The Stan Macdonald internship will give aspiring journalists and media professionals an opportunity to do hands-on, published work with an NPR-affiliated public radio newsroom, North Country Public Radio, which is based on the St. Lawrence University campus.
College students will study the technical elements of broadcast journalism, together with sturdy, evocative writing for radio and superior audio enhancing utilizing Adobe Audition. They are going to be concerned within the each day NCPR newsroom assembly that units the day’s agenda, pitch tales of regional curiosity, and produce their very own audio/multimedia tales for broadcast and distribution on NCPR’s award-winning web site and social media websites.
Scroll beneath to see what previous SLU interns have stated about their expertise at NCPR and what they’ve achieved.
The timeline for the internship is as follows:
Spring 2026: You’ll enroll in an Impartial Examine with the PCA Division. Beneath the steering of NCPR Information Director David Sommerstein and the mentoring of an NCPR reporter, you’ll spend eight hours per week working with the NCPR news team, studying the technical elements of the manufacturing course of and the fundamentals of public radio journalism and ethics. The expertise will rely as a category price one full credit score (cross/fail). The profitable candidate ought to be capable of attend each day information conferences no less than as soon as per week 9:30-10 am.
Summer time 2026: After mastering the essential technical elements of broadcast journalism, you’ll spend two months of your summer season as a reporter/producer for NCPR. Your predominant process shall be to take part within the editorial course of and to develop and produce your personal tales for the station. You’ll work eight hours a day for eight weeks. You’ll obtain a complete of $3,300 within the type of a stipend throughout this era, and you can be supplied free lodging on campus. The funding for this stage is supplied by The Macdonald Journalism Internship Endowment.
Utility Deadline: October 27, 2025
Who can apply for the internship?
The applicant is at the moment working for SLU information media (The Hill Information; The Weave Information; KSLU; Communication Workplace/Journalism Internship; and many others.);
AND the applicant is of their first, sophomore or junior 12 months at SLU.
Additional Necessities:
The applicant is dedicated to persevering with to work in a senior writing or editorial place in one of many SLU information media retailers for no less than one full faculty 12 months after the completion of the internship.
Utility Bundle:
- a canopy letter summarizing your earlier media expertise and your curiosity on this internship;
- no less than three samples of your writing / information tales;
- your up to date CV/resume.
Please ship your purposes by e mail to [email protected] AND [email protected]
What do previous Macdonald Summer time Interns need to say about their summers at NCPR?
Zach Jaworski ’24 (Spring-summer 2024):
Being an intern at North Nation Public Radio allowed me to get real-world expertise in journalism at an award-winning outlet with out sacrificing what makes reporting so particular — reporting on stuff you care about. There was by no means a ‘you need to cowl this story’ or ‘we would choose you not report on that.’ I used to be inspired to seek out and canopy tales that I needed to, which made my reporting extra passionate and motivating, an expertise I do know does not include each journalism internship.
Favourite tales:
Maya Mackey ’24 (Spring-Summer time 2023):
My internship with NCPR was an especially worthwhile expertise. The NCPR information crew is educated and supportive, and dealing with them supplied me the area to develop my writing and communication skills. I used to be capable of interact with every of the totally different aspects of reporting (investigating, interviewing, writing, and enhancing,) and apply what I realized to real-world information tales, with (hopefully) real-world affect. My appreciation for the sector of journalism (fact-based and with integrity, thoughts you,) has solely grown because of my work at NCPR, and I’m so grateful for the chance to share the tales of my interviewees and take part within the subject in a significant means. I’m past appreciative of the person connections I used to be capable of kind with every of my mentors on the station.”
Favourite tales:
Iman Maani ’22 (Spring-Summer time 2022):
My internship with NCPR provided me a neighborhood, inside and outdoors the newsroom. The belief, respect, and assist prolonged to me by the information crew allowed me to pursue my artistic curiosity, and in flip, made me really feel seen and heard. I used to be capable of discover the totally different levels of reporting – investigating, pitching, interviewing, writing, and enhancing — which solely grew my appreciation for journalism.
It was really a pleasure with the ability to do that internship. Phrases can also’t categorical my appreciation for my mentors and the belief my interviewees provided me in letting me share their story.
Favourite tales:
Jessica Tom ’24 (Spring-Summer time 2022):
Interning at NCPR has been one among my favourite experiences up to now at St. Lawrence College for a number of causes. Initially, I didn’t think about broadcast journalism as a possible profession for myself. I entered this internship as a result of I had a robust curiosity in written journalism. Nonetheless, after enhancing just a few tales for Northern Gentle and dealing alongside skilled journalists, I’ve found a brand new love for broadcast journalism. Moreover, I realized a lot about journalism as a complete and what it takes to be a profitable journalist.
I’m extremely grateful for my time at NCPR, and I extremely encourage anybody with an curiosity in journalism to use.
Favourite tales:
Hannah Finley ’22 (Spring 2020/Summer time 2021):
Interning at NCPR has been a spotlight of my faculty expertise. I realized how a radio station works by pitching tales, going out into the sector for interviews, and crafting and enhancing audio. We got a lot of freedom and duty to chase our personal story concepts, which made us really feel like “actual” reporters.
This internship is superb due to the straightforward undeniable fact that it is possible for you to to tune in to Northern Gentle and listen to your personal voice on the air. I extremely suggest this internship to anybody interested by journalism or radio. It is possible for you to to offer a voice and platform to related and essential tales whereas working with an award-winning information crew.
Favourite tales:
Madison Amico ’22 (Spring 2020/Summer time 2021):
Having the chance to intern at NCPR this summer season was a spotlight of my time at St. Lawrence. I actually appreciated the quantity of artistic autonomy we got to pitch and craft our personal tales. This internship allowed me to refine my audio enhancing abilities, my interviewing abilities, and helped me to grow to be a extra concise author. There’s actually nothing like listening to your laborious work come to fruition once you hear your story on Northern Gentle within the morning! It was actually an honor to be working alongside an award-winning information crew and study what values are on the core of journalism at NCPR.
Favourite tales:
Nicholle Gotham ’20 (Summer time 2019):
“Spending a summer season at NCPR has been one among my favourite experiences that I’ve had throughout my faculty profession. Each single individual on the station is so extremely welcoming and open to serving to with even the smallest of questions. It was an unimaginable expertise to pitch information tales I used to be interested by overlaying within the information assembly, exit exploring the North Nation to gather tape, produce the story, after which truly hear it on air in the course of the Eight O’clock Hour. I used to be capable of be artistic and apply abilities I had been studying within the classroom for years. The internship is absolutely type of a make-your-own-adventure scenario due to how self-driven it’s, and I’ve grown a lot as a reporter throughout my time there.”
Favourite Tales:
James Lehner ’20 (Summer time 2019):
“My internship at NCPR was an amazing expertise. Working with so many superb reporters and other people helped me perceive journalism at so many alternative ranges, from story growth and interviews to enhancing and manufacturing. I additionally bought to see how a few of the behind-the-scenes work is completed, serving to out at occasions throughout the area.”
Favourite Tales:
Michael Paulino ’20 (Summer time 2018):
“The very first thing that struck me was the area. NCPR is positioned on the second ground of the EJ Noble Constructing slightly additional down the street from SLU, neighboring the workplace of what I’m fairly positive is a few kind of aged care middle. However what occurs in that small area is unimaginable. Awards lined up all the partitions, morning information conferences have been filled with groundbreaking investigative work on the whole lot from election protection, to the opioid disaster, to a teenage lifeguard strike in Potsdam and a canine pageant up the street in Potsdam. I believed it will be extremely nerve-wracking to even try to seek out my place in such a busy world of stories, but it surely when it got here to my flip to talk, there wasn’t any rush or annoyance reflecting again at me. All I noticed was a bunch of established journalists devoted to my growth, and what adopted was a summer season filled with experiences that ready me with the perfect workplace setting a younger intern might ask for.”
Tales Produced together with Veronica Zabala ’19:
Claire Mendes ’18 & Kelsey Mattison ’18 (Summer time 2017)
Tales Produced:
Charlotte Crawford ’16 & Bobby Baird ’17 (Summer time 2015)
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