Careers & Internships

Sports Media and Communication 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 students have found internships in organizations and companies such as MidAmerican Energy; ESPN; Meredith Corp. digital operations; Cleveland Cavaliers; Clear Channel Communications; the Iowa Cubs, Iowa Barnstormers and Des Moines Menace; The Des Moines Register; USATF Outdoor Championships; WHO-TV, KCCI-TV and WOI-TV in Des Moines; national networks in New York and Washington, D.C.; NBCSN; St. Louis PBS and Minnesota and Iowa NPR stations; the Iowa Speedway and Prairie Meadows racetrack, just to name a few. 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.

Sports Media and Communication Careers

Drake media alumni hold jobs with Hulu; Google; ESPN; the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Loyola University-Maryland athletic departments; Harpo Studios, Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, WLS-TV in Chicago; The Principal Financial Group, Hy-Vee, KCCI-TV, WOI-TV, WHO-TV, and Two Rivers Marketing in Des Moines; KCTV and KZPT-FM in Kansas City; Arizona Cardinals media relations; and the Toronto Sun online.

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