Elevate Your Future With IRTS
2025 IRTS Summer Fellowship Program
SUNDAY, JUNE 1st - SATURDAY, AUGUST 2nd
NEW YORK CITY
The IRTS Summer Fellowship Program is a 9-week all-expense-paid experience that allows participants to gain a comprehensive understanding of the media industry, enhance their professional skills and develop their network, all while interning at a top media company in NYC.
Applications are due Wednesday, January 15th!
This year's program will include:
- Round trip travel to and from NYC. (air, train, or driving mileage reimbursement)
- Housing at a downtown Manhattan university dormitory in a shared suite setting.
- A paid internship at a top New York media company that aligns with a student's interests and career goals.
- A comprehensive Orientation Week where Fellows have the rare opportunity to gain unparalleled access to a stellar line up of leaders while visiting numerous companies.
- Weekly events including panel discussions, company visits, professional development and speaker sessions.
- Mentoring and access to the vast IRTS network.
- Extensive career counseling and networking opportunities to ensure that each student makes the most of this New York experience!
Interested in joining this incredible program?
The 2025 Application is now OPEN!
Applications are due January 15th.
Eligibility:
- Accomplished students from all majors, including advertising, business, communications, data science, information technology, journalism, math, production, public relations, etc., are encouraged to apply!
- Students must be a current junior, senior, or grad student who has not graduated before April 2025.
- A sincere interest in pursuing a career in media is required. Applicants should showcase their passion through on-campus activities, internship/work experience, and/or school and personal projects. We highly recommend highlighting this in the application essays as well.
- Must be comfortable living in an NYC dorm suite with a roommate for the duration of the program.
- Must be able to participate in the entire 9-week program from Sunday, June 1st - Saturday, August 2nd.
The Fellowship that has played a key role in launching the careers of top media professionals for 50 years.
Highly praised throughout the media industry, the IRTS Foundation’s Summer Fellowship Program has provided unparalleled access and education to diverse, aspiring media professionals from across the country.
In addition to their internships, Fellows gain industry insights through weekly meetings with professionals from top networks, agencies, station groups, tech firms, social strategy companies, and much more! Many of these speakers are alumni of this very program - successful role models eager to welcome Fellows into the IRTS Family.
The knowledge that is gained through our program gives IRTS Summer Fellows a unique, competitive edge as they launch their careers.
Behind The Experience
The Fellowship will begin with a comprehensive Orientation Week in NYC followed by an 8-week internship placement. Throughout the 8 weeks, Fellows will also come together for a variety of programming including company visits, one-on-one mentorship meetings, professional development, fun engagement activities, and an extensive collection of speaker sessions. Did we mention that IRTS provides housing and travel to and from NYC as well!?
Here's a brief throwback video that still captures the essence of our program.
Build Your Network And More
What sets IRTS apart, year after year, is its supportive, diverse community. IRTS will help 2025 Fellows build their own community of peers, while also engaging with the broader IRTS network.
Industry Insights
Fellows will gain insight into how companies operate, how to navigate those organizations, and how to identify the types of people & opportunities best suited to launch their careers.
Professional Development
Fellows will learn business communication skills, resume and interview best practices, and how to set themselves up for success in both group and individual sessions. These meetings encourage Fellows to explore their career interests while learning about new opportunities they may have never thought to pursue.
Community Building
Fellows will invest time not only in their own futures, but also in those of their peers. In getting to know one another, the Fellows will create a supportive and fun community over the course of the program.
Past Fellow Experiences
I can’t believe I was lucky enough to have this experience. It truly is life changing and helped take away a lot of the anxieties I have with finding jobs, moving, post-grad, etc. I feel well prepared to take on the real world!
Dare I say, best summer ever?
Caitlin Rionda
2023 IRTS Fellow
Syracuse University
This community became family by the end of the summer. When people faced a win at work we all cheered, or when someone faced a challenge we worked it out. The IRTS Fellowship will change my life forever. I think I learned more about the workforce these nine weeks than I have learned during three years at college.
Hannah Mitchell
2023 IRTS Fellow
Cornell University
My experience in this fellowship was impactful, exciting, challenging, and eye opening. The experience has changed my life for the better and I was able to see myself in spaces that I never thought I would be. The Fellowship opened doors for me that would have been harder to open alone without this community.
Jayden Rodriguez
2023 IRTS Fellow
DePaul University
My perspective was expanded beyond what I thought was possible. Learning about the media industry while being a part of it was revolutionary. I had great conversations with top industry leaders and was able to hold my own. I was given access to the industry I could have only dreamed about. I had conversations with companies I could only dream about and with people in C-level positions who I never thought I would be in the same room as.
Josué Ortiz Mora
2023 IRTS Fellow
University of Kansas
We are incredibly proud of our Fellowship alumni. Former Fellows have developed careers in every aspect of media and many have taken the lead in directing our industry to new heights. Meet a few of our alums who are doing just that today.
Interested in where Fellows have interned in the past?
Click HERE.
Danielle Brooks, 2016
Senior Manager, Digital Content
FOX Corporation
Derek Wan, 2001
Director, Nonfiction Original Series
Netflix
Omar Wilson, 2016
Lead, Digital Sports Media, Lifestyle & Emerging Industries
Meta
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