Careers & Internships

News Internships

We’ll help you identify internships locally —and in the industry’s top markets — that can jump-start your career while you’re still a student.

Drake News students have found internships with The Des Moines Register, the Kansas City Star and the Philadelphia Inquirer; ESPN; the Associated Press; KCCI-TV, WHO-TV and WOI-TV; St. Louis PBS and Iowa and Minnesota NPR affiliates; the World Food Prize; Meredith Corporation; ABC News; the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation; the Iowa Department of Human Rights, and more.

With our own internship coordinator, we’ll help you find the right job.

To learn more about internships held by students in all SJMC majors, visit our SJMC Internships page.

News Careers

Drake News alumni work or have worked at WHDH-TV Boston and ABC7 Chicago, the National Journal, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Time Out Chicago, the Science Center of Iowa and the Des Moines Art Center, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Denver Post, WSMV-TV and WTVF-TV in Nashville, ZLR Ignition advertising agency, the Center for Investigative Reporting, CNN, ESPN, Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greater Des Moines Partnership, the staffs of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, and the communications departments of the Omaha and Des Moines public school systems.

To learn more about the career paths of SJMC alumni in all our majors, visit the SJMC Employment page.