"Employers have shown great interest in hiring a CUNY J-School intern," said Ellen Walterscheid, the School's Director of Career Services. "They like the idea of a public graduate school for journalists, and know that our students are being trained on the latest equipment in a multimedia curriculum."

Students have received internship offers from a wide range of media organizations, from major magazines and broadcast companies to community newspapers and websites, in New York City and beyond.

Here are the latest summer offers the School's students have received:

• ABC News: Be Seen, Be Heard
• ABC News: Brian Ross Investigative Unit - Carnegie Corporation internship
• ABC News business unit
• Black Entertainment Television
• Black Star News
• Bloomberg Television
• Brainwash, Doublethink - National Journalism Center internship
• Brooklyn Independent Television
• The Brooklyn Paper
• Business Week
• BusinessWeek.com
• CNN en Español
• The Christian Science Monitor - New York bureau
• City Hall News
• City Limits
• (N.Y.) Daily News business desk
• (N.Y.) Daily News city desk
• (N.Y.) Daily News sports desk
• Democracy Now!
• Detroit Free Press (copy editing)
• ESPN
• ESPN The Magazine & ESPN.com
• IraqSlogger.com
• LivesinFocus.org
• LiveScience.com
• Los Angeles Magazine
• NY1 News health unit
• NY1 Noticias
• NYC TV
• New Haven (Conn.) Independent
• New York Times web video group
• The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer
• Newsday
• Newsweek International
• Norwood News (Bronx) - New York Press Association Foundation internship
• People - Time Inc. internship
• The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier
• Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal
• Poz magazine
• Queens Tribune
• Reuters Television - New York bureau
• Scholastic Choices
• The Scranton (Penn.) Times-Tribune
• The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger website
• Sur in English (weekly in southern Spain)
• This Week on Martha's Vineyard
• Times Ledger Newspapers - Queens (copy editing)
• Times Ledger Newspapers - Queens (sports writing)
• Transit Transit News (NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority's broadcast program)
• WHAM-TV (ABC affiliate), Rochester, N.Y.
• WNBC.com
• WNYC Radio - The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC Radio - News
• Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
• WomensENews.org
• Ziff Davis websites: PCMag.com, GearLog.com, TechnoRide.com

 

Many of these internships are paid. But for those that are not, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will pay students up to $3,000 to keep everyone on an even footing. The School recently received a $125,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to help fund its internship stipends.

"We think it's important for students to intern full time, so we made the summer internship a required part of our curriculum," Walterscheid said. "Because many media companies don't pay their interns, the stipend allows all our students to devote themselves fully to their summer experience. For the students, it's a crucial step toward getting that first job after graduation."

The summer interns will receive on-site supervision as well as faculty mentoring, and will earn three hours of pass-fail credit toward their Master of Arts degree. Journalism guest speakers will supplement the students' internship experience throughout the summer.

Walterscheid said she expects more broadcast outlets, websites, magazines and newspapers to announce their intern choices soon. Updates will be posted at www.journalism.cuny.edu.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism opened in September 2006, in a state-of-the-art facility in Times Square. As the only publicly supported graduate school of journalism in the Northeast, it offers an affordable education to qualified students who otherwise might not be able to pursue their journalism goals. The School's first class has 50 students, and 40 percent of them come from minority, immigrant or economically disadvantaged backgrounds.