Atlantic Media took the NY Times Internship piece to heart and is not only paying their current batch of interns, but is also offering retroactive pay to those who worked last year, reports Jeff Bercovici at the DailyFinance. Too bad most of the work is located in DC.

In NYC, Buzzfeed is offering some cash for what looks like it might be a pretty cool viral media internship.

Scallywag and Vagabond is looking for unpaid interns who are willing to devote 20 hours a week to the publication.

One prospective intern decided to take those Scallywags to task, posting a response:

RE:Widely Read Cultural Mag seeks Intern(s) (NYC)

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Date: 2010-04-06, 5:38PM EDT
Reply to: see below

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When trying to impress us young, starry-eyed college students with your media prowess in order for us to willingly give our time away to you unpaid, it would do well to have someone check your grammar.

Who needs training from a "professional" who doesn't know how to use commas?
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Maybe there will be an intern uprising, a revolution of the inexperienced.  Until then,  I'm racking up the delivery shifts and thinking about heading to work over at the Cupcake Truck for some care-free summertime fun.