Media and Communications Internship at SBU’s political science department
- Internship Memoirs
- January 29, 2021
By Charles Scott This summer, I wrote for the Smithtown News. I spent six weeks building banks of information and contacts, awkwardly finding spots suitable for note-taking in busy press conferences and protests, and writing a mix of joyously reported stories, drawn-out research pieces and punched-up press releases. I took on almost a dozen stories,
READ MOREBy Felicia LaLomia Last December, when I wrote emails to about 20 different food and drink-focused publications asking for internships, I had no idea what would come of it. Sending the email equivalent of a cold-call blindly into the internet, I set my expectations low. There was no incentive for any of these editors to
READ MOREBy Gary Ghayrat When I started interning at The Southampton Press, the first thing I noticed was the size of the place. Twenty or so people worked inside a one-story building. And just a 10-minute drive away was the so-called “Billionaire’s Lane” of the Hamptons, with lavish properties that are easily double, even triple, the
READ MOREBy Joe McQueen My interest in public radio came during my first semester at Stony Brook, in the fall of 2018, when I started listening to NPR on a daily basis. I started to really like it, and I wanted to learn more about the industry. It was during January break when I contacted Terry
READ MOREBy Liz Pulver Before spending my summer interning at WSHU, I had never done audio journalism before. I knew some basics of Audition, but outside of that, I came in to WSHU at square one. At WSHU, they believe in learning by doing. And thanks to Terry Sheridan, Jay Shah and JD Allen, that is
READ MOREBy Rachael Eyler If you had told me a few years ago that at age 20 I would intern at BBC, the company that has been my dream job since 15, I would have agreed with every person who said that it was impossible. Well, here I am, 20 years old, interning for BBC Reel,
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