St Agatha’s 2020 Summer Youth Media Program

St Agatha’s News School is seeking to hire Chicago youth, ages 16-24, for our Summer Media Program. This is a six week media internship involving an active commitment to full participation in the learning process. Participants will be paid a bi-weekly salary to learn how to write and report news stories in our printed publications, on our online radio station and on our Video News Desk. Upon completion, participants will receive:

1) A Press Pass they can use for access to press events to cover local stories

2) Certificate of completion from Frackle media and St. Agatha

3) Employment recommendation (Based on passing a certification exam administered by “The News School.“)

This year, we were not given much time to recruit candidates for the summer youth media program. In fact, we are actually out of time as we need all applications completed by 6 pm, Wednesday June 3, 2020. We appreciate your support to help us reach our 2020 summer enrollment goal.

Interested youth should fill out the form below and we will get back you. You can also call Mr. Chandler at 872-201-7522.

If you want to get a head start, once you fill out the form below, you can go the the following link to One Summer Chicago and fill it out too. Please make sure you select Phalanx Family Services as your provider.

One Summer Chicago 2020 Application