Journalism Mentors Partners with Lone Star EMMY Chapter to Expand Mentorship Opportunities
The collaboration will connect Lone Star EMMY members with aspiring journalists.
What journalism interns think of remote internships
A few weeks ago, we asked student journalists to tell us about their summer experience as internships moved online due to the pandemic. We received more than 50 responses from students across the country. While this is a fraction of the hundreds of hardworking journalism interns who told important stories for communities, we wanted to […]
Tell Us About Your Summer Internship Plans
Summer 2020 has been an odd one, with many internships moved online and many canceled. Given the unique environment in which media internships have operated, we at Journalism Internships want to get a sense of what’s gone well in your remote internship and what future interns and industry leaders might be able to learn from […]
Save Student Newsrooms Day of Action: Saturday, April 25
The work students journalists are doing today, serving their communities in the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis is extraordinary. Under normal circumstances, you publish stories online and/or in print with a barebones staff and limited resources, fueled by passion and caffeine. Now, you’re covering campuses and universities that students have been told to […]
Incorporating Instagram in your newsroom strategy
With students attending university remotely, one of the most important ways to reach your audience is through social media. I had to chance to catch up with Noah Riffe, a sophomore studying journalism and political science at Penn State University. He works for The Daily Collegian, the university’s independent student newspaper as a photojournalist and […]
Apply for the Instagram Local News Fellowship
The Facebook Journalism Project and the Reynolds Journalism Institute have opened applications for the Instagram Local News Fellowship. The fellowship started as a pilot program last summer, when the first class of fellows spent ten weeks in three newsrooms — The Boston Globe, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. This year, awarded fellows will be placed in […]
Journalism Internships with a November 2019 Deadline
It’s almost November, which means that deadlines are approaching for many spring and summer journalism internships. The internships below all have November deadlines. Nervous about applying? Have questions about how to stand out as a candidate? Consider booking some time with one of our 80+ media mentors. Curious about how other students landed their summer […]
How I Landed That: Omar Abdel-Baqui
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series on The Blog called “How I Landed That,” where we chat with students who have completed big-time internships around the country, and around the globe. Omar Abdel-Baqui is currently a reporting news intern at the Detroit Free Press and a member of Wayne State University’s class […]
Introducing Media Mentors
Journalism Internships is expanding with a mentorship program aimed at helping college students and early-career media professionals build networks and get feedback from those established in the media industry. Media Mentors is a mentoring program from journalism-internships.com, a website dedicated to fostering the next generation of media leaders. The mentors, from organizations including the Washington […]
How I Landed That: Charlie McGee
Journalism Internships is pleased to announce a new series on The Blog called “How I Landed That,” where we chat with students who have completed big-time internships around the country, and around the globe. Kicking off our inaugural piece is Charlie McGee, a class of 2020 student at UNC-Chapel Hill. On campus, he’s the director […]