2025 Diverse Media Coverage Scholarship and Summer Internship

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The Chronicle of Higher Education believes a diverse newsroom delivers the most comprehensive and dynamic journalism. Our scholarship program is targeted at students who are committed to writing professionally about the many ways race and identity intersect with America’s institutions.

The 2025 Scholarship Recipient will participate in our paid 2025 Summer Journalism internship and be awarded a $10,000 scholarship.

Summer Reporting Internship

As an intern, you’d be a full-time reporter in our Washington, D.C. newsroom. Interns work primarily on daily-news coverage and also have opportunities to pursue more ambitious stories and contribute to newsroom projects.  You’d focus your coverage on Minority Serving Institutions (such as HBCUs), efforts to recruit and retain underrepresented faculty, staff, and students on college campuses, and how the federal Office of Civil Rights is defining and investigating alleged discrimination on campuses. You would also help audit our coverage of Minority Serving Institutions, ensuring that it is fair, accurate and comprehensive, and maintain and promote our newsroom’s diverse source list. Click these links for some examples of our past interns’ work. Pay is $800 a week before taxes.

Our internship is a hybrid role based in our D.C. office. Remote internship opportunities are available outside of the D.C. area for those residing in MI, WA, TX, FL, NC, NY, and NJ.

For more information about eligibility requirements and how to apply, please see the Chronicle of Higher Education Scholarship Portal here.

To apply for this scholarship you must include the following with your application: 

• A resume.
• A cover letter that includes your interest in the scholarship, the internship, and your experience(s) writing about a historically marginalized community.
• The email addresses and phone numbers of three references; at least two of them should have edited or supervised your journalism.
• Provide five published clips that show us what you’re capable of (articles, links to articles, links to multimedia projects, or any other kind of reporting project). Candidates should have some prior journalism experience.

The deadline to apply is Wednesday, January 15, at 5:00 pm ET.

​Questions? Contact Sarah Brown, senior editor, and thanks for your interest.

The Chronicle is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to creating a diverse work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.