ASME Internship Program

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is accepting candidates for its Magazine Internship Program 2025, which will be held June 2 to Aug. 8, 2025.

The ASME Internship Program is a ten-week summer program, offering paid internships for college students at magazines and websites in New York and Washington. Since the program was founded in 1967, 2,000 rising college seniors have worked as ASME interns. Nearly 500 have gone on to successful careers in print and electronic journalism.

ASME interns report, write, fact-check and copy-edit for print and online publications. They may sometimes interview celebrities, attend press conferences and work the red carpet—but most of the summer they do the un-glam but essential work of magazine journalism.

The ASME Internship program begins with three days of orientation, when interns are schooled in the fundamentals of reporting, fact checking and copy editing. During the summer, interns attend special events in New York and Washington and meet regularly with top editors.

Qualifications

• Applicants should be juniors when they apply, planning on completing their third year in college before June 2025 and graduating in spring 2026.
• Only full-time students with a grade point average of at least 3.0 will be considered for internships.

Besides overall academic performance, ASME interns are selected based on:

• academic training in journalism (but students who are not majoring in journalism or whose colleges do not offer journalism courses are frequently accepted)
• campus-journalism experience, preferably as a reporter or editor at a newspaper, magazine or website
• previous internships or employment, especially at city, regional or national newspapers, magazines or websites

How to apply

The deadline for applications is January 7, 2025. To learn more and apply, please click here.