Summer Media Internship

My name, as above, is Aaron Monteabaro and I’ll be working on a new food news blog now-called the East 20’s Project, run by the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College.

My responsibilities during the term include generating story ideas, as well as researching, reporting and writing a minimum of 3 feature-length stories based on the food community of the East 20’s in Manhattan, and produce a multimedia piece to accompany them.

In terms of my personal goals, there are the obvious; I would like to earn some credit and develop some good clips.  However, I’m aching for a chance to report and write in the ‘real’ world, and this project gives me an opportunity to do so in a way that will hopefully build the blog into a long-lasting and influential news outlet while at the same time benefiting the community that hosts us.

I’m certain that the experience will be a great teacher.