(L-R) BCN interns, Spencer Otte, Prachi Singh and Deidre Foley after participating in the BCN staff photo class held at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)

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Training at every stage

Staff at Bay City News are provided with training at every step of their careers, from intern to junior reporter to senior editor. Staff and interns have been trained on Office 365, data analysis and visualizations through Power BI, geotagging and mapping, research techniques, diversity, equity and inclusion, and solutions journalism. We are adding an AI component to our training in 2025. Additional training priorities include the “how to” basics that form a strong professional foundation for journalists: avoiding libel and slander, writing a good headline, conducting interviews and dealing with hostile sources, working in a professional environment with an editor, and building organizational and personal brands. Our business interns work on audience engagement, customer relations and strategic advertising and sales initiatives.

Here’s what our interns said

Our summer 2026 interns

Kayla Chan

A Stanford University student with interests in investigative and data journalism, Kayla is particularly interested in criminal justice reporting and uncovering compelling human stories through deep research.

Valerie Conklin

Another Craig Newmark School of Journalism student, Valerie is looking forward to sharpening her deadline reporting skills while getting to know the Bay Area. Her interests include climate adaptation, community issues and LGBTQ+ reporting.

Lloyd Davis

A student at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism, Lloyd is passionate about arts, culture and stories from Black communities. He hopes to grow as both a reporter and photojournalist this summer.

Hans Haenicke

A master’s student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, Hans comes with a background in news product management, audience research and editorial strategy. He is excited to deepen his passion for local news and expand his skills in audience development and digital product innovation. 

Katie Hulse

A recent UC Berkeley graduate in English literature and political economy, Katie is interested in environmental reporting, local politics, arts and culture, and the ways public policy shapes communities. After writing for The Daily Californian, producing news coverage at KALX Radio, and reporting on climate and sustainability issues for EARTHDAY.ORG, she is eager to continue building her reporting experience.

Kelcie Lee

A UC Berkeley student from San Francisco, Kelcie is passionate about public-service journalism, politics, and local government. She enjoys tackling complex topics and making them accessible to readers.

Joshua Olajide Olawuyi

A graduate student at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, Joshua is a storyteller, documentary filmmaker and multimedia producer with experience across journalism and media production. He is passionate about using compelling narratives to connect communities, amplify diverse voices and explore issues that impact everyday people.

Savana Robinson

A Mendocino County journalist and Cal Poly Humboldt graduate, Savana has experience across television, radio, print and digital media. She is dedicated to telling stories that matter to the communities she serves.

Adam Sutro

A Northwestern University student and Oakland native, Adam has extensive experience covering sports but is excited to branch into topics such as transportation, urban planning and criminal justice closer to home.

Emily Tenorio Molina

A graduate student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Emily focuses on business and health reporting. She is especially interested in covering economic and community development issues in Contra Costa County.

Josephine Tsai

A graduate student at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism in New York City and a retired physician, Josephine brings a unique perspective to health and science reporting. She’s also eager to expand her skills in audio journalism and long-form storytelling.

Eric Urbach

A lifelong Bay Area resident and recent UC Berkeley graduate, Eric is inspired by journalism’s ability to connect communities and hold power accountable. He plans to continue building his reporting skills before beginning graduate studies this fall.

Christopher Vinasco-Gomez

 A Stanford University student studying mathematics and creative writing, Christopher is drawn to deeply reported, human-centered stories that help readers see their communities in new ways. After reporting for The Stanford Daily, he is eager to build his local reporting experience and tell stories about people and issues that are often overlooked.

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Our summer 2025 interns

George Clyde

George Clyde is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he directs the video team at The Badger Herald, producing feature videos and live event coverage. He has completed internships with Agence France-Presse in New York,

Autumn S. DeGrazia

Autumn DeGrazia is a student at San Francisco State University studying photojournalism with a minor in Spanish. A transfer student from Solano Community College, where she earned a degree in French, Autumn has served as visuals editor for Xpress

Katie Eritano

Katie Eritano is a senior at Stanford University majoring in communication with a minor in data science. A returning student, she spent several years working in postproduction and service jobs before resuming her studies. Katie is passionate about data storytelling

Sobhan Hassanvand

Sobhan Hassanvand is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism with a focus on digital storytelling and social media. Based in the Bay Area, he is working this summer on building out Local News Matters’ social media strategy and experiment

Audrey Tomlin

Audrey Tomlin is a student at Stanford University, where she studies journalism and creative writing. She covers student government for The Stanford Daily and serves as desk editor for The Grind, which focuses on creative nonfiction. Audrey is also an editor for The Leland

Samantha Kennedy

Samantha Kennedy is a student at San Francisco State University, where she is majoring in criminal justice studies with a minor in journalism. She is an on-call reporter at KQED News and reports on city government and education for The Contra Costa

Finbar LaBelle

Finbar LaBelle is a graduate of Bennington College, where they studied theatre and literature, also writing for The Lens. A native San Franciscan, Finbar has spent the last year freelancing in the Bay Area having been published in the San Francisco Chronicle,

Hannah Sung

Hannah Sung is a student at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in urban studies and journalistic writing. She is currently the Digital Managing Editor at 34th Street, UPenn’s arts and culture magazine. She previously served as music editor and worked on the

Andres Jimenez Larios

Andres Jimenez Larios is a graduate student at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, where he focuses on multimedia storytelling as member of the Dean’s Fellowship program and Mark Litke International Reporting Fellowship. A Southern California

Anna Tran

Anna Tran is a re-entry student at UC Berkeley majoring in global studies with a concentration in peace and conflict in Asia, and minoring in journalism. She is interested in exploring how global dynamics affect local communities and plans to report

Celeste Wang

Celeste Wang is a student in the dual BA program between Columbia University and SciencesPo University in Paris. She is studying political economics with a minor in Constitutional Law. Celeste currently serves as Anglophone co-editor of The Sundial Press,

Austin Zeglis

Austin Zeglis is a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism specializing in media innovation and content strategy. He previously earned his undergraduate degree in economics at the University of Chicago, where he also

2025 Intern Capstone Projects

Each year, we offer paid college-level internships, hands-on newsroom experience and one-on-one mentorship to up to 10 aspiring journalists. Our interns take on daily assignments, sharpen their reporting skills and build strong portfolios to launch their careers.

As a capstone to their summer, each intern produces an in-depth project or story tackling critical issues in the 13 counties we cover from Mendocino to Monterey. The work from our 2025 cohort helped bring attention to AIDS funding at risk, inequity in access to nature, young artists fighting for the arts in San Francisco and more. Check out their work:

2024 Intern Capstone Projects

Want to see more of the great work done by our former interns? Our 2024 cohort helped uncover disparities in voter turnout, gaps in food security, unspent environmental cleanup funds and more. Check out their work:

Past Interns (2018-2024)

Internships are an important way to give emerging journalists the practical experience they need to learn skills, try out the craft and build the basics of what could become a lifelong career. Bay City News is committed to providing internships to students at different ages and stages of their studies. We have provided a variety of breaking news and enterprise experience and also encouraged interns to take on a bigger project to set their portfolios apart. We have provided opportunities for 41 interns since the program began in 2018. They include:

Riley Cooke

Riley is an intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at the UC Berkeley, where she studies political science and journalism. Previously, she was the university news editor at her student newspaper The Daily Californian,

Cameron Fozi

Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for

Anna Leah

Anna Leah comes to Local News Matters from over fifteen years in documentary film – including a docu-series examining the national reach of conspiratorial thinking, never-before-seen materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and a history of currency.

Alise Maripuu

Alise Maripuu is an intern at BCN with a focus on covering the Peninsula. Originally from San Carlos, Alise discovered her passion for journalism after studying abroad in Thailand during her senior year attending UC Santa Cruz. Her experience in Thailand taught her

Astrid Casimire

Astrid Casimire was a summer 2020 intern for Bay City News covering equity issues, the coronavirus pandemic and breaking news in San Mateo County. She graduated from Stanford University’s journalism program in 2020 and has

Catherine Allen

Catherine Allen was a data intern through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, with a major in journalism and minor in statistics. Catherine previously served as editor

Isaac Ceja

Isaac Ceja was a 2nd year student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism with a concentration in photojournalism. He has experience shooting studio and field portraits, sporting teams like the Oakland Roots and is currently

Benjamin Coleman

Benjamin Coleman was a recent graduate from UC Berkeley where he triple-majored in English, Political Science and Legal Studies with a Journalism minor. Benjamin spent four years as a sports reporter, podcast producer and sports editor for the Dail

Aditi Praveen Kariyanahalli

Aditi Praveen Kariyanahalli is a digital media intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at Fordham University, double majoring in journalism and political science. She serves as the arts & culture editor at The

Cole Reynolds

Cole Reynolds is a rising junior at Northwestern University, where he studies journalism and anthropology. He has previously served as managing editor for The Daily Northwestern. In that role, he was part of the team that revealed

Catherine Allen

Catherine Allen was a data intern through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, with a major in journalism and minor in statistics. Catherine previously served as

Molly Burke

Molly Burke was an intern on the data team at Bay City News. She is studying investigative journalism at Northwestern University. She has previously covered breaking news for The Sacramento Bee and The Denver Post. Molly has also worked

Mark Allen Cu

Mark Allen Cu was a current first-year student at Stanford University studying Communication and International Relations at the time of his internship. Growing up on the San Diego-Tijuana border, Mark specializes in telling underreported stories about

Christine Delianne

Christine Delianne was a rising junior at Stanford University when she joined Bay City News in the summer of 2021. She was The Stanford Daily’s equity reporter for the news section and an editor for The Grind, the personal narrative section. She’s also an avid runner

Ally Dickson

Ally Dickson was a rising junior journalism student at New York University at the time of her internship. She is originally from Los Altos, CA. Ally is also majoring in International Relations. Last semester, Ally started writing for her school paper, Washington Square News at

Mengyuan Dong

Mengyuan Dong was a first-year grad student at UC Berkeley, where she’s pursuing her master’s degree in journalism. Originally from Beijing, China, Mengyuan has interned at Chinese news outlets covering COVID-19, environment and global issues and produced

Ugur Dursun

Ugur Dursun, as a student at Stanford University, worked for two summers at BCN, in 2019 and 2020 before joining the staff. They worked on covering breaking news and curating social media for Bay City News, Bay City News Foundation and LocalNewsMatters.

Joe Dworetzky

Joe Dworetzky was a second career intern at the Bay City News Foundation in the fall of 2020. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings

Paige Ellis

Paige Ellis worked as an intern for Bay City News in the summers of 2021 and 2022 prior to entering her junior year at UCSB. She worked on social media platforms for Local News Matters and a geotagging mapping project to help identify areas that need more
Diego Felix

Diego Felix

Diego Felix was an intern in 2020 while also pursuing studies in journalism and criminal justice at San Francisco State University. Hailing from the East Bay, Diego hopes to become a sports reporter. He has always been fascinated by criminology. His

Deidre Foley

Deidre Foley was an intern at Bay City News and an MA candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she specializes in data journalism and health & science reporting. Previously she was managing editor for the San Francisco

Tilly Friedlander

Tilly Friedlander, a junior at UCLA, worked for a full summer at BCN in 2020. In addition to writing breaking news and stories about the North Bay, Tilly helped to build the COVID-19 Information Hub and wrote stories about equity issues in the community

Alexandra Jade Garcia

Alexandra Jade Garcia was a current sophomore at UC Berkeley studying Society & Environment at the time of her internship at Bay City News. Her experience growing up in the South Bay Area has been formative to her passion for social and environment

Helena Getahun-Hawkins

Helena Getahun-Hawkins was an intern at Bay City News through Stanford’s Rebele Fellowship. She’s a rising junior at Stanford majoring in International Relations and minoring in Spanish. She writes for The Stanford Daily under the campus life desk and

Olivia Green

Olivia Green is a senior multimedia communications student concentrating in journalism at Howard University. She’s worked as a feature reporter for The Baltimore Sun, and Howard’s The Hilltop, and has managed social media accounts for other campus

Jackson Guilfoil

Jackson Guilfoil was a Bay City News intern in 2021, writing about news and features for the newswire and Local News Matters. He earned his degree at UC Santa Barbara, where he wrote for the Daily Nexus, covering a variety of beats from labor issues to student

Victoria Hsieh

Victoria Hsieh was a sophomore at Stanford University while working as an intern at BCN. She has been studying computer science. She has a strong interest in health equity and mental health advocacy and currently writes for her school paper The Stanford

Thomas Hughes

Helena Getahun-Hawkins was an intern at Bay City News through Stanford’s Rebele Fellowship. She’s a rising junior at Stanford majoring in International Relations and minoring in Spanish. She writes for The Stanford Daily under the campus life desk

Rya Jetha

Rya Sara Jetha was a summer 2022 business reporting intern at BCN through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at Pomona College studying history and politics. She interned at The Indian Express in Mumbai and writes for The Student Life,

Jana Kadah

Jana Kadah was a San Jose-based intern covering the South Bay in the summer of 2020. Before coming to Bay City News, she reported on the refugee crisis in Greece and Italy in Arabic and worked as the managing editor for San Jose State’s daily newspaper,

Dania Kalaji

Dania Kalaji was a rising senior at the University of Georgia in Athens studying journalism and minoring in film studies. An award-winning journalist, she will be a Dow Jones News Fund copy editing and multimedia intern with BCNF and Local News Matters, where

Stephanie Lam

Stephanie Lam was a 2021 summer intern for Bay City News while working toward a journalism degree at San Jose State University, where she was the assistant news editor for the student run newspaper, Spartan Daily. She is interested in reporting on local issues

Samantha Laurey

Samantha Laurey, a student at San Francisco State University, worked during 2020 to help document Martinez and parts of Contra Costa County with photographs that were published on Bay City News and LocalNewsMatters. She also did feature assignments

Camille Legendre

Camille Legendre joined the Bay City News team in 2020 as an intern on the overnight shift, writing and editing breaking news. She also curated stories from Local News Matters and news partners such as EdSource and San Jose Spotlight. She is a true Bay Area native,

Nuria Marquez Martinez

Nuria Marquez Martinez, a graduate of the UCB graduate journalism program, worked at BCN in 2018 and 2019. She did a variety of breaking news shifts and also worked on a package about non-citizens voting in the 2018 San Francisco school board election. She went on

Cash Martinez

Cash Martinez was a student journalist at San Francisco State University during their fall 2020 internship. They covered education, local politics, and LGBTQ+ issues in the North Bay. In the past, they have written for the Press Democrat, Sonoma Magazine,

Megan Munce

Megan Munce was a Bay City News intern through the Emma Bowen Foundation in summer 2021 while a rising senior at Northwestern University studying journalism and political science. She served on Daily Northwestern’s editorial board for two years, covering student

Spencer Otte

Spencer Otte recently graduated from Cal Sate Fullerton, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. At Fullerton, he was the news editor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Titan and covered the 2022 midterm elections, the 2021 Orange

Claudia Russell

Claudia Russell was a senior at Head-Royce School in Oakland when she worked as an intern for BCN in 2018. Her special project was to create a comprehensive database of regional public agencies and public information officers to help the entire team with reporting

Kate Selig

Kate Selig was a winter 2020 intern for BCN, writing a series of profiles about arts organizations and nonprofits published on Local News Matters. She was a rising sophomore at Stanford who took a year off to pursue journalism internships. She served

Lydia Sidhom

Lydia Sidhom was a rising third-year at UC Berkeley studying Data Science and Political Science. She was a Dow Jones News Fund intern for Bay City News. Lydia was a lead beat reporter, deputy news editor and projects developer for

Prachi Singh

Prachi was a Dow Jones News Fund intern at Bay City News. She is a journalism graduate from University of Southern California. She previously worked at Annenberg Media as a Multimedia Journalist and the Managing Editor. Prachi has covered social

Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith was a rising senior at UC Berkeley where she is studying Political Science and Journalism. She is passionate about multimedia journalism and local news. Before coming to Bay City News, Rebecca worked in public

Annie Steuart

Annie Steuart, a graduate of Head-Royce School, worked for a summer at BCN between high school and college in 2018. She wrote a lot of stories about Bay Area events, news and nonprofits. She entered Kenyon College as a freshman in fall 2019.

Nibras Suliman

Nibras was an intern at Bay City News through the Emma Bowen Foundation. At the time of her internship, she was a rising senior at the University of California, Berkeley, studying Media and Data Science. She is passionate about the intersection of data and

Charles Wellington Ayitey

Charles was a Knight Foundation intern at Bay City News and a Master of Journalist candidate at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He freelanced for Oakland Side and Oakland North on race, equity, and health outcomes in

Olivia Wynkoop

Olivia Wynkoop was a student journalist at San Francisco State University, originally from Dixon, California. She’s been managing editor, social media editor and reporter for her university’s student-run paper, Golden Gate Xpress. She also previously interned