internship opportunities

Here are resources available to Washington and Lee students which will help to identify internship opportunities, particularly in politics, journalism, and related fields.   Remember to check with W&L's Career Services folks, too.

BASICS

Internship Series Online

W&L subscribes to this password-protected commercial service, which is particularly valuable because the listings are kept fairly up-to-date.   You can browse through over a dozen subject-specific collections, listing opportunities from about 28,000 organizations.   Among the subject collections are Washington Internships in Law and Policy, Congressional Internship Book, Media Internship Book, and Internships with Communities and Social Service Agencies.

Annie Search

Click on the link above for an up-to-date search of Annie, the W&L library catalog, for any form of the word "internship," with the resulting listing arranged by publication dates.   At this point, we have very few recent books about internships, because they go out-of-date so quickly and because so much information is available online.   But if you would like to recommend a very recent book, please contact Dick Grefe.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Public Policy Groups / Think Tanks

This is a Google-based search engine which accesses the Web site of over 170 important "think tanks" and similar organizations, many of which are based in Washington, D.C.   Simply enter the word internship.   If you want to select one specific organization, select from this list and use that site's own search option to find the word internship.

You can find information about most of thse groups in the Encyclopedia of Associations.

Congress

You can search for the word internship in the contents of both the Senate and House of Representatives Web sites.  Look for the "Search" option in the upper-right corner of both sites.   These searches will access members' pages, committee pages, and more.   You can try more complex searches -- such as internship AND finance or internship AND florida -- if you want to try for a more focused result.  

(Note: This option is likely to be more up-to-date than the Congressional Intership Book mentioned above, but less well-organized.)

Government Internships

This is a great starting point for U.S. Government possibilities, including the latest Internships Opportunities guide.  Also provided are databases of student-related jobs, White House Internships, science internships, and opportunities in state government.

JOURNALISM AND MASS MEDIA

Professional Sites

This Google-based search engine taps these professional associations and issue-related Web sites for students of journalism, mass media, and communications research.    If you want to select one specific organization, select one from the lists and use that site's own search option to find the word internship.

Jobs and Internships

This employment-related collection is intended to provide easy access to some noteworthy jrouanlism and mass media jobs and internship sites.