Internships are vital for you to gain real-world experience and make business contacts. Journalism employers expect to see at least one internship on an applicant's resume. And countless NYU students have landed jobs at the places where they interned.

Here in New York City, you have a wealth of internship opportunities to choose from. The NYU journalism department has longstanding relationships with the top media outlets in town, and is constantly forging new ones. For a list of places where NYU journalism students have interned recently, click here. To read what students have to say about internship experiences, click here.

You may choose to intern on a volunteer, paid or for-credit basis depending on the employer's program. If you intern for credit, you enroll in the Journalism Department's Credit Internship Course. An important change: Students can now take this course more than once and have the option of electing to earn 1, 2, 3 or 4 credits for the course. But you can earn no more than 4 credits total. Therefore, anyone who has already taken the course for 4 credits cannot enroll again. The director of Career Services will work with you to help find and monitor the credit internship.

To check out internship listings, click here or (starting with the fall semester 2007) look for postings near the Career Services office, Room 647 of 20 Cooper Square.

• Requirements & procedures
• Intern Record Sheet
• Syllabus
• Where students have interned recently
• Student internship experiences

Email: pamela.noel@nyu.edu