Mississippi Today is taking applications for two summer internships

By Mississippi Today | Originally published by Mississippi Today

Mississippi Today is inviting college juniors and seniors and graduate students with an interest in journalism to apply for its summer internships.

The paid, nine-week positions provide aspiring journalists the opportunity to work in a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom and learn skills that will prepare them for a career in public service journalism.

The video intern will work with Mississippi Today’s video team to produce social vertical video content and traditional long-form videos. Areas of focus may include filming, editing, graphics, storyboarding and social media distribution.

The special projects intern will work with Mississippi Today’s reporters and editors in the fields of education, health, justice and politics. Areas of focus may include crunching data, creating graphics, submitting public records requests, reporting and writing.

Each internship runs June 8 through Aug. 7. Candidates interested in the video position can apply here. Those interested in the special projects position can apply here.

The application deadline is Tuesday, May 12. Additional questions? Contact Senior Director of People and Culture Dylan Penny at dpenny@deepsouthtoday.org.

Past interns who are now fulltime Mississippi Today journalists are Aaron Lampley, Simeon Gates, Richard Lake and Alex Rozier. 

Lampley was the video intern in 2025. Weeks after his graduation from Mississippi State University, he was hired as one of Mississippi Today’s Jackson reporters in January.

Gates, a University of Southern Mississippi graduate, was a 2024 reporting intern and moved directly into a fulltime role as the newsroom’s general assignment reporter.

Lake was a 2021 Mississippi Today intern. The Mississippi State University graduate worked as a political reporter at Jackson’s WJTV before joining Mississippi Today fulltime in 2024 as its audience engagement specialist, and he was named video editor in 2025.

Rozier, a Boston University graduate, has been Mississippi Today’s data and environmental reporter since 2017, moving directly from his internship into a fulltime role. 

This article was originally published by Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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