2022 Summer Internships

Ideastream Public Media, a Cleveland-based multiple media organization and home to Ohio’s largest PBS, NPR, and classical radio stations, is looking for its next class of summer interns! Our Internship Program is designed to maximize the internship experience through hands-on work, delivery of products and relationship-building with our staff. We eagerly welcome individuals with diverse lived experiences and perspectives to enrich our work and bring fresh ideas into our organization. Each internship comes with a $2,500 stipend paid over the course of the 10-week internship period.

Just this past October 2021, WKSU 89.7 joined the Ideastream Public Media family. Through this partnership, Ideastream is expanding its local news and information service to 22 counties of Northeast Ohio and its output of trusted, in-depth, high-quality local news and information content. If you’re someone who loves broadcast and digital journalism, is motivated by curiosity and wants to learn about their community, check out the internship opportunities below and apply today! Please indicate your internship preference in your application.

Arts & Culture Team: The Arts & Culture Intern will assist in local arts and culture content production for digital, television, and radio platforms. This includes content on The Sound of Ideas, Morning Edition and All Things Considered on WCPN; Applause on WVIZ, and online at ideastream.org, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Health Team: The Health Intern will assist with all aspects in the creation of a new podcast. The podcast will be part of the “Connecting the Dots between Race and Health,” project which aims to inform the community and create a conversation about how racism contributes to poor health outcomes in Northeast Ohio.

News Team: The News Intern will assist an IPM reporter in researching and reporting a long-form digital story on an issue of public concern in Northeast Ohio. The intern will work closely with the reporter on essential tasks such as researching public records; locating and conducting interviews with sources both in the field and in the office and organizing the results of that reporting to assist with story production.

Programs & Specials Team: The Community Storytelling Intern will work on Ideastream Public Media’s “Sound of Us” initiative to amplify community voices on the radio. The intern will go on assignment to interview community members, gather their stories and work with the initiative’s Senior Producer to prepare those stories for radio broadcast.

Sound of Ideas Team: The Sound of Ideas Intern will assist with planning, researching, booking and producing Ideastream Public Media’s morning public affairs news show, the “Sound of Ideas”.