. As they point out on their web site,
Our company founder, R.C. Hoiles, left a legacy based on the principles of voluntaryism and the libertarian philosophy. Those legacy values — Integrity, Self-Responsibility, Respect for Individual Freedom, Community and Life-Long Learning — are the bedrock on which Freedom Communications operates today. We call it the Freedom Way.
The Freedom Way means serving communities with integrity and respect while keeping the torch of freedom burning brightly. Opportunity for individuals, careful management of resources, commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and lifelong learning are the cornerstones of the Freedom Way.
I’m looking forward to meeting with, learning from, and sharing ideas with the editors, publishers, and writers for that chain. R.C. Hoiles — who was one of the few newspaper publishers in America to oppose the internment of the Japanese during World War II — is one of my personal heroes. (His courageous example is relevant to a talk I’ll be giving on “A Historical Overview of Liberty versus Terror.”) The company is still run by his grandchildren and great grandchildren, who have kept R.C.’s commitment to principle, to justice, freedom, come what may.