ABC News is launching a new initiative to tap college students as newsgatherers.  “ABC News on Campus” is a joint venture with five of the top journalism schools in the United States: The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University; the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University; the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of Journalism and Mass Communications; and the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism.

Students, selected and vetted by professors and ABC News, will have the chance to produce content for all the ABC News platforms and work with mentors from the network.  In each bureau, one student will be hired as “bureau chief”—and unlike many news internships, participating students will be paid.