Internships
Drake News/Internet students intern frequently at The Des Moines Register and other newspapers, and with a variety of other media, state and local government and corporate institutions. The SJMC also partners with The Register in an apprenticeship program, in which Drake students write articles for the newspaper under the guidance of a Drake faculty member.

Career Options
Graduates work on newspaper and on-line journalism staffs, in the news departments of other news media and agencies, and in public information positions.

The program has a deserved national reputation. Its graduates work for major news organizations across the nation--including the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Morning News, Lexington (Ky.) Herald, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star, Chicago Tribune, Wisconsin State Journal, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Phoenix Gazette, Los Angeles Times, Portland Oregonian, Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Omaha World-Herald, and the Associated Press.

Its graduates include John Mathew, chief executive officer of Wick Communications Co., owner of more than 40 newspapers and allied products in 12 states; Margaret McCay, director of personnel for the Associated Press, the world's largest news-gathering service; Al Leeds, president of the Washington Post-Los Angeles Times news service, Donna Gehrke, who shared in a Pulitzer Prize at the Miami Herald; Tom Hallman, nationally known reporter/writer at the Portland Oregonian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2001; Diane Graham, former managing editor at The Des Moines Register, and Mark Bowden, editor at the Cedar Rapids Gazette.