MLB.com 2015 summer internships

2015 Summer 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 2015 Summer Internship Program. If you are graduating in December 2014, you are still eligible. All applications must be postmarked by Nov. 21, 2014. 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 $500 per week.

Applicants should submit a resume, 6 to 10 published articles, a list of references and a 750-word essay on why you should be selected. Your clips ideally will show a variety of work, including game stories, previews and features. Previous experience covering a beat is preferred.

Associates are responsible for arranging their own housing and transportation.

Please mail all internship applications to:

Bill Hill
Assistant Managing Editor/MLB.com
Major League Baseball/Western Operations
2415 E. Camelback Rd., Ste. 850
Phoenix, AZ 85016


If you have any questions, please contact Bill Hill at bill.hill@MLB.com and put the words “Internship Info” in the subject line. No phone calls, please.

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MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (MLBAM) is the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com, and the 30 club sites to create the most comprehensive resource for Major League Baseball on the Internet.

 

Don't bother if one of the following is true:

1. I don't attend a top 10 journalism school.
2. I don't have work published at a top 100 daily.
3. I don't like writing public relations.

 

Disregarding the above post because a) my J-school was borderline top-10, I suppose, b) I had no position and only two clips at a major daily when I applied and c) I don't feel like this internship is a PR internship, I'll say:

I'm wrapping up this internship now. It's fantastic and a great program.

You're with the team every day when it's at home, as if you were a full-time beat writer. Plenty of days, you'll be MLB.com's only writer with that team and you'll be responsible for all the coverage. It's a lot of responsibility, but if you want to be a sports writer (considering the website, I think that's a safe bet) then this is a great internship.