Interning Around the Globe — and Around the Block
The Class of 2011 has hit the ground running (and blogging) at summer internships that are more far-flung, and more varied, than ever.
Seventeen of the 87 students are interning abroad in 12 countries — including Canada, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Liberia, and Singapore. Among the internship partners overseas: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in Winnipeg, The New York Times in New Delhi, and Fox News in Jerusalem.
“From the start, it has been very hands-on — they threw me into reporting,” said Carmel Delshad, who is working in Cairo for NPR. “And it has been a great exercise of my Arabic skills.”
Students also fanned out across the U.S. –- to The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, for example, and to CBS in San Francisco. They’re working around the block, too, for such New York City outlets as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Scientific American, PBS’s “Need to Know,” Al-Jazeera English, NY1 News, Barron’s, Crain’s New York Business, and Bloomberg News.
As in the past, some students won their internships through official competitions. Selly Thiam is a Carnegie Summer Fellow at ABC News’ investigative unit, Matt Draper landed a Dow Jones News Fund internship on The New York Post’s sports desk, and Tamy Cozier was selected for an Eddie Pinder “Nightline” Fellowship at ABC. Cozier said “Nightline” wasted no time putting her to work. For a June piece about “extreme” proms, she said, ”I went out with a producer and even got to shoot a little bit of b-roll.”
For the first time, students are experimenting with made-to-order internships — apprenticing with reporters and photographers or splitting their workweeks between two outlets. Dara Sharif divides her time between the New York bureau of TheRoot.com — a Washington Post site that covers African-American news, culture, and opinion — and Voices That Must Be Heard, an online publication recently acquired by the CUNY J-School that highlights stories from New York City’s ethnic and community press.
For her three days a week at The Root, Sharif said, “I’m writing and also sitting in on meetings where the editorial management analyzes real-time page views and unique visits to the site. I’m at Voices the other two days, curating and editing articles. Together, the two give me a full picture of the needs at both levels of journalism—national and local.”
Here’s the complete list of 2011 summer internships:
234NEXT (Lagos, Nigeria)
ABC News, Eddie Pinder “Nightline” Fellow
ABC News, Carnegie Fellow “Brian Ross investigative unit”
Afar magazine
Al Jazeera English
Al Masry Al Yom, Cairo
Al-Ahram Online, Cairo
AllMediaNY.com
APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), Winnipeg
Barron’s
Black Enterprise
Bloomberg
Bloomberg Singapore
Brooklyn Community Access TV
Business Insider
CANAL 15, Costa Rica
CBS5, “Eye on the Bay,” San Francisco
Christian Science Monitor
CNN Showbiz
Complex.com
Country Living magazine
Crain’s New York Business (4)
Creative Loafing, Charlotte NC
DNAinfo.com
Edible Manhattan
El Diario
Field and Stream
Fox News, Jerusalem
Global Post, South Africa
Grio.com
Hindustan Times, Delhi
The Hollywood Reporter
Jakarta Globe, Indonesia (3)
Kyiv Post, Ukraine
LA Downtown News
Manhattan Media
Mott Haven Herald / Hunts Point Express
NBC Local Integrated Media (2)
NBC News, New York
NBC News, Orlando
Newark Star-Ledger
Newsweek International
New Narratives, Liberia
New York Daily News (4)
New York Post, Sports Desk
New York Press
The New York Times
The New York Times, Delhi bureau
The New York Times – The Local (4)
The New York Times Video
NPR All Songs Considered
NPR, Cairo bureau
NPR Science Friday
NY1 (4)
The Observer
PBS, “Need to Know”
PBS, POV
Remedy.com
TheRoot.com
The Santiago Times, Chile
Scientific American
The Times-Picayune
Vanity Fair
Vice
WeightWatchers.com
WNYC, Brian Lehrer Show
Woman’s Day
