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Join Onward State: Spring 2025 Application

Do you love Penn State? Are you passionate about writing, photography, graphic design, or journalism? Most importantly, do you like having fun? You might just be the perfect candidate to join Onward State.

Onward State is hiring for the spring semester and wants to bring aboard its next generation of writers, photographers, and graphic designers to join our team. If you want your work to be seen by hundreds of thousands of people, then a role with Onward State is for you. We’re looking for gritty, hard-working, and awesome Penn State students to join our team with the world’s finest student-run news outlet.

Onward State is, quite simply, Penn State’s blog. Since three freshmen got together in 43 Simmons in November 2008, we’ve provided a combination of commentary that is fair, authentic, and sometimes humorousanalysis that is critical and irreverentand news that is relevant and accurate.

At Onward State, we cover anything relating to Penn State and the surrounding area. We break news of politicians visiting, and canceling visits, to town. We cover Penn State’s Board of Trustees and student government. We write about protests, concerts, and other on-campus events. We cover Penn State football, from West Lafayette, Indiana, to Miami, Florida, along with 14 other Division I programs. We also have some fun, living in the HUB for 24 hours, taking deep dives into Star Wars/Abdul Carter lore, proposing new bar crawls, and much, much more.

For a better look at what Onward State does, take a dig through our 41,500-post archives.

As an Onward State staffer, you can put together the perfect mesh of tomfoolery and professionalism. Our staff members create excellent portfolios that secure them impressive jobs after graduation. It’s why we have proud Onward State alumni at the likes of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and more.

If you write for Onward State, your work will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. We garner more than 8 million visits to our website annually and plenty more traffic to our social media pages, which have more than 350,000 followers combined.

You don’t have to study journalism or be the 18th person in your family to work for Onward State, either. Onward State staffers are a diverse group from across the country with just one thing in common — we’re Penn Staters. Whether you’re on your way to a Pulitzer or just hoping to have some fun before working for Kohler, Onward State can be the best part of your Penn State experience.

If you’re interested in working for Onward State, don’t hesitate to apply! Applications are due by noon on Sunday, January 26. To apply, fill out this form.

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About the Author

Joe Lister

Joe is a senior journalism major at Penn State and Onward State's managing editor. He writes about everything Penn State and is single-handedly responsible for the 2017 Rose Bowl. If you see him at Cafe 210, please buy him a Miami pitcher. For dumb stuff, follow him on Twitter (iamjoelister). For serious stuff, email him ([email protected]). To tell him your deepest secrets, find him on Signal (iamjoelister.93).

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