The Opportunity
Run the Room is a weekly podcast about how business actually works, built from the very beginning — the idea, the customer, the money, the books, hiring, operations — with the leaders who build and run businesses as guests.
We offer a small number of unpaid, educational internships for business, communications, and management students who want real media-and-business experience: researching leaders, organizations, and how businesses actually operate, and supporting partnership outreach — with everything you produce reviewed and vetted by the producer before it is used anywhere.
Term: 12–14 weeks, aligned to your semester · 5–10 flexible hours per week, school-first
Location: Remote (United States)
Compensation: Unpaid — educational internship, designed to pair with academic credit
Reports to: Charles Mayfield, Producer
What You'll Do
- Guest research: build dossiers on business and community leaders — their organizations, how those organizations are built and run, and the public record behind both.
- Business research: gather sourced material on how businesses across industries are structured, financed, staffed, and operated — the show's subject matter, researched from primary and public sources.
- Partnership outreach support: draft outreach to prospective guests and partners for the producer's review — nothing goes out under your name or unreviewed.
- Production support: episode preparation notes, source lists, and follow-up tracking.
What You'll Learn
- How to research an organization and its leadership from primary and public sources — and verify what you find.
- How professional outreach is written, reviewed, and conducted.
- How a weekly show is planned, produced, and quality-checked end to end.
- How businesses across industries actually work — the subject of the show, learned from the inside.
Standards
- Everything you submit includes its sources. Unverifiable material is not used.
- You identify yourself honestly as an intern with Run the Room in any contact the producer assigns.
- Recording anyone requires consent, arranged through the producer — always.
- Assignment material is the show's until the producer releases it; interns do not publish it elsewhere.
This is an educational internship, not a job, and it does not promise employment. Where your school offers credit, we complete the learning agreement, supervision, and evaluation paperwork your program requires — tell us your school's process when you apply.
High School Students — Earn Credit Through an ELO
If your New Hampshire high school offers Extended Learning Opportunities (ELOs), this internship can be built as one. The way it works: your school's ELO coordinator approves a learning plan with us before you start; a certified educator at your school awards the credit; we co-design the plan with your coordinator, supervise and mentor the work, verify your hours, provide midpoint and final assessment input, and join your final presentation. Guardian consent is required, and applications and check-ins run by email with your coordinator copied. We also complete the state's work-based learning approval steps with your school.
High-school interns do the same research and production-support work described above — guest dossiers, business research, production prep — with everything vetted by the producer before use. Ask your guidance office or ELO coordinator about it, or write to us and we will send your school the partner information.
How to Apply
Email runtheroom@outlook.com with:
- Your name, school, and program or major
- A short paragraph about one business decision — any business, any size — that changed an outcome, for better or worse, and what made the difference
- Your availability for the term, and whether you are seeking academic credit (and your school's contact for it)
- One writing sample of any kind — class work is fine
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Selected applicants get a short call with the producer's office before any decision.