The Association for Women in Sports Media is proud to introduce a new program, the AWSM Internship Opportunity Grant. AWSM will pay for the salary of one female sports writing intern during the summer of 2009 at a selected newspaper, made possible by a contribution from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. In an era in which financial strains are forcing papers to reduce internships, AWSM believes that efforts to achieve greater gender diversity in sports media are more important than ever.

AWSM will reimburse the selected paper before the start of the internship for the full cost of the salary for the summer. The organization will be asked to provide documentation of its standard internship length and wage.

The intern will be placed at the selected paper through the AWSM Scholarship and Internship Program. Scholarship and Internship Program winners are picked in late fall/early winter.