Due date: Monday February 24, 2025, 5PM
Interested in learning key skills to help you break into the journalism industry more easily after graduation?
Next Generation Newsroom, a project of Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation, and newsrooms in the Pittsburgh Media Partnership -- a group of more than 30 media outlets in the greater Pittsburgh area -- seek motivated student journalists for the Summer 2025 Internship Program. This internship is intended to give students with a serious interest in a journalism career — particularly those who are underrepresented in the industry — an opportunity to learn on the job, improve their portfolio and leverage the experience so that they can break into the industry more easily after graduation.
Some of the interns selected for the program will work with Next Generation Newsroom, a news service that launched to fulfill the need for high-quality enterprise reporting for people who want to stay informed about the place they call home. The focus of NGN's work is government and enterprise reporting in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The stories that the Newsroom develops are shared across the 32 members of the Pittsburgh Media Partnership, which has a combined reach of more than 9 million.
Other interns will be placed in local PMP newsrooms and will work on day-to-day assignments with the editors of those organizations. Both NGN and PMP interns will get access to additional fellowship, networking, and learning opportunities. Interns will meet as a group each week to share their work and provide updates on how their internships are progressing.
The internship is paid at $15/hour, up to 30 hours a week. It will last 10 weeks between late May and early August 2025.
Visit this link for more details and to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScujMJEew-fgfnyMyK3J9pcTKP6BrQCyE8Z_YgQAqdddHRbKw/viewform?pli=1.
Application deadline: 5:00 pm, Monday, Feb. 24