Student applicants must already have significant reporting experience and take a course in foreign correspondence and an optional course in international mass media. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, in fall 1995, the IIJ hosted a lively reunion of eight interns who had received the William and Shirley Fleischer Scholarship for reporting in Israel. Interns have covered such events as the Achille Lauro hijacking and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The internships are arranged by the Institute for International Journalism . Newswriting is offered every quarter.
Most students receiving internships are upperclassmen and graduate students.
March 1 of each year is the deadline application. Interns are not paid. A School of Journalism selection committee consisting of faculty members selects scholarship recipients in early spring. Those selected are then responsible for contacting their foreign correspondence employer to establish time of arrival and duty assignments. Most assignments begin in the fall.