Editorial Intern

About the Role

Foundlogue is a new-age editorial platform dedicated to documenting the journeys behind founders and the brands they build. We focus on the story that comes before success: founders' origins, influences, idea genesis, early struggles, first customers, failures, turning points, and the journey of an idea becoming a company. We are building our editorial team and seeking an Editorial Intern – Founder Stories based in Bengaluru.

Key Responsibilities

• Research founders, companies, industries, and relevant background material before interviews.
• Study previous interviews, public profiles, company milestones, and available source material to identify gaps and interesting story angles.
• Prepare founder briefing notes and thoughtful interview questions.
• Participate in founder interviews and gradually take ownership of conducting parts of the conversation.
• Work with interview recordings, transcripts, notes, and supporting documents.
• Identify the strongest moments, turning points, struggles, decisions, and insights from founder conversations.
• Assist in developing long-form founder profiles and feature stories.
• Write and refine sections of stories, headlines, introductions, summaries, and supporting editorial copy.
• Fact-check names, dates, quotations, milestones, claims, and other information before publication.
• Assist with copy editing, proofreading, and maintaining consistency in Foundlogue’s editorial style.
• Help organize founder timelines and inputs for Founder Roadmaps and other visual editorial formats.
• Support podcast and video interview research, briefing, and editorial preparation.
• Maintain research notes, interview records, editorial trackers, and story documentation.
• Contribute ideas for founders, story angles, recurring editorial formats, and future features.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly for transcription, research organization, outlining, and editorial support, while applying human judgment at every stage.

What You'll Learn & Build

• Founder research
• Interview preparation
• Founder conversations
• Long-form feature writing
• Fact-checking and editorial verification
• Copy editing and proofreading
• Founder Roadmaps
• Podcast and video research
• Editorial planning and story development
• AI-assisted newsroom workflows
• Building the editorial standards of an emerging publication
• Interact directly with founders and entrepreneurs to understand their journeys.
• Strong performers may have opportunities for greater editorial ownership and longer-term roles.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools responsibly without compromising originality, accuracy, or editorial judgment.

Qualifications

• Genuinely curious about people, businesses, and the stories behind how things get built.
• Currently pursuing or recently graduated in:
• Journalism
• Mass Communication
• Media Studies
• Communication Studies
• English Literature / English
• Creative Writing
• Business / Economics / Commerce (with strong research and writing skills)
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong research and writing skills.
• Genuine interest in journalism, editorial storytelling, and long-form features.
• Curiosity about founders, entrepreneurship, brands, and businesses.
• Ability to prepare thoughtful questions rather than relying on generic interview templates.
• Good listening skills and confidence to ask follow-up questions.
• Strong fact-checking and attention to detail.
• Understanding of the difference between editorial storytelling and promotional content.
• Ability to organize research, notes, and multiple story assignments.
• Comfort communicating professionally with founders and senior professionals.
• Ability to work independently while taking editorial feedback positively.
• Previous experience with a college publication, newsroom, magazine, blog, podcast, research project, or editorial internship is an advantage, but not mandatory.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid work model in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
• 3-month duration.
• Full-time internship.
• Stipend: ₹15,000 per month.
• Candidates should be based in Bengaluru or willing to relocate.
• Must be comfortable attending in-person editorial meetings, founder interviews, recordings, and other sessions as required.