Internship Memoirs

  • Becoming more ingrained in the music industry

    Becoming more ingrained in the music industry0

    This semester, I worked with The House Music Group as a press relations intern. Though the internship only lasted for this semester, I really enjoyed it. Since the summer, I have been working on my goal of being part of the music industry. Through this internship I was able to get my foot in the

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  • A highlight of my semester0

    By Angelina Zingariello For my Fall 2021 JRN 489 internship, I did public relations for the Stony Brook  Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) department. I wrote feature stories for the newsletter, ran the department’s Instagram account and wrote for its blog. For the newsletter, I interviewed WGSS alumna Suzanne Staub and wrote a feature

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  • A fulfilling internship in documentary production0

    By Caroline Klewinowski  When I first started interning for Dec8 Productions, I was incredibly nervous and prepared to fail. I had no idea what a production assistant did, let alone how cameras actually worked. I had only learned how to use a DSLR right before the pandemic, and I had sometimes set up tripods at

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  • Listen to yourself when choosing an internship0

    By Melanie Formosa For my unpaid internship with The Express News Group, I was given the tasks of copy editing and proofreading. I always knew that I had an affinity for grammar, spelling and overall writing layout. In general, people forget that there is a lengthy editing process; the journalist writes, which is important, but

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  • Media and Communications Internship at SBU’s political science department

    Media and Communications Internship at SBU’s political science department0

    By Sherin Samuel Going into the media and communications internship  with Stony Brook’s political science department, I was extremely excited but also scared that I wasn’t going to be good enough for the position. I knew it was going to be a lot of work right off the bat, but I wanted to gain experience

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  • I landed my dream internship0

    By Maya Brown CNN has been my dream company to work for for as long as I’ve known I wanted to become a journalist. In the summer of 2020, I attended the virtual NABJ/NAHJ Conference and one of my goals was to network and make at least 10 connections. When I saw that CNN was

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