Develop your radio skills with our TY Media Week Programme and our Journalism Graduate Programme
Learning Waves, the training body for the Independent Radio Sector in Ireland, offers TY students and graduates a route to the sector in Ireland through its training and content creation initiatives.
TY Media Week
The TY Media Week offers students the unique opportunity to research, create and present content that matters to them on one of Ireland’s Independent Radio stations in Ireland.
It is a unique programme where students become immersed in a radio station for a week, where they will be supported by a mentor who will take them through a training programme designed by Learning Waves.
During the week students will get the opportunity to meet their radio heroes, create content that matters to them, have their voice heard on radio, get an insiders view on radio and create new connections. The content created by the students is broadcast on the radio station in which they complete their TY Media Week.
Students are required to complete an application form in order to take part in the programme.
Students are then selected by the station and the programme commences.
In many cases students who have completed this programme have gone on to create podcasts, to present programmes on Christmas schedules in radio stations and many are now studying media in third level colleges.
To register your interest in the 2026 programme go to:
Journalism Graduate Programme
In addition to offering opportunities for TY students, Learning Waves has developed an internship for Journalism Graduates.
This programme offers 10 graduates the opportunity to work in one on Irelands Independent Radio stations for a period of 5 months. This is a paid internship and graduates are supported on the internship by a training programme devised by Learning Waves.
In 2025, 9 out of the 10 graduates on this programme received full-time employment in the sector on completion of the internship.
In addition to this, graduates, on successful completion of the programme, receive a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the London College of Music. Graduates who have completed the programme have also won awards at the IMRO radio awards for content created during the programme.
Applications are now open for the 2026 programme, to apply for the 2026 programme go to:
http://www.learningwaves.ie/journalism-graduate-programme
