John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford
Application Deadline: Jan. 15, 2025
Applicants should be prepared to step back from professional obligations to devote themselves to this work and to fellowship programming we’ve designed to help them develop the leadership resilience needed for these times of uncertainty.
You should apply if you:
- Want to grow as a journalist and leader and believe that your best work is ahead of you.
- Are excited about the opportunity to be coached through a deep examination of your mindset, your perception of yourself and your place in journalism.
- Yearn to be “in fellowship” with a group of other journalists from varied professional and personal backgrounds.
- Seek, embrace and prioritize diversity.
- Are ready to set aside current work responsibilities and dig into a 9-month journey of professional and personal exploration.
- Are committed to being in journalism.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Application Deadline: Nov. 22, 2024
Students selected as interns will work full time for 10 weeks, sometimes more, in summer 2025. Applications are due by Nov. 22, 2024.
To apply, please assemble a packet that includes:
- A short letter describing your background, career goals and internship objectives.
- A resume with three journalism-related references.
- Up to five clips. Photography and multimedia candidates should submit links containing single pictures, videos, a photo story or multimedia.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Application Deadline: Nov. 20, 2024
As an intern, you’d be a full-time reporter in our newsroom, in Washington, DC. Interns work primarily on daily-news coverage and also have opportunities to pursue more ambitious stories and contribute to newsroom projects. Click these links for some examples of our past interns’ work. Pay is $21.34 per hour before taxes.
Our internship is a hybrid role based in our DC office. Remote internship opportunities are available outside of the DC area for those residing in VA, MD, MI, WA, TX, FL, NC, NY, and NJ. Reach out to Sarah Brown (sarah.brown@chronicle.com) if you have questions about this policy.
The internship is not designed for full-time students. Our program typically involves working Monday to Friday during normal business hours. If you’re taking just one or two courses, email sarah.brown@chronicle.com, and we can discuss whether our program will work for your schedule.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Undergraduate or graduate studies and prior experience writing or producing published clips, such as articles, links to articles, links to multimedia projects, or any other kind of reporting project, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Some prior experience in a newsroom, be it in a college publication or professional.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of MS Office applications, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong organizational and verbal communication skills with keen attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Strong, clear written communication skills.
- Ability to learn quickly.
- Ability to complete reporting assignments from an editor and meet established deadlines.
2025 National Hearst Journalism Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: Jan. 6, 2025
- One-page resume that includes academic major and minor, date or expected date of graduation, permanent and current addresses, email, website, and social media addresses
- One additional page that include hot links to digital work samples
- Cover letter no longer than two pages highlighting your qualifications and making your case for becoming a Hearst Fellow
- Three work references including titles, email addresses and phone numbers
- Two letters of recommendation. These need to be emailed separately to fellowships@hearstnp.com
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. for the entire 2-year term of the Fellowship Program. At this time, we will not be sponsoring or taking over the sponsorship of an employment visa for candidates of the Fellowship Program.
New York Times Fellowship
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
All fellows work full time, in either the newsroom or the Opinion section. They are paid and receive benefits and gain access to training, speakers and a writing coach. The program is set to begin on June 2, 2025.
The most competitive candidates will be journalists who have newsroom or equivalent experience and a track record of strong, independent journalism. Applicants with more than five years of professional journalism experience beyond internships will not be considered.
The Athletic
Audience Student Intern, Summer 2025 (Remote)
Application Deadline: November 8, 2024.
The rate of pay for this role is $20.00 USD per hour.
- Push Notifications: Learning how to structure, target and write push notifications for both local and league audiences.
- SEO: Learning the basics of SEO from URL structure, headline optimization, breaking news moments and planning opportunities.
- Social Media: Understanding the social platforms and their different use cases at The Athletic, as well as learning how to write social copy across platforms and prepping content and reacting to live and breaking news moments.
- Programming: Learning both The Athletic’s custom and algorithmic homepage, as well as programming on NYT surfaces and promotional efforts and strategies on both.
- Reporting and Insights: Executing detailed reporting on planned tentpole events [example: NFL Summit] as well as breaking news stories [example: Davante Adams trade] to provide insight to the newsroom on wins and opportunities to improve.
Creative Development Student Intern, Summer 2025 (Remote)
Application Deadline: November 8, 2024.
The rate of pay for this role is $20.00 USD per hour.
- Participate in audio and video brainstorming sessions to develop innovative and ambitious ideas with the goal of having at least one of those ideas come to life.
- Attend and contribute to daily/weekly audio and video production calls.
- Provide key research and background for podcast and video hosts.
- Work with audio producers to create rundowns and show notes.
- Assist in audio and video post-production process.
- Collaborate with the newsroom on upcoming audio and video plans.
- Shadow and assist an audio or video producer throughout the entire process of creating a podcast episode or social video series.
- Accompany production crews into the field to help gather content (location dependent)
- Shadow and assist video design team on their process for developing video-specific visuals
- Report, write and edit for our written editorial teams (Collectibles, Fantasy, newsletters).
Dow Jones News Fund Internship
Application Deadline: Nov. 14
Time Commitment: Summer 2025
The News Fund will select college journalists for internships with more than 70 newsrooms across the country. Those selected will also benefit from week-long, pre-internship training, $1,500 scholarships, memberships to journalism groups and access to the DJNF alumni network for jobs and mentoring.
To be considered, students must apply by Nov. 14, and take a timed, online qualifying test. There are five training programs that align with work interns will be doing over the summer. Students may indicate their interest in one or more programs:
Audience Engagement: Audience engagement internships vary by newsroom, but the mission always remain the same—help the news find its audience. From writing SEO-friendly headlines and producing engaging content for video and social to crafting newsletters and seizing on trending topics on social media, job expectations vary. Previous internship placements include: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Kansas City Star, The Marshall Project and Detroit Free Press.
Business Reporting: We place reporters in more than 30 newsrooms covering a wide variety of topics from Wall Street to Main Street, including the stock market, new businesses and entrepreneurs, labor unions, minority-owned businesses, real estate, climate change, agriculture and automotive industries. Previous internship placements include: The Wall Street Journal, American City Business Journals, Barron’s, Insider, Fortune, American Banker, Detroit News and Automotive News.
Data Journalism: There are three different types of data internships we usually place interns in: 1) heavy emphasis on filing records requests and analyzing data using spreadsheets; 2) reporting and writing using government data or assisting investigative reporting projects; and 3) using coding and technical tools to build apps and interactive visuals for news stories. Previous internship placements include: The Marshall Project, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The Wall Street Journal, Connecticut Mirror, Inside Climate News and Investigate Midwest.
Digital Media: Working as a digital media intern means many different things, depending on the newsroom. You could be working in print, social, video, audio or all of it. Interns receive across-the-board training so they can expand their skill sets using the latest technology and storytelling techniques. Previous internship placements include: Arizona Republic, Hawaii Public Radio, CalMatters, Kansas City Star and Epicenter-NYC
Multiplatform Editing: Editors are the final check on a story before it is published. Multiplatform editing interns assess copy for accuracy, completeness, tone and style while also writing SEO-friendly headlines and designing pages on deadline. Previous internship placements include: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Stars & Stripes and San Francisco Chronicle.
DJNF will host two information sessions about the application and selection process, as well as two test prep sessions. Students or faculty can sign up here to attend or to request recordings. College faculty can use the same form to request a virtual visit from a DJNF representative to speak to students.
College sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students enrolled full-time on Nov. 14 are eligible to apply, including December graduates. U.S. students studying abroad and international students already in the U.S. with work visas are also eligible.
After applying, students will receive an email from HireVue with the link to the timed, online test to be completed within 72 hours. Students can prepare for the test by taking practice tests found here.
The Living Church Foundation Reporter
Time Commitment: 12 hours per week
Salary: Competitive
Applicants should send a resume and three samples of recent newswriting to Mark Michael, editor-in-chief, mmichael@livingchurch.org.
Corporate Communications & External Relations
IBM Careers
Your Role and Responsibilities
Start and end dates for this internship are during Summer 2025.
At IBM, we believe technology shapes the world, and we are a catalyst for innovation and creativity. We are at the forefront of groundbreaking change – improving businesses, society, and the human condition. As a leader in Hybrid Cloud and AI, we are leading the charge in a worldwide digital transformation.
Our Marketing, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC) team tells this story and is responsible for positioning IBM in the market. We define and optimize IBM’s brand, capture the market’s attention, and articulate our point of view for clients, partners, the media, and even other IBMers. As part of our team, you’ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our audience to choose IBM’s products and services.
When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. You join a team of IBMers who are helping technology support a positive global transformation. So join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.
As an IBM Corporate Communications Intern, you’ll work collaboratively, driving work that addresses a strategic IBM Marketing business challenge. In addition to your project work, the internship includes educational, networking, and social activities. Between project work and intern programming, you’ll get to touch a variety of areas within Marketing and Communications. At the end of program, you’ll have the opportunity to showcase your final outcomes to a large audience of Business Leaders and Practitioners across the organization. This is a highly visible intern program with leadership exposure and mentorship throughout the summer.
As Corporate Communications & External Relations professionals, our mission is to accelerate IBM’s growth by advancing and defending IBM’s reputation, persuading external and internal audiences, and driving brand consideration. We do this by illustrating IBM’s strategy, innovation and industry leadership wit h clients, investors, media, analysts, employees, policy influencers, and other key stakeholders. As a Corporate Communications & External Relations intern, you may:
- Support corporate-level media relations and thought leadership efforts on behalf of finance, CSR, HR, and sports and entertainment
- Drive the story around IBM offerings, services, and capabilities using strategic communications tactics tied to key market moments and events, market trends, and client needs
- Develop messaging and fact-based-arguments that differentiate IBM’s products and business to drive greater awareness and consideration
This role may be based in New York, NY or Austin, TX.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Currently enrolled in an accredited University
- Available for an internship in Summer 2025
- Rising senior for the 2025-2026 school year
- Passionate about Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Writing, or a related field
- Fluent in English; strong written and verbal communication skills