Thank you for your interest in the Scripps Howard Fund Student Media Sustainability Program. This application should be filled out by a student newsroom leader, adviser or student media director who will serve as the leader and primary contact for the project. The application should take you about 30 minutes to fill out. A draft of your application will automatically save every few minutes. If you exit the application before completing it, your work will be saved. To view your draft and continue working on your entry, sign into your Submittable account, click Saved Drafts, and choose “Continue.”.  If there are any questions that you do not know the answer to, simply write "I don't know." If you have any questions about this application, please email bob@collegejournalism.org.

You will need to create a free Submittable account to fill out this application. Please do so by clicking the "SUBMIT" button below.

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 Scripps Howard Fund is sponsoring two summer internships at the Columbia Missourian. These paid, 10-week reporting roles are open to college students (undergraduate and graduate) as well as students graduating college in the 2025-26 school year.

Interns at the Missourian will also participate in weekly training sessions with fellow interns from across the country, in addition to the excellent one-on-one coaching from newsroom leaders. 

Those interested in learning more can join the Fund’s virtual Q&A to learn more about the Missourian and ask questions of the outlet's hiring managers.  Click here to register :  https://ewscripps.zoom.us/meeting/register/dKrVE-PBS3KZ21r0h7e33Q

The application deadline is Saturday, February 28.