Internship for journalism students in International Center for Journalists, Washington D.C.

Deadline: 12 September 2011
Open to:  Journalism students
Remuneration: Round trip airfare and housing will be covered for selected interns. Interns will also receive a weekly stipend.

Description

The Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program brings two international students per year to Washington, D.C., to work at the Scripps Howard News Service for a semester. The internship is designed to give international students an opportunity to cover events in the U.S. capital, as well as to report and write feature stories for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire. Stories written by Scripps Howard interns may be published in newspapers across the United States.
Scripps Howard Interns get the opportunity to report on the ins-and-outs of Washington, D.C., even reporting from inside the White House.

Eligibility

The internship is open to undergraduate journalism or communications students who intend to pursue careers in journalism after graduation. Interns must be fluent in both spoken and written English. Interns who are selected in the program will work in one of two periods: January to April or September to December.

Internship

The internship is sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, which strives to advance the cause of a free press through support of excellence in journalism, quality journalism education and professional development. International participants in the program are recruited and selected by the International Center for Journalists, which provides training and other assistance to journalists across the globe.

Round trip airfare and housing will be covered for selected interns. Interns will also receive a weekly stipend.

How to apply?

In order to apply, you need to fill in the application form found here.

The deadline to apply is 12 September 2011 for the January-April 2012 term.

Contacts

International Center for Journalists
1616 H Street, N.W., Third Floor
Washington, D.C. 20006, USA
Tel: 202/737-3700
Fax: 202/737-0530
Claritza 
E. Jiménez, Program Officer
E-mail: cjimenez@icfj.org

The Official Website

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