2018 MLB.com reporting internships

2018 Editorial Internships

Want an exciting summer covering Major League Baseball? MLB.com offers 30 reporting internships to aspiring sportswriters. These internships are designed to give associates the full range of experiences that come with covering a professional team. Each associate will work closely with a site reporter to give visitors to a team’s Web site all the information they need to follow the team from Opening Day to season’s end. Each Major League team will have one associate.

Students who are currently juniors or seniors, as well as graduate students, are eligible for our 2018 Summer Internship Program. If you are graduating in December 2017, you are still eligible. All applications must be received by Nov. 25, 2017. We will make our selections by the end of January.

We expect each intern to spend a minimum of 10 weeks in the program, dates determined by a person’s college schedule. Interns who have graduated generally are allowed to work until the end of the season.

Interns will be paid $12.50 per hour and work an average of 40 hours per week. Associates are responsible for arranging their own housing and transportation.

Complete applications will include a resume, 5 to 10 published articles, a list of 3 or 4 references and a 750-word essay on why you should be selected. Your clips ideally will show a variety of work with a special emphasis on game coverage. Previous experience covering a beat is preferred.

Click on the link below to submit your application.

2018 Editorial Internships

 

These internships are great springboards to full-time reporter jobs covering baseball and other sports. Not applying for this when I was a senior is one of my great regrets. Program alums include Chelsea Janes, who covers the Nationals for The Washington Post; Jamal Collier, who covers the Nationals for MLB.com; Ari Wasserman, who covers Ohio State for The Athletic; and Jared Diamond, Wall Street Journal baseball writer, among others.

One of the responsibilities left out of this description is covering for the visiting team's associate reporter when they are in town. A great way to get experience covering more teams and interface with out-of-town beat writers.

 

my ultimate end goal is to get into covering MLB full time and while i have gotten my foot in the door, i too wish i could have done something like this when i was in college. of course, i was already working full time for a local paper while raising two kids, so it probably wouldnt have worked for me 10 years ago.

 

I don't have to sit on a casting couch, do I?