Internships offer students invaluable, real-world experience and the opportunity to build a professional portfolio that reflects their individual strengths and career aspirations. To support our students in these endeavors, we offer competitive internship awards that provide cash assistance to help offset the costs of low-paid or unpaid internships, ensuring students can pursue meaningful opportunities regardless of financial constraints.
Internship Awards
Sports Media and Communication
Dana and Lynn Roper Fund
The Dana and Lynn Roper Fund supports students pursuing sports media and communications majors pursuing unpaid or underpaid internships.
Eligibility: You must be a sports media and communications major with an unpaid or low paying summer internship that's located in a top market ("top market" is determined by the college's scholarship and student success committee).
Applications are open March 3-April 21Journalism
Rural Journalism Fellowship Award
The Rural Journalism Fellowship award is available to students who have a journalism or broadcasting internship during the summer.
Eligibility: During your internship, you must do 50% or more of your reporting in a rural community outside of the Lincoln or Omaha areas.
Summer 2025 applications are due May 5Advertising and Public Relations
Kris Malkoski Fund
The Kris Malkoski Scholarship Fund supports advertising and public relations majors pursuing unpaid or underpaid internships.
Eligibility: You must be a declared advertising and public relations major with a low paying or unpaid summer internship.
Applications are open March 3-April 21Journalism
Nelson Dream Big Fund
The Dream Big award is available to students who have secured print journalism internships at major national publications.
Eligibility: You must be a declared journalism major who has demonstrated academic excellence and secured a news editorial internship at a top newspapers, magazines, news websites, or news services in these major media markets: New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Contact Tiffany Groteluschen at tgroteluschen2@unl.edu if you believe you're eligible for this award.
Advertising and Public Relations
J. Steve Davis Jump Start Fund
The J. Steve Davis Jump Start Fund supports students pursuing advertising internships in large metropolitan markets outside of Nebraska.
Eligibility: You must have an ADPR-focused internship in a large metropolitan market outside Nebraska. This award can be given to any CoJMC major.
Applications are open March 3-April 21Journalism
Rural Journalism Internship Award
To qualify for the Rural Journalism Internship Award, students must intern with a newspaper, broadcast outlet, nonprofit, or community organization in a Nebraska town with a population under 80,000. The award helps offset the cost of temporary housing during the internship.
Apply by 11:59 p.m. on May 7Have Questions? We're Here to Help!
