Applications are open for paid spring and summer journalism internships

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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.

Sept. 8

ProPublica (Various Locations)

  • Emerging Reporters Program — ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, is offering five stipends to college students of color. Those applying should work or want to work at college journalism outlets: newspapers, websites, radio stations or TV stations. Those selected will work from their college towns but will be brought to ProPublica’s newsroom in New York for a week. 

Sept. 10

Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, D.C.)

  • Editorial Internship — The Chronicle of Higher Education is looking for an early-career or aspiring journalist to become a full-time reporter for its spring 2020 internship. You will report on news concerning higher education across the country. The internship runs from January to early May.

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. 4

Texas Tribune (Various Locations)

  • Spring Reporting Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Any fellowship listed for the Texas Tribune is for students. Ideal candidates will have experience reporting and writing on deadline and an interest in covering state policy topics like health, education, immigration, criminal justice and the environment, as well as the state’s changing demographics. Previous fellows have written about everything from a fight at the Legislature over the use of public restrooms to the question of whether a Brexit-style Texit could ever happen.
  • Spring Reporting Fellowship (Washington, D.C.) —The Washington, D.C., reporting fellow works alongside Bureau Chief Abby Livingston to cover the 38-member Texas congressional delegation, U.S. House and Senate elections, and the biggest Texas news in the nation’s capital.
  • Spring Art Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — The Texas Tribune is seeking digital creatives who have experience using the Adobe Creative Suite to produce design and digital illustration. 
  • Spring Engineering Fellowship (Austin, Texas) —The Tribune’s six-person engineering team is seeking a candidate with experience with JavaScript or Python, as well as a mix of experience with Git, web technologies/standards (HTML+CSS) and data processing/analysis. Specific projects will be informed by the skills and interests of the fellow, but themes might include work with automated testing and Continuous Integration, ETL processing, and site performance and accessibility standards.
  • Spring Engagement Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Work for this position may include packaging Tribune stories for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, contributing to our daily newsletters, helping produce live discussions for our readers and pitching and editing short-form videos or other original content for social readers.
  • Spring Events Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — The fellow will be responsible for crafting event listings, devising and executing an event promotional strategy and managing event production tasks.
  • Spring Marketing and Communications Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — The fellow will be responsible for building relationships with Texas and national media, devising a plan for distributing Tribune content and managing editorial partnerships and in-kind Texas Tribune Festival partnerships. The fellow will also write media materials including releases, pitches and promotional copy for investigations and projects.
  • Spring Multimedia Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Do everything from creating zippy social media shorts to live streaming breaking news to assisting with long-form documentaries. Pitch, shoot and edit exciting Texas news stories for an engaged online audience. 
  • Spring Photography Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Assignments may range from a portrait of a political candidate to a protest at the state Capitol to a farm that’s affected by state policy.

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. 15

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 Journalism Internship — The Boston Globe is looking for any current undergraduate student, graduating seniors or graduate student with no previous experience to apply for its summer internship program. Most interns are placed as general assignment news reporters, but some are hired for the sports, business and arts departments. Positions in the photography department and on the news copy desk are also available.

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.

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.

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. 

Nov. 15

Texas Tribune (Various Locations)

  • Summer Reporting Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Any fellowship listed for the Texas Tribune is for students. Ideal candidates will have experience reporting and writing on deadline and an interest in covering state policy topics like health, education, immigration, criminal justice and the environment, as well as the state’s changing demographics. Previous fellows have written about everything from a fight at the Legislature over the use of public restrooms to the question of whether a Brexit-style Texit could ever happen.
  • Summer Reporting Fellowship (Washington, D.C.) —The Washington, D.C., reporting fellow works alongside Bureau Chief Abby Livingston to cover the 38-member Texas congressional delegation, U.S. House and Senate elections, and the biggest Texas news in the nation’s capital.
  • Summer Art Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — The Texas Tribune is seeking digital creatives who have experience using the Adobe Creative Suite to produce design and digital illustration. 
  • Summer Engineering Fellowship (Austin, Texas) —The Tribune’s six-person engineering team is seeking a candidate with experience with JavaScript or Python, as well as a mix of experience with Git, web technologies/standards (HTML+CSS) and data processing/analysis. Specific projects will be informed by the skills and interests of the fellow, but themes might include work with automated testing and Continuous Integration, ETL processing, and site performance and accessibility standards.
  • Summer Engagement Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Work for this position may include packaging Tribune stories for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, contributing to our daily newsletters, helping produce live discussions for our readers and pitching and editing short-form videos or other original content for social readers.
  • Summer Events Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — The fellow will be responsible for crafting event listings, devising and executing an event promotional strategy and managing event production tasks.
  • Summer Marketing and Communications Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — The fellow will be responsible for building relationships with Texas and national media, devising a plan for distributing Tribune content and managing editorial partnerships and in-kind Texas Tribune Festival partnerships. The fellow will also write media materials including releases, pitches and promotional copy for investigations and projects.
  • Summer Multimedia Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Do everything from creating zippy social media shorts to live streaming breaking news to assisting with long-form documentaries. Pitch, shoot and edit exciting Texas news stories for an engaged online audience. 
  • Summer Photography Fellowship (Austin, Texas) — Assignments may range from a portrait of a political candidate to a protest at the state Capitol to a farm that’s affected by state policy.

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_severino

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