Four Students Selected for Dow Jones Internship program

Four Penn State journalism students have been selected for summer internship positions provided through the Dow Jones News Fund Editing Intern Program. The students were selected from hundreds of applicants nationwide and will work at media outlets across the country beginning in mid-June. Selected this year were:

-- Senior Matthew Baumann of Collegeville, Pa., who will be working at the Roanoke (Va.) Times;
-- Junior John Adam Bittner of Bethel Park, Pa., who will be working at the Media General Consolidated Editing Center in Tampa, Fla., which serves the Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch, the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal and the Tampa Tribune;
-- Senior Laura Ingrassia of Athens, Pa., who will be working at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va.; and
-- Senior Samantha Kramer of Stroudsburg, Pa., who will be working at AccuWeather in State College, Pa.

Selected students attend eight-day training programs on college campuses before completing paid internships for a minimum of 10 weeks. Penn State will serve as one of the training locations, and thee of the Penn State students will complete their editing training on their home campus.

At the end of the full program, interns who return to college as full-time students the following fall receive scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $1,800 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 are made by directors of the training programs based on the test, reference checks, an essay and the student’s academic record.

Each of the Penn State selectees has had previous editing experience gained through positions at The Daily Collegian, OnwardState.com and professional internships. Including the new class of interns, 71 Penn State students have been selected as part of the Dow Jones News Fund Editing Intern Program during the past 12 years.

The Dow Jones News Fund is a nonprofit foundation supported by the Dow Jones Foundation and other communications companies.

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