It takes journalistic skill to spot good selections for HNN. How do you learn? By doing.

It’s a trial and error approach.

But ask yourself what somebody who is interested in history would want to know.

Think of yourself as an editor at the New York Times whose job is to keep on top of what historians are thinking and talking about — and what the culture at large is doing with history.  That's a good start.  The idea is to get inside the head of our audience and figure out what they'd want.  

This is an important skill set to acquire.  For what do writers and journalists always have to keep in mind?  WHO THEIR AUDIENCE IS. 

Who is our audience?

It's teachers, historians, history buffs, and journalists.  Some read HNN to put the news into historical perspective, some simply because they like reading what thoughtful people (historians) are thinking, even if a particular article is not expressly about a topic on which they are bringing to bear the full weight of their historical knowledge base.

Send each article in a separate email.  Send the article to:  editor@hnn.us.  

That's it!

• Intern A
• Intern B
• Intern C
• Intern D
• Intern E
• Intern F

A. (Newspapers)

1. New York Times
2. Wall Street Journal
3. Washington Post
4. Christian Science Monitor
5. Philadelphia Inquirer
6. Guardian (UK)
7. Irish Times
8. Los Angeles Times
9. Telegraph (UK)
10. Belfast Telegraph (UK)
11. The Global and Mail (Canada)
12. The Australian
13. Sydney Morning Herald (AU)
14. The Hindu (India)

B.

1. Foreign Policy
2. The Atlantic
3. Slate
4. Foreign Affairs
5. The Nation
6. The New Republic
7. National Review
8. The Weekly Standard
9. Tablet Magazine
10. Reason.com
11. Dissent Magazine
12. Commentary Magazine
13. Newsweek/The Daily Beast
14. American Conservative
15. American Prospect
16. National Journal
17. The American Interest

C.

1. Truthout
2. openDemocracy
3. Truthdig
4. Foreign Policy in Focus
5. Mother Jones
6. New Yorker
7. Talking Points Memo
8. Juan Cole
9. History and Policy (UK)
10. Tabsir.net
11. The China Beat
12. BBC History Magazine
13. Common-place
14. American Heritage
15. Martin Kramer on the Middle East
16. Legal History Blog
17. Chronicle of Higher Education
18. New York Review of Books
19. Inside Higher Ed

D.

1. American Spectator
2. PJ Media
3. National Association of Scholars
4. Federation of American Scientists: Project on Gov't Secrecy
5. Village Voice
6. Raritan: A Quarterly Review
7. Lapham Quarterly
8. Graham Hancock: News on Archeology
9. LiveScience History
10. BBC News
11. Independent (UK)
12. Reuters
13. UPI
14. Radio Free Europe
15. International Herald Tribune
16. Archaeology News
17. Science Daily
18. Discovery News
19. National Geographic
20. History.com

E.

1. CNN
2. Fox News
3. Stone Pages
4. Civil War News
5. National Parks Traveler
6. National Endowment for the Humanities
7. New York Magazine
8. Michael Novak
9. City Journal
10. Wilson Quarterly
11. History Now
12. Accuracy in Academia
13. Archaeologica News
14. SHAEFR News
15. AtlanticWire
16. Independent China News
17. Education Week
18. The New Criterion
19. The Jamestown Foundation
20. The Root

F.

1. Time Magazine
2. Dissident Voice
3. Counterpunch
4. Harper's Magazine
5. Washington Monthly
6. The Hill
7. Huffington Post
8. Arts & Letters Daily
9. RealClearHistory
10. Alternet
11. Media Matters
12. Democracy Now!
13. Voice of America
14. Washington Times
15. Washington Decoded