To combat news deserts across the country and provide important journalistic experience for college students and recent graduates, the Scripps Howard Fund is providing interns to nonprofit newsrooms. The Fund has partnered with the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), which leads the 400-newsroom INN Network, to select thirteen newsrooms. These newsrooms are based in different locations across the country, and each provide different learning opportunities. The internships will be for 10 weeks. Each internship pays a minimum of $15 per hour. 

The Scripps Howard Fund also has a support fund where selected interns can apply for additional financial help if there are financial obstacles in accepting or completing the internship.

These internships are open to college students (undergraduate and graduate) as well as students graduating college in the 2024-25 school year. 

Two of the newsrooms, The Maine Monitor and The Current GA, are offering internships through the Fund's partnership with The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. The application deadline for those newsrooms has passed.  

All of these internships will feature weekly training sessions with fellow interns from across the country, in addition to the excellent one-on-one coaching from newsroom leaders.