Summer Internships in Arts, Media + Communications
This is a page-in progress listing summer opportunities – from internships to seasonal jobs – in arts, media, and communications fields. Deadlines are approximate!
Advertising, Marketing + Graphic Design
- For a huge list of opportunities in advertising and marketing, check out CEI Internships. Click on Student Login, and use the following credentials: Username: Grinnell Password: GoPioneers
- Apple (multiple locations) offers internships in marketing, graphic design, and more.
- Comcast NBCUniversal offers internships in marketing and communications.
- DIRECTV (multiple locations) offers internships in content and marketing.
- Fuse (Burlington, VT) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Hershey (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long marketing internships.
- Home Depot offers a very highly ranked internship program in marketing.
- Intel (multiple locations) offers internships in marketing and sales.
- The Modern Language Association (New York, NY) offers summer and seasonal internships.
- Nike and Converse (multiple locations) offer internships in graphic design, product design, and more.
- Signal Theory (multiple locations) offers summer internships.
- The T. Howard Foundation has an internship program dedicated to improving the participation of diverse + underrepresented groups in the media, entertainment, advertising, and public relations.
- Warner Bros. Discovery has internships in technology, design, distribution, marketing, publicity, development, production, news, games, animation, human resources, and more.
- Just about every organization has a marketing department. Look under a field for the types of businesses that interest you. If an organization offers internships, chances are good that at least one of them will involve marketing!
Animation & Game Design
- Activision (CA and international) offers summer internships.
- DreamWorks (Glendale, CA) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Hornet (New York, NY) offers animation internships.
- Microsoft (international) offers game design internships.
- Nickelodeon (Burbank, CA) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Pixar (Emeryvill, CA) offers summer and year-round internships.
- PlayStation (various cities in CA) offers summer internships. Opportunities are posted in December, and are filled on a rolling basis.
- Riot Games (Los Angeles, CA) offers internships in animation, game design, sound design, video editing, writing, and more.
- Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA) offers summer internships. Application window opens Feb. 1
- Television Academy Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) offers summer internships at multiple TV studios, and can include animation.
- Walt Disney Animation Studios (Burbank, CA) offer summer internships, as well as apprenticeships after graduation.
- Warner Bros. Discovery has internships in technology, design, distribution, marketing, publicity, development, production, news, games, animation, human resources, and more.
- Wizards of the Coast offers summer internships for their gaming and entertainment brands.
- Zatun (Gujarat, India) offers internships for 3-6 month periods. You must have a link to online game prototypes/previously developed games to apply.
Art
- Americans for the Arts (multiple locations) offers a Diversity in Arts Leadership internship program for students from backgrounds traditionally untapped for arts leadership. Accepted students are placed at an arts nonprofit in one of six national locations.
- Americans for the Arts (Washington, D.C.) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO) offers summer internships.
- Christie’s (multiple) offers internships in their Asia, Hong Kong, London, and New York City offices.
- The Getty Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) funds internships at cultural organizations across Los Angeles for outstanding students from Los Angeles county who are members of groups underrepresented in careers related to museums and the visual arts.
- The Morgan Conservatory (Cleveland, OH) offers summer internships in papermaking and arts administration.
- NE SCULPTURE (Minneapolis, MN) has an internship/residency program for emerging artists.
- Sotheby’s (New York, NY) offers summer internships.
- Warner Bros. Discovery has internships in technology, design, distribution, marketing, publicity, development, production, news, games, animation, human resources, and more.
- Wizards of the Coast offers summer internships for their gaming and entertainment brands.
Communications
- The American Foreign Service Association (Washington, D.C.) offers summer internships in communications and outreach. Deadline: Feb. 15
- The Modern Language Association offers summer and seasonal internships. Deadline: March 15
- The T. Howard Foundation has an internship program dedicated to improving the participation of diverse + underrepresented groups in the media, entertainment, advertising, and public relations.
- Just about every organization has a communications department, or several communications areas that deal with development, public relations, and marketing. Look under a field for the types of businesses that interest you. If an organization offers internships, chances are good that at least one of those internships will involve communications!
Dance
- American Dance Festival (Durham, NC) offers summer and year-round internships in arts administration and production. Deadline: Feb. 1
- Americans for the Arts (multiple locations) offers a Diversity in Arts Leadership internship program for students from backgrounds traditionally untapped for arts leadership. Accepted students are placed at an arts nonprofit in one of three national locations. Deadline: Jan. 10
- Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME) offer summer internships. Application window opens: Dec. 3; Deadline: Jan. 14
- Dance/USA (Washington, D.C.) offers summer and semester-long internships in arts administration.
- Jacob’s Pillow (Becket, MA) offers summer festival internships in specific areas of arts administration and production. Deadline: Jan. 11
- Mark Morris Dance Group (Brooklyn, NY) offers summer and semester-long internships.
Design – Product
- Hasbro (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships in multiple areas of toy development, from design to marketing.
- Lego (multiple locations worldwide) periodically offers internships.
- Mattel (multiple locations worldwide) offers summer internships in multiple areas, including design, development, supply chain, and information technology.
- Nike and Converse (multiple locations) offer internships in graphic design, product design, and more.
Film + TV
- 21st Century Fox (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships in its film, television, and sports divisions.
- The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has a talent development, diversity and inclusion program–Gold Rising–that offers internships with production companies such as AMC Networks, Annapurna Pictures, Bron Studios, and Monkeypaw Productions.
- Disney Professional Internships are available in many film/TV areas. This link will lead you to all Disney internships, as well as internships for ABC, ESPN, Lucasfilm, and Marvel.
- Diverso runs The Minority Report–a virtual, 6-month fellowship program for diverse screenwriters enrolled in undergraduate or graduate educational institutions–and Black Writers in Focus–a 10-week, paid summer fellowship program for Black student screenwriters.
- The International Radio & Television Society (IRTS) (New York, NY) offers summer fellowships that serve as “media bootcamps” Deadline: Dec. 1 and a broadcast sales associate program Deadline: Jan. 27
- Lionsgate offers internships in the summer and fall.
- Minnie Productions (Chicago, IL) offers internships in camera, production, and marketing.
- NBCUniversal offers a range of internships.
- Nickelodeon (Burbank, CA) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Paramount offers summer internships in a variety of areas.
- PBS (Arlington and Alexandria, VA) offers summer internships, which are posted each February.
- The T. Howard Foundation has an internship program dedicated to improving the participation of diverse + underrepresented groups in the media, entertainment, advertising, and public relations.
- Television Academy Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) offers summer internships at multiple studios.
- Turner (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships in TV, news, and entertainment, as well as post-graduate apprenticeships.
- United Talent Agency (multiple locations) has an internship program.
- Voice of America (Washington, D.C.) offers internships in television production, journalism, and music.
- Warner Bros. Discovery has internships in technology, design, distribution, marketing, publicity, development, production, news, games, animation, human resources, and more.
Journalism
- For a huge list of opportunities in broadcast, print, and online media, check out CEI Internships. Click on Student Login, and use the following credentials: Username: Grinnell Password: GoPioneers
- 21st Century Fox (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships in its news and sports divisions.
- ABC News (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- American Graphics Institute (Boston, MA) offers a summer business and technology reporting internship.
- The American Press Institute (Arlington, VA) offers a summer fellowship program. Deadline: Jan. 6
- The American Society of Magazine Editors provides a summer internship program for rising Seniors at magazines in New York and Washington.
- The Associated Press (multiple locations) offers multiple paid summer internships in not only various types of news coverage, but also in photography/video and data journalism. Deadline: Dec. 21
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA) offers summer internships.
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) offers an annual paid summer internship.
- Bloomberg (multiple locations, international) offers summer internships around the world.
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) offers summer internships.
- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) offers summer internships.
- Business Insider (New York, NY and San Francisco, CA) offers summer internships.
- Chalkbeat offers summer reporting internships in Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, Newark, and New York City.
- Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) offers summer internships.
- Chicago Magazine (Chicago, IL) accepts internship applications on a rolling basis.
- Chicago Sun-Times (Chicago, IL) offers summer and semester-long internships. Deadline: April 15
- Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity in Journalism (multiple locations) provides training and mentoring with news veterans, and matches qualified Juniors, Seniors, and recent graduates with participating news organizations across the country for paid summer internships.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education has a summer reporting internship.
- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX and Washington, D.C.) offers summer internships for their English and Spanish newspapers.
- The Denver Post (Denver, CO) offers summer internships for Juniors and Seniors who have had previous experience interning at a daily paper.
- Dow Jones News Fund (multiple locations) pairs Juniors, Seniors, and graduates with leading news organizations, provides pre-internship training, and pays a weekly salary during the internship.
- Forbes (Jersey City, NJ) offers summer editorial internships.
- The Foreign Service Journal (Washington, D.C.) offers an editorial and journalism internship.
- The Google News Initiative Fellowship (multiple locations) enables students of journalism and technology to spend their summer working at relevant locations across the world.
- In These Times (Chicago, IL) offers remote and hybrid editorial internships.
- inewsource (San Diego, CA) offers summer internships.
- Los Angeles Times (multiple locations) offers summer internships in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C.
- The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL) offer summer and semester-long internships.
- Moment Magazine (Washington, D.C.) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- National Association of Black Journalists (multiple locations) offers internships in their office, as well as with different broadcasting associations.
- NBCUniversal (multiple locations) offers a range of internships in news and entertainment.
- The New York Times (New York, NY) offers summer internships in technology, advertising, marketing, product & design, and data.
- Oregonian Media Group (Portland, OR) offers summer internships.
- Paramount offers summer internships in a variety of areas, including for CBS News.
- Pennsylvania Capitol Reporters (Harrisburg, PA) offers two Juniors or Seniors the opportunity to work in the newsroom at the state Capitol. It includes rotations at seven media companies.
- POLITICO (Rosslyn, VA) offers internships year-round.
- The Pulliam Journalism Fellowship (Indianapolis, IN) offers summer internships for current Juniors, Seniors, and recent graduates.
- Quincy Media has internships in multiple states.
- Reuters (multiple locations) offers internships in journalism, business, technology, and sales.
- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) offers summer internships for Juniors and Seniors.
- Slate offers editorial summer internships in its Washington, D.C. and New York offices.
- The Star Tribune Media Company (Minneapolis, MN) offers summer internships.
- Statesman (Austin, TX) offers summer and spring internships.
- Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL) offers summer, 6-month, and year-long internships.
- The Texas Tribune offers summer and spring fellowships.
- The T. Howard Foundation has an internship program dedicated to improving the participation of diverse + underrepresented groups in the media, entertainment, advertising, and public relations.
- Time Inc. offers summer and semester-long internships across their magazines, including Time, People, Cooking Light, Essence, and Sports Illustrated.
- Turner (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships in TV, news, and entertainment, as well as post-graduate apprenticeships.
- The Virginian-Pilot offers summer internships at several of its publications in Virginia and North Carolina.
- Voice of America (Washington, D.C.) offers internships in television production, journalism, and radio/music.
- The Wall Street Journal (various) offers internships in multiple areas.
- Warner Bros. Discovery has internships in technology, design, distribution, marketing, publicity, development, production, news, games, animation, human resources, and more.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) offers summer internships.
- If you are interested in radio news, then check out the Radio & Podcasts section.
Museums, Galleries, Historical Sites + Archives
- For a huge list of opportunities in museums and historical sites or associations, check out CEI Internships. Click on Student Login, and use the following credentials: Username: Grinnell Password: GoPioneers
- Americans for the Arts (multiple locations) offers a Diversity in Arts Leadership internship program for students from backgrounds traditionally untapped for arts leadership. Accepted students are placed at an arts nonprofit in one of three national locations.
- Arts Intern offers paid summer internships to museums and cultural institutions in Boston, Cleveland, New York City, Philadelphia, and Providence.
- The Association of Art Museum Curators lists a bevy of museum internship opportunities.
- Christie’s (multiple) offers internships in their Asia, Hong Kong, London, and New York City offices.
- The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, NM) offers internships.
- The Getty Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) funds internships at cultural organizations across Los Angeles for outstanding students from Los Angeles county who are members of groups underrepresented in careers related to museums and the visual arts.
- The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) has a junior fellows summer internship program that spans all areas of library science, archival work, and research. Additionally, they offer an Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program for the next generation of diverse archivists and knowledge workers.
- The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI) offers summer and semester internships.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) offers summer, semester-long, and year-round internships.
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- The National Museum of African American History (multiple locations) offers paid summer internships.
- The National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.) offers summer internships in various areas, both paid and unpaid.
- The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) offers summer internships.
- The New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA) offers internships.
- The National Park Service offers a Cultural Resources Diversity Internship Program for students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the National Parks. Positions include archaeology, museum/archives, research, public outreach, GIS, and more.
- The Smithsonian offers internships across all their museums, research centers, and other units. Specific granted internships are also available, including:
- The Smithsonian Conservation Internship for Broadening Access (Washington, D.C.) aims to help diversify the field of museum conservation through its summer internship program.
- The Smithsonian Katzenberger Foundation Art History Internship is a need-based program supporting internships for undergraduates in research and collections projects at the Smithsonian Institution.
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY) offers summer internships.
- Sotheby’s (New York, NY) offers summer internships.
- Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY) offers paid summer and semester-long internships.
- The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY) offers summer internships.
- COVID-19 Resource: For the summer of 2020, The Museum Studies Network, in conjunction with the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable, had a public document of online internships at museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, zoos, aquaria and affiliated organizations. You can check to see if any of these internships are ongoing.
Music
- Americans for the Arts (multiple locations) offers a Diversity in Arts Leadership internship program for students from backgrounds traditionally untapped for arts leadership. Accepted students are placed at an arts nonprofit in one of three national locations.
- Atlantic Records offers summer internships in its Burbank, CA and New York, NY offices.
- Central City Opera (Central City, CO) offers summer internships in production and administration.
- Des Moines Metro Opera (Des Moines, IA) offers summer internships in design & production or administrative & artistic areas.
- The Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, NY) offers summer internships in production and arts administration.
- Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI) offers summer internships and art camp counselor positions.
- The Mann Center for the Performing Arts (Pittsburgh, PA) offers summer internships.
- Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (St. Louis, MO) offers summer internships.
- Sony Music Entertainment offers internships in California, New York, and Tennessee.
- The T. Howard Foundation has an internship program dedicated to improving the participation of diverse + underrepresented groups in the media, entertainment, advertising, and public relations.
- United Talent Agency (multiple locations) has an internship program.
- Universal Music Group offers summer and semester-long internships across the U.S. and in London.
- Voice of America (Washington, D.C.) offers internships in television production, journalism, and radio/music.
- Warner Music Group offers summer and semester-long internships in Burbank, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and New York.
Publishing
- The Association of American Publishers has a paid summer internship program that it hosts in partnership with the United Negro College Fund. It supports BIPOC juniors and seniors. Deadline: Mar. 26
- Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- The Foreign Service Journal (Washington, D.C.) offers an editorial and journalism internship.
- Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, MN) offers summer, fall, and winter/spring internships.
- Hachette Book Group offers internships.
- HarperCollins Publishers offers internships throughout the year.
- Lee + Low Books (New York, NY) offers a Diversity in Publishing Summer Internship.
- Macmillan Publishers offers internships.
- Penguin Random House (New York, NY) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Princeton University Press offers internships throughout the year.
- Scholastic offers a corporate summer internship program designed to give students experience in a variety of Scholastic businesses.
- The T. Howard Foundation has an internship program dedicated to improving the participation of diverse + underrepresented groups in the media, entertainment, advertising, and public relations.
- Verso (Brooklyn, NY) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- W.W. Norton & Company (New York, NY) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- If you are interested in a career in publishing and aren’t able to secure an internship, industry professionals recommend working for a newspaper, magazine, library, or bookstore – anything involving the published written word.
Radio + Podcasts
- American Public Media Group (multiple locations) will periodically offer internships.
- The International Radio & Television Society (IRTS) (New York, NY) offers summer fellowships that serve as “media bootcamps.”
- KCUR (Kansas City, MO) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- New York Public Radio (New York City) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- NPR (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Many NPR member stations also offer internships. Find the station near you on this guide, and then look them up online.
- SiriusXM (multiple locations) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Voice of America (Washington, D.C.) offers internships in television production, journalism, and radio/music.
- WLRN Public Radio (Miami, FL) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- WUSF Public Media (Tampa, FL) offers summer and semester-long internships.
Theatre
- Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY) offers summer internships in artistic, production, design, and administrative areas.
- American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, VA) offers summer internships in artistic and administrative areas.
- Americans for the Arts (multiple locations) offers a Diversity in Arts Leadership internship program for students from backgrounds traditionally untapped for arts leadership. Accepted students are placed at an arts nonprofit in one of three national locations.
- Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) offers summer and season-long internships.
- Borderlands Theater (Tucson, AZ) offers semester and season-long internships.
- Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration and design.
- Central City Opera (Central City, CO) offers summer internships in production and administration.
- Chance Theater (Anaheim, CA) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Chicago, IL) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration and design.
- Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN) offers summer and semester-long internships.
- Children’s Theatre of Madison (Madison, WI) offers summer internships in casting and teaching.
- Des Moines Metro Opera (Des Moines, IA) offers summer internships in design & production or administrative & artistic areas.
- The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center (Waterford, CT) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration, library/museum work, new play development, production, and design.
- The Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, NY) offers summer internships in production and arts administration.
- Goodman Theatre (Chicago, IL) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration, design, and production.
- Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) offers internships and artistic observerships on a rolling basis.
- The Lake Dillon Theatre Co. (Silverthorne, CO) offers summer apprenticeships in acting, administration, education, and production.
- Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA) offers summer internships.
- Manhattan Theatre Club (New York, NY) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration and production.
- The Millbrook Playhouse (Mill Hall, PA) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration, design, and production.
- The Muny (St. Louis, MO) offers summer internships in production and administration.
- The Naples Players (Naples, FL) offer summer internships in production.
- New York Stage & Film Company (Poughkeepsie, NY) offers summer internships in arts administration, design, and production for the Powerhouse Theater summer new play development program.
- Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (St. Louis, MO) offers summer internships.
- Penumbra (Minneapolis, MN) offers summer internships.
- Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (Pittsburgh, PA) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration, design, and production.
- The Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis, MN) offers summer and season-long internships.
- Portland Stage: The Theatre of Maine (Portland, ME) offers summer internships in education.
- The Public Theater (New York, NY) offers summer internships in various areas. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
- Roundabout Theatre Company (New York, NY) offers summer internships in arts administration.
- The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, NJ) offers summer internships in many areas. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
- Steppenwolf (Chicago, IL) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration and production.
- Stone Soup Theatre (Seattle, WA) offers summer internships in teaching, arts management, and costumes.
- Taproot Theatre Company (Seattle, WA) offers summer internships in teaching, arts administration, stage management, and design.
- Theatre Aspen (Aspen, CO) offers summer apprenticeships in specific areas of arts administration, performance, and production.
- Writers Theatre (Glencoe, IL) offers summer internships in specific areas of arts administration.