Grant support from the Scripps Howard Fund will allow City Limits to host interns for three semesters beginning in the summer of 2025, who will produce stories and investigations for the Spanish/English news initiative, Una Ciudad sin Límites.
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A City Limits intern conducting interviews outside City Hall in the summer of 2018.
City Limits, a nonprofit newsroom covering housing, homelessness and other pressing policy issues in New York City, will launch a paid internship program next year to support the careers of emerging local Hispanic and Latino journalists.
Grant support from the Scripps Howard Fund will allow City Limits to host interns for three semesters beginning in the summer of 2025, part of the organization’s effort to increase the number of Latino journalists reporting stories on underrepresented communities in New York City.
The interns—one each during the summers of 2025 and 2026, and a third during the 2025/2026 school year—will report for City Limits’ Spanish/English news initiative, Una Ciudad sin Límites, with a focus on housing, homelessness and immigration.
They will work closely with City Limits staff, including Spanish language reporter Daniel Parra, and take part in training around misinformation in the news and help plan workshops and community forums geared toward Spanish-speaking New Yorkers. Applicants will be recruited from select CUNY schools with which City Limits has longstanding partnerships.
The internship is one of two training programs being launched next year with support from the Scripps Howard Fund, in partnership with the Adam R. Scripps Foundation. In addition to City Limits, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Nevada Chapter will place Latino undergraduate and post-graduate students at newsrooms in the state over the course of two years.
City Limits, founded in 1976, has a history of helping to prepare the next generation of New York journalists and diversify the city’s media pipeline. Since 2014, the newsroom has trained hundreds of New York City high school students through its CLARIFY program, which teaches them the ins and outs of journalism as they report on stories in their own communities.
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