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Every month, the Student Press Law Center publishes a list of paid journalism internships. Here are more than 30 spring and summer internships with upcoming deadlines. 

Did we miss any? Email SPLC reporter Joe Severino to add an internship.

Student Press Law Center, (Washington, D.C.)

• Journalism Internship — Join our small and scrappy team! The Student Press Law Center is seeking accomplished college journalists for paid internships in Washington, D.C. We’re seeking self-starting storytellers to chronicle student media organizations in perilous times, recognize trends in student media and help SPLC expand its audience and impact. Applications due Oct. 15 for spring 2020.

Oct. 1 

POLITICO (Rosslyn, Virginia)

  • Spring Editorial Internship — POLITICO is seeking college juniors, seniors or recent graduates for spring 2020 reporting internship positions. The internship runs from January to May 2020. 

Oct. 8 

Washington Post 

  • Summer Newsroom Internships — The Washington Post is offering internships to college juniors, seniors and graduate students for Summer 2020. There are reporting, editorial, photo, video, audio, designers, digital, graphics, social media and multiplatform internships available.

Oct. 13

Pulitzer Center (Washington, D.C.)

  • Spring General Internship — General interns at the Pulitzer Center will be responsible for maintaining the organization’s website, contributing to social media pages, coordinating events that promote the work of the center’s journalists, write blog posts related to reporting content, events and news about the Pulitzer Center and more.
  • Spring Education Internship — The Center’s education team works with middle and high schools, as well as universities, to bring pressing international issues, and the journalists who cover them, into the classroom. Responsibilities include working closely with journalists and journalism outlets to provide lesson plans linked directly to the reporting when it’s published, documenting education program activities through blog posts, podcasts, video and other media and more.

Oct. 15

Association for Women in Sports Media (Various Locations)

  • Summer Sports Journalism Internship — AWSM will award up to eight female college students a $1,000 scholarship and placement in a paid internship in four fields: sportswriting, broadcast production, social media and media relations.Last year’s interns spent their summers at ESPN, USA Softball, the Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, MLB.com, Turner Sports and USA Today. The summer 2020 placements will be announced at a later date.

The Baltimore Sun

  • Summer Journalism Internship — This reporting internship will be open to rising college seniors, graduate-level students or 2020 graduates studying journalism. The intern selected will have extensive journalism experience, either as a student journalist, as an intern at a newspaper or a combination of both. Depending on the candidate’s skills and interests, the internship may focus on reporting, visual journalism or data journalism.

Oct. 30

POLITICO (Rosslyn, Virginia)

  • Summer Editorial Internship — POLITICO is seeking college juniors, seniors or recent graduates for a summer 2020 reporting internship position. The internship runs from June 1 to Aug. 21.

Oct. 31

Denver Post 

  • Summer Journalism Internships — The Denver Post is looking for a city desk reporting intern, a features reporting intern and a photography intern for the summer of 2020. Applicants should have completed junior year.

Miami Herald

  • Summer Newsroom Internships — The Miami Herald is offering internships in news, business, features and sports reporting, visuals copy editing, design and multimedia. Most interns come during the summer, but candidates can also apply to intern in the fall or winter.

Nov. 1 

Boston Globe

  • Summer Reporting Internship — Intern reporters are hired for the Sports, Living/Arts and Business departments. There is a writing coach for the reporting interns. Open to all undergraduate students and graduating seniors.
  • Summer Photography Internship — Interns will work alongside the Globe’s photography team and have discussions with editors and staff on a range of journalism topics. Open to all undergraduate students and graduating seniors.
  • Summer Copy Editing Internship — Interns will work on the news copy desk and  have discussions with editors and staff on a range of journalism topics. Open to all undergraduate students and graduating seniors.

Chicago Tribune 

  • Summer Newsroom Internship — The Chicago Tribune’s newsroom internship program seeks college juniors, seniors and graduate students for 12-week paid internships. To be eligible, candidates must have completed at least one internship at a daily news organization other than their college paper. There are also internships available for strictly editorial writing.

Los Angeles Times (Various Locations)

  • Reporting Internships (Los Angeles) — Reporting interns will be placed throughout the L.A. Times: Metro, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Business, Editorial Pages, Foreign/National, Features (Fashion, Food, Travel, Home Design, Mind and Body) and in its Sacramento bureau. 
  • Political Reporting Internship (Washington, D.C.) — This political reporting internship is for the L.A. Times is based in the newspaper’s Washington, D.C. bureau. 

NBC News and MSNBC (New York)

  • Production Spring 2020 Internships — NBC News and MSNBC are searching for college students who have completed more than 30 credit hours and possess at least a 3.0 GPA for multiple internship positions. Opportunities can include production for NBC Network News, TODAY, Dateline, Nightly News, MSNBC Dayside, Primetime and weekends, as well as positions in booking, investigations, assignment desk, breaking news and more.

Seattle Times

  • Summer Copy Editing Internship — Applicants must have strong language skills and some editing experience on multiple platforms. Finalists will be required to take a copy editing test. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.
  • Summer David Boardman Investigative Reporting Internship — Applicants must have strong reporting, writing and public records research skills.

Data skills a plus. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.

  • Summer Digital and Interactive Internship —  Applicants must have some prior programming experience (JavaScript preferred) and familiarity with HTML/CSS. Knowledge of WordPress, Excel, and/or SQL a plus. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.
  • Summer Features Internship — Applicants should have some specialized knowledge of at least one of the following subject areas: arts & entertainment; travel & outdoors; food & drink; and/or lifestyle trends. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.
  • Summer Graphics Internship — Applicants must have strong computer, drawing, and data visualization skills. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.
  • Summer Metro Reporting Internship — Applicants should have strong reporting, writing and multimedia skills. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.
  • Summer Photojournalism Internship — Applicants must have their own personal photo equipment and personal vehicle. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.
  • Summer Sports Reporting Internship — Applicants must have strong sports knowledge, as well as reporting, writing and multimedia skills. Applicants must have a personal vehicle. Open to juniors and seniors (including graduating seniors!) attending a four-year college or university, as well as graduate students.

Slate (Various Locations) 

  • Winter Editorial Internship (New York) — Candidates for the New York editorial internship must be available to work in Slate’s Brooklyn, New York office up to 40 hours per week. They must be highly organized, have a proven interest in the arts and be very familiar with Slate’s Culture section.
  • Spring Editorial Internship (Washington, D.C,) — Interns for Slate’s editorial internship will assist in research as well as contributing to other live chats and stories. Slate is looking for someone available to work 20 to 40 hours a week, which can be scheduled around classes.

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

  • Summer Metro Reporting Internship — The Star Tribune is looking for an intern to work as a reporter on the metro desk. They require at least one prior professional internship.
  • Summer Sports Reporting Internship — The Star Tribune is looking for an intern to work as a reporter on the sports desk. They require at least one prior professional internship.
  • Summer Features Reporting Internship — The Star Tribune is looking for an intern to work as a reporter on the features desk. They require at least one prior professional internship.
  • Summer Business Reporting Internship — The Star Tribune is looking for an intern to work as a business reporter. They require at least one prior professional internship.
  • Summer Copy Editing Internship — The Star Tribune is looking for an intern to work on the copy editing desk. Work shifts are evenings and weekends. They require at least one prior professional internship.
  • Summer Photo and Video Internship — Candidates for the position should show a strong, developing visual sense for still photography. They should have experience shooting video with a DSLR and dealing with lighting, as well as a dedicated video camera and video editing skills. Knowledge of audio production is an advantage.
  • Summer Digital Audience Producer Internship — Candidates should have familiarity with digital content management systems, or the ability to learn such skills quickly. Candidates should understand social media best practices for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, at minimum.
  • Summer Print Design Internship — Candidates should have newsroom deadline experience designing news, sports, business or features pages. Some knowledge of Adobe InDesign is required, and knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is a bonus. Digital design experience is a plus. Shifts include evenings and weekends.

Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Florida)

  • Summer Newsroom Internship — Sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students are welcome to apply to the Tampa Bay Times newsroom internship for summer 2020. Internships are available in all departments.

The Wall Street Journal (Various Locations) 

  • U.S. Reporting Internship (New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship to report news from one of four U.S. cities. Depending on the location, interns will report on a variety of topics unique to that region.
  • Data Reporting Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s data reporting team. Working with reporters around the world, you will be immersed in data-driven stories and gain hands-on experience analyzing millions (or billions) of rows of data using tools like Excel, SQL, Python and R. Applicants should be excited at the prospect of battling FOIA officers, scraping poorly formed websites and learning to write computer code that ferrets out fraud.
  • Data Science Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s data science team. The intern is a computational journalist who will work with the WSJ Lab, a multi-disciplinary team that supports the newsroom with experimentation and research. You will work on developing new approaches for storytelling and defining best practices for algorithmic accountability reporting.
  • F. James Pensiero Reporting Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is looking for a current student or recent graduate who intends to pursue a career in business and financial journalism to work in New York for a summer internship. Preference for the scholarship internship will be given to University of Oregon students, though it is open to those from any state school in the United States. Students majoring in business journalism or journalism with a second major or minor in economics or business will have an edge.
  • Graphics Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s graphic team. The Graphics department is responsible for driving innovative storytelling with graphics, interactives, data journalism and newsroom apps that are created for digital and print.
  • Magazine Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s magazine staff. The WSJ is seeking interns pursuing a career in magazine journalism with sharp instincts for feature and lifestyle coverage and an interest in and appreciation for photography and design. 
  • Photo Editing Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s photo team. While active photographers are welcome to the department, the majority of the work during the internship will be in daily photo editing and department production assistance.
  • Podcast Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship for the newspaper’s podcast. It’s designed for students who intend to pursue a career in audio journalism. 
  • Product Design Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s product design team. As a member of the product design team, you will be a voice and advocate for users of the website and apps, learning about their goals, desires and preferences.
  • Science and Health Reporting Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking undergraduates, recent graduates or graduate students who intend a career in science or health journalism to intern with the Journal’s health and science bureau in New York. 
  • Video Internship (New York) — The Wall Street Journal is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for a 10-week internship on the newspaper’s video team. It’s designed for students who intend to pursue a career in video journalism.

Nov. 4 

The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)

  • Summer Newsroom Internship — The Oklahoman is looking for interns to assist in the following areas: breaking news, the watchdog team, sports, business, features, niche publications, photography, video, online communities, graphics or audience engagement. 

Did we miss any? Send internship information to SPLC reporter Joe Severino by email at jseverino@splc.org or call 202-974-6318. Follow him on Twitter at @jj_severinoWant more stories like this? The Student Press Law Center is a legal and educational nonprofit defending the rights of student journalists. Sign up for our occ