Interns are valuable to media companies for a variety of reasons, including as a potential pipeline for entry-level hires. The exchange is mutual—while employers receive the benefits of intern work in their organization, students receive valuable industry experience and chances to apply their classroom knowledge.
When drafting an internship application, including clear time and project expectations, required or preferred skills, and internship learning outcomes can attract student interns to a position. Additionally, information about company and workplace culture can generate student interest in an internship.
Many students begin looking for summer internships as early as October or November, for positions starting the following summer. Students interested in fall or spring semester internships may begin looking for positions closer to the start of their intern semester. However, students are on all different timelines, and there is no one perfect or standard internship application timeline industry wide.
Whatever timeline you decide works best for your organization, we recommend clarity with your internship timeline and search process, so that interested students know when they can expect an internship application to open or close and can plan accordingly around other applications they may be submitting.
The Media School Jobs & Internship Board is the primary way we let students know about media-related internships. Jobs that are submitted by employers are posted weekly on the job board. We can also distribute your job posting through the Buzz, our weekly student newsletter, and directly to students through our course management platform, Canvas.
If you have a job posting you would like to share with students, submit your posting here or via email, and our staff will distribute it through these channels.