Better Know a District
Ever watched Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know a District Segment”? Story of my life. Today, I had to clean out a file cabinet which was supposed to have 100 files (1 for each Senator) and 435 files (1...
View ArticleEnvironmental Impact of Interning
Ok, I know I just posted. I just became a little aware that I can get compensated for 10 blogs, but not fewer than 10… I doubt I’ll write 5 more blogs in the next week, but you never know. At the...
View ArticleReporting on my home state
So I went to school in D.C. and got an internship at a national news outlet, PBS MediaShift. And I ended up covering the state of media in my home state. Figures. Just kidding, I had a great time. I...
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Podcasting from a grocery store
As I take on more responsibilities at PBS MediaShift, I’ve had to improvise a bit. For an internship about the digital revolution of media, the irony that the digital media revolted is inescapable. For...
View ArticleDon’t be afraid to ask
Interning can be expensive. Living, eating, transportation. It makes it hard for people of limited resources to have the opportunity to intern. That’s why a federal judge on June 11 ruled, with...
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Why I intern abroad
I’ve been asked a lot recently — by friends in the U.S., by American friends in Costa Rica, by Costa Rican friends in Costa Rica — why I’m continuing my internship at PBS MediaShift while studying...
View ArticleAt GF: A Day in the Life
My day starts when I enter the third floor office and drop my stuff off at the “intern bar” that I share with a couple other interns working with Bankers without Borders and the financial departments....
View ArticleIntroducing New Spring Blogger: Sofia Baneth
My name is Sofia Baneth and I am one of the new spring bloggers for the AU Career Center. I am a freshman from Raleigh, NC currently interning at Machik, a non-profit in DuPont (description and link...
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GF Showcased Work
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve worked to redesign several documents (toolkits) with the new GF marketing pack and also have had to translate some documents into Spanish to market our 2014...
View ArticleA Day In The Life of a DBC PR+New Media Intern
Working at DBC PR means a lot of hard work, everyday of the week. Interns usually begin by creating daily news clips that we send out to the teams. The news clips cover the PR industry and the main...
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