The Class of 2011 has hit the ground running (and blogging) at summer internships that are more far-flung, and more varied, than ever.

Seventeen of the 87 students are interning abroad in 12 countries — including Canada, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Liberia, and Singapore. Among the internship partners overseas: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in Winnipeg, The New York Times in New Delhi, and Fox News in Jerusalem.

“From the start, it has been very hands-on — they threw me into reporting,” said Carmel Delshad, who is working in Cairo for NPR. “And it has been a great exercise of my Arabic skills.”

Students also fanned out across the U.S. –- to The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, for example, and to CBS in San Francisco. They’re working around the block, too, for such New York City outlets as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Scientific American, PBS’s “Need to Know,” Al-Jazeera English, NY1 News, Barron’s, Crain’s New York Business, and Bloomberg News.

As in the past, some students won their internships through official competitions. Selly Thiam is a Carnegie Summer Fellow at ABC News’ investigative unit, Matt Draper landed a Dow Jones News Fund internship on The New York Post’s sports desk, and Tamy Cozier was selected for an Eddie Pinder “Nightline” Fellowship at ABC. Cozier said “Nightline” wasted no time putting her to work. For a June piece about “extreme” proms, she said, ”I went out with a producer and even got to shoot a little bit of b-roll.”

For the first time, students are experimenting with made-to-order internships — apprenticing with reporters and photographers or splitting their workweeks between two outlets. Dara Sharif divides her time between the New York bureau of TheRoot.com — a Washington Post site that covers African-American news, culture, and opinion — and Voices That Must Be Heard, an online publication recently acquired by the CUNY J-School that highlights stories from New York City’s ethnic and community press.

For her three days a week at The Root, Sharif said, “I’m writing and also sitting in on meetings where the editorial management analyzes real-time page views and unique visits to the site. I’m at Voices the other two days, curating and editing articles. Together, the two give me a full picture of the needs at both levels of journalism—national and local.”

Here’s the complete list of 2011 summer internships:

234NEXT (Lagos, Nigeria)

ABC News, Eddie Pinder “Nightline” Fellow

ABC News, Carnegie Fellow “Brian Ross investigative unit”

Afar magazine

Al Jazeera English

Al Masry Al Yom, Cairo

Al-Ahram Online, Cairo

AllMediaNY.com

APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), Winnipeg

Barron’s

Black Enterprise

Bloomberg

Bloomberg Singapore

Brooklyn Community Access TV

Business Insider

CANAL 15, Costa Rica

CBS5, “Eye on the Bay,” San Francisco

Christian Science Monitor

CNN Showbiz

Complex.com

Country Living magazine

Crain’s New York Business (4)

Creative Loafing, Charlotte NC

DNAinfo.com

Edible Manhattan

El Diario

Field and Stream

Fox News, Jerusalem

Global Post, South Africa

Grio.com

Hindustan Times, Delhi

The Hollywood Reporter

Jakarta Globe, Indonesia (3)

Kyiv Post, Ukraine

LA Downtown News

Manhattan Media

Mott Haven Herald / Hunts Point Express

NBC Local Integrated Media (2)

NBC News, New York

NBC News, Orlando

Newark Star-Ledger

Newsweek International

New Narratives, Liberia

New York Daily News (4)

New York Post, Sports Desk

New York Press

The New York Times

The New York Times, Delhi bureau

The New York Times – The Local (4)

The New York Times Video

NPR All Songs Considered

NPR, Cairo bureau

NPR Science Friday

NY1 (4)

The Observer

PBS, “Need to Know”

PBS, POV

Remedy.com

TheRoot.com

The Santiago Times, Chile

Scientific American

The Times-Picayune

Vanity Fair

Vice

WeightWatchers.com

WNYC, Brian Lehrer Show

Woman’s Day