Four Penn State students have been selected to work at media outlets across the United States this summer in internship positions established for the Dow Jones News Fund Editing Intern Program.
The students are part of an elite group of college students selected for the internship positions from among hundreds of applicants nationwide. Selected this year were:
-- Grace Muller of Pittsburgh, who will be working at AccuWeather in State College, Pa.;
-- Edgar Ramirez of Lafayette, Ind., who will be working at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;
-- Caitlin Sellers of Macungie, Pa., who will be working at the Roanoke (Va.) Times; and
-- Laurie Stern of New York City, who will be working at the White Plains (N.Y.) Journal News.
Over the past 11 years, 67 Penn State students have been selected to be part of the Dow Jones News Fund Editing Intern Program.
Students selected for the program attend eight-day training programs on college campuses before completing paid internships for a minimum of 10 weeks beginning in mid-June. Interns who return to college as full-time students the following fall receive $1,000 scholarships from the Dow Jones News Fund.
Students qualify for consideration for the internships by scoring high on a standard editing test designed by the Dow Jones News Fund staff and administered under controlled conditions on the students’ home campuses. Final selections then are made by directors of the training programs based on the test, reference checks, an essay written specifically for the competition and the student’s academic record.
Eleven students from across the country will complete their pre-internship training at Penn State because the College of Communications directs one of the News Fund’s "boot camps" to prepare students for their internships.
The Dow Jones News Fund is a nonprofit foundation supported by the Dow Jones Foundation and other communications companies.