TL;DR - Students, click and apply!

In this newsletter:

• Opportunities at: the Sports Journalism Institute, The Athletic, the Minnesota Star Tribune and the Dallas Morning News 👀

• A link to a Google form that I’m asking all member to fill out so I can get a good handle on who actually makes up our organization.

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The Links

Sports Journalism Institute: Deadline Nov. 6

Description: This program is widely considered a tremendous opportunity for young sports journalists. AAJA Alumni include Ohm Youngmisuk,Josh Tolentino, Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Kyle Goon and recently Noah Furtado among others. Most of these folks found work at major publications relatively quickly and proceeded to move up in the business at warp speeds.

Apply here!

The Minnesota Star Tribune: Deadline Nov. 13

Description: A 10-week summer reporting internships at their headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Interns are paid $850 a week. Interns may be able to apply for any available apprenticeships at the completion of the summer. We are mostly sports folks here but working in news gives you tremendous experience and can make you a significantly better sports journalist. Reach out to AAJA member Dane Mizutani if you’re curious about life in the Minneapolis area!

Apply here!

The Dallas Morning News: Deadline Nov. 15

Description: A sports internship for the FALL of 2027. You’ll cover a wide variety of North Texas sports for one of the premier papers in the nation. There’s also a lot of interesting links for other openings at the paper for those of you reading who have experience.

Apply here!

Tips and Tricks!

Put your big-boy journalism pants on, research and reach out to your network to try and find someone who might be able to connect you with someone that can potentially get your application in front of a hiring manager!

Also, if seasoned members know of internship opportunities, PLEASE SHARE! This is a community and as I said in my initial email, I want us to grow together! Shoot them my way with links and potential contacts and I will share in a follow-up email!

Take a VERY QUICK survey 🙏🙏🙏

I’m still looking for more of y’all to fill out a demographics survey!

Do me a solid and fill out the survey here. This will give me much needed data to figure out how to best serve your needs, how to shape panels, what social media accounts we need to spend more resources on. PLUS we’ll be able to link potential mentors and mentees.

The entire survey will take anywhere between 5-15 minutes. None of it will be shared and is truly just for me to figure out demographics and how to better align goals and priorities.

OTHER NEWS

• HUGE congratulations are in order to Adi Joseph who just became the Vice President of News at ESPN 🤯 It’s incredibly rare to see people of color take on massive roles like this, so to see Adi take this post is a big, big, big deal for all of us.

• Big ups to Gareth Kwok who got a fill-in opportunity to call a game for the Blazers!

• Happy belated birthday (Oct. 25th) to the young fella Noah Furtado. Despite his age, he’s rapidly ascended in his career as he recently became the Chargers’ beat writer for The Athletic. He’s also QUICKLY become one of the toughest interviewers in the market as he’s earned a reputation for holding Jim Harbaugh, Mike McDaniel and Justin Herbert accountable during what has become a disastrous season for the Bolts.