The Pittsburgh Media Partnership oversees a robust paid year-round internship program in which university students produce work for an in-house newsroom and our 33 Partner news outlets. In previous years, PMP summer interns were placed with specific outlet Partner outlets. During the academic year, interns worked out of the Downtown Media Hub and produced content that was made available to Partnership members and posted elsewhere on this website.

For the 2025 summer internship program, eight interns have been working with Partner outlets for their 10-week stays and two others have been providing material for the PMP newsroom,  a news service that Point Park’s Center for Media Innovation 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 the CMI/PMP newsroom’s work is government and enterprise reporting in Southwestern Pennsylvania. 

The internships are 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.

Intern candidates should be at least 18 and enrolled at a college-level institution. Recent graduates also are eligible to apply. Candidates must live in the Pittsburgh area during the duration of the internship; no virtual internships are available. For the summer internship program, students are paid $15/hour, up to 30 hours a week for 10 weeks starting in late May and running through early August.

For the fall 2025 program, two interns will be selected, with a start date of early September. Interns will work with the PMP newsroom, producing material for all 33 PMP outlets. Interns will work a maximum of 150 hours, and those hours must be completed by the end of the fall semester. To apply, use the following link: https://forms.gle/95dCW67ngqjq2rwL9

For more information, please contact PMP Coordinator Frank Garland at fgarland@pointpark.edu or newsroom Director and Teaching Editor Kim Palmiero at kim.palmiero@pointpark.edu and use PMP INTERNSHIP in the subject line. Applications are due no later than 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.