You can help train the next generation of journalists.
Please consider supporting the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association’s 12-week paid summer internship program.
The PLCA is gathering applications again to hire two more college-age journalists for the summer of 2024 who want professional experience to help propel their career to the next level.
All of the money the PLCA receives for the program goes directly to pay for the interns’ salaries and any associated costs.
We believe the program has been an important building block in the experience of the young journalists who participate in it, and any donation will help it continue.
It delivers real-life reporting experience for PLCA interns, in a variety of settings, alongside professional reporters and sets up the interns up to be professionals, because they are treated as such. In short, they are expected to produce top-notch stories and by the time they finish the internship they rise to that expectation.
The PLCA’s members have a combined decades of experience covering state government and volunteer their time to work with the interns and guide them toward a career in journalism. The interns often go on to work in the newsrooms of Pennsylvania’s news organizations. Some – like Gillian McGoldrick (2018) of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Jaxon White (2022) of LNP – later become members of the PLCA.
The PLCA's 2024 interns were Trebor Maitin and Sarah Nicell. Maitin graduated from Lafayette College and is pursuing a master's degree at Columbia University's Journalism School. Nicell graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and is a campaign finance and data desk fellow at LNP in Lancaster.
The 2023 interns – Samuel O’Neal of Temple University and DaniRae Renno of Elizabethtown College – are destined for great things. O’Neal is to graduate from Temple University in 2025, is editor-in-chief of The Temple News and is interning at the Philadelphia Inquirer, covering the business of college athletics in the city. Last year, he was a sports intern at the Inquirer and interned with McClatchy, working in newsrooms on the West Coast as a general assignment reporter. Renno is managing editor of the Etownian, Elizabethtown College’s student newspaper and, in 2024, interned with Pennlive.com/The Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
Christina Baker (2022) is a reporter for the indispensable financial publication, Bond Buyer; Shaniece Holmes-Brown (2021) is a reporter for the Trumbull Times after completing a Hearst fellowship at the Houston Chronicle and Times Union in Albany, N.Y.; Lindsay Weber (2021) is a reporter for the Morning Call of Allentown; Julia Shanahan (2020) is editor of the Rappahannock News in Virginia; Jordan Wolman (2020) is reporter for Politico; Sasha Hupka (2019) is a reporter for the Arizona Republic; and Lasherica Thornton (2019) is a reporter in California for the well-regarded online education news outlet EdSource.
Here are their testimonials.
We accept donations via check and PayPal. Checks can be made out to the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association (or the PLCA) and mailed to:
Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association
524 E Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Payments via PayPal can be made by clicking the button below. Donations are not tax deductible; the PLCA is a 501c6 non-profit.
For more information, here is the latest about this summer’s internship program. And here is a list of past interns.
The PLCA is gathering applications again to hire two more college-age journalists for the summer of 2024 who want professional experience to help propel their career to the next level.
All of the money the PLCA receives for the program goes directly to pay for the interns’ salaries and any associated costs.
We believe the program has been an important building block in the experience of the young journalists who participate in it, and any donation will help it continue.
It delivers real-life reporting experience for PLCA interns, in a variety of settings, alongside professional reporters and sets up the interns up to be professionals, because they are treated as such. In short, they are expected to produce top-notch stories and by the time they finish the internship they rise to that expectation.
The PLCA’s members have a combined decades of experience covering state government and volunteer their time to work with the interns and guide them toward a career in journalism. The interns often go on to work in the newsrooms of Pennsylvania’s news organizations. Some – like Gillian McGoldrick (2018) of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Jaxon White (2022) of LNP – later become members of the PLCA.
The PLCA's 2024 interns were Trebor Maitin and Sarah Nicell. Maitin graduated from Lafayette College and is pursuing a master's degree at Columbia University's Journalism School. Nicell graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and is a campaign finance and data desk fellow at LNP in Lancaster.
The 2023 interns – Samuel O’Neal of Temple University and DaniRae Renno of Elizabethtown College – are destined for great things. O’Neal is to graduate from Temple University in 2025, is editor-in-chief of The Temple News and is interning at the Philadelphia Inquirer, covering the business of college athletics in the city. Last year, he was a sports intern at the Inquirer and interned with McClatchy, working in newsrooms on the West Coast as a general assignment reporter. Renno is managing editor of the Etownian, Elizabethtown College’s student newspaper and, in 2024, interned with Pennlive.com/The Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
Christina Baker (2022) is a reporter for the indispensable financial publication, Bond Buyer; Shaniece Holmes-Brown (2021) is a reporter for the Trumbull Times after completing a Hearst fellowship at the Houston Chronicle and Times Union in Albany, N.Y.; Lindsay Weber (2021) is a reporter for the Morning Call of Allentown; Julia Shanahan (2020) is editor of the Rappahannock News in Virginia; Jordan Wolman (2020) is reporter for Politico; Sasha Hupka (2019) is a reporter for the Arizona Republic; and Lasherica Thornton (2019) is a reporter in California for the well-regarded online education news outlet EdSource.
Here are their testimonials.
We accept donations via check and PayPal. Checks can be made out to the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association (or the PLCA) and mailed to:
Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association
524 E Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Payments via PayPal can be made by clicking the button below. Donations are not tax deductible; the PLCA is a 501c6 non-profit.
For more information, here is the latest about this summer’s internship program. And here is a list of past interns.