MCPR \u2013 PR Intern (Hospitality + Tourism) Summer. 2025At — Modern Currency PR
Modern Currency PR, an award-winning, boutique luxury hospitality & marketing public relations agency based in Los Angeles, CA, seeks super savvy internship candidates with a deep interest in hospitality to join our growing team in Summer 2025 (May/June – August). Candidates must possess a passion for luxury travel, restaurants, food culture/lifestyle (think recipes, food trends), and wanderlust for international travel/tourism to work intimately alongside a team of seasoned senior-level media industry professionals within an engaging boutique agency environment.
The unpaid internship will be virtually-based and remote (ideally, at least 3 days per week) between 9am – 5:30pm PST. All candidates must be enrolled in college and eligible to receive academic credit. Ideal candidates will possess previous internship/professional experience.
Interested candidates can share resumes directly at skylar@moderncurrencypr.com and jordan@moderncurrencypr.com.
Skills Required:
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Be self-motivated, take initiative, and demonstrate appropriate follow-through
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize with attention to detail: proofreading, grammar, fact-checking
- Ability to take direction and constructive feedback and move forward productively
- Proactive knowledge sharing
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Supply own laptop for use on the job
The types of skills an intern at MCPR can expect to gain hands-on experience in include:
- Creative Writing + Press materials: press releases, media alerts, editorial story angles, and unique pitch creation
- Event coordination: media-attended events and the hospitality/tourism industry
- Client Service: creative brainstorming for client pitches, events, and programming, curation of client clip reports, briefing and memos, media profiles/backgrounds, and other documents
- Business development: responding to RFPs, new business pitching, agency capabilities presentations
- Immersion into all varieties of media (print, digital, broadcast, and social) as it pertains to both the team’s practice and targeted client markets
Training:
- Students will receive hands-on mentorship & an immersive learning experience through 1-1 project trainings and an in-depth onboarding process
- Students will receive regular check-in meetings with supervisors & real-time feedback meetings
- Students are invited to participate in agency weekly calls, shadow client calls & monthly agency training sessions (i.e. media list building, admin overviews, pitch writing workshops)
- Students will have the opportunity to develop their PR skills through writing projects, reporting, media list building & more
Learning Outcome:
- Understand the inner workings of hospitality & travel PR
- How to write effective pitches
- Critical organizational skills
- Insight into how the stories come to life (journalist conversations)
- How to communicate results + ROI to clients
Training:
- Students will receive hands-on mentorship & an immersive learning experience through 1-1 project trainings and an in-depth onboarding process
- Students will receive regular check-in meetings with supervisors & real-time feedback meetings
- Students are invited to participate in agency weekly calls, shadow client calls & monthly agency training sessions (i.e. media list building, admin overviews, pitch writing workshops)
- Students will have the opportunity to develop their PR skills through writing projects, reporting, media list building & more
Learning Outcome:
- Understand the inner workings of hospitality & travel PR
- How to write effective pitches
- Critical organizational skills
- Insight into how the stories come to life (journalist conversations)
- How to communicate results + ROI to clients