Summer Media Internship

My name is Lisa Gomez. I am interning on the set of Open, a show on Bronxnet, which is a public access channel in the Bronx. Some of my duties there include working with cameras, audio, graphics, and video editing.

I’ve always had an interest in working in television and after taking TV Journalism Basics here at Baruch, I became more interested in both the behind the scenes and on air realms of television.

I’m very interested in NYC culture and lifestyle and would someday love to host a NYC culture show (something along the lines of Toni On! New York, Cool in Your Code, or That’s So New York).

Hi, I am interning with The Brooklyn Paper as a photojournalist. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I am “on call” pretty much. I am working with two staff writers, and for the editor. When they have a story that needs a photograph they call me and ask that I go get a photo and send it to them. It’s really a lot of fun. And I enjoy the experience I am getting in this field. I hope to get better at taking news style images.

I am also going to Ecuador this summer to study Spanish, and work on organic farms. I am going to learn about indigenous plants and reforestation, and about local agriculture as it relates to local economics. I will be doing a photo essay about my travels. I want to find an interesting story to report on.

I, by mistake, posted my introduction in a comment as like many did. So here it is all over again, short and sweet =]

Daniel Fabiani:

Interning at QUEENS LEDGER and will be writing hard news stories, profiles, entertainment, as well as working with myriad multi-media from text alerts to web design, cameras, etc.

I hope to take away a great set of articles from this internship, as well as some bravery, and of course knowledge of the writing/publishing world.

Already wrote two profile stories based in Queens and Brooklyn that are going to press. And I’ve covered “June in Jackson Heights” a month long arts festival sponsored by City Council member Daniel Dromm (D-New York) to put the town back on the map.

Hello, everyone. My name is Dave Feldman, and this summer, I’m interning at 101.9RXP. For those that don’t know, RXP is a rock and roll radio station that broadcasts out of the West Village. Radio and broadcast media have been very interesting journalism/music mediums to me ever since I joined Baruch’s radio station three years ago (I have since been promoted to the school’s music director).

To be honest, my duties at RXP are far more trivial and are largely based with promotions and getting the station’s name out to everyone in the tri-state area. This includes managing the email list (or “Rock Republic” list), handling contests, talking to contest winners, reviewing emails to different companies who may want to sponsor events, and attending and assembling station events either alone or with a small team of interns.

It may seem basic, but I believe my tasks will help establish myself someday in radio broadcast. As a fan of rock and roll and radio (not to mention as a musician myself), I think that this internship is a good starting point in what I feel would be an exciting career.

So I have already showed a little bit of the whimsical person that I am, having accidently posted my introduction as a comment. As you can tell, I am not completely familiar this website as of yet, but hopefully in time I will get the hang of it. 

My name is Sophia Tsang and I am interning at Track Entertainment. My position is an intern journalist. I work and write content for the Clubplanet department which deals mostly with music, nightlife, venues and lifestyle, but it is not as exciting as it sounds. I research, fact-check, edit and post articles. Additionally I approve or deny events that are available to be viewed on the website. Occasionally I make phone interviews to venue owners.

My goals for this internship is simply to gain some experience working in the field of entertainment news. I am hoping to improve my writing skills and simply learn as much as possible. Also I hope to network and meet new people.

Hello Fellow Interns and Professor Mills,
My name is Julia German and I am an intern at the Edith and Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst. My summer responsibilities first consisted of creating press releases, proof-reading and copy-editing, writing articles for various Russian newspapers, and creating outreach pamphlets and brochures. But last week I was given an amazing opportunity to test my skills in the Journalism and Public Relations fields. The JCH has given me, on top of all my prior responsibilities, the task of creating a Journalism studio which I will run at the end of August in one of their teen camps. I will begin creating the educational materials next week, under the careful watch of my supervisor. I can’t begin to describe how truly honored I am by this assignment. At the end of this internship, I hope to sharpen my writing skills, become more comfortable speaking in front of others, and receive the experience I need to begin my exciting career in the Journalism field. Yet my main goal in all of this is to show the young teens that are participating in the Summer Journalism Studio, that this field is thrilling, lucrative, and most of all significant in today’s world.

-JG

Hi, my name is Angel Rosario. I’m interning in the sports department at NBC. My responsibilities right now are to put highlights of sports videos on a timeline and I also have been gathering facts and information from around sports.

My goal is simply to experience a little bit of what it’s like to be a journalist in the real world. While I’ve had numerous internships in the past, they have all been in areas other than journalism. Interning at NBC will be a great experience in terms of learning some of the intricacies of being a journalist and has already and will continue to allow me to meet some great people who work in the field.

My full name, as per my passport and driver license, is Rappaport, Chaya Rivka but in school I go by Chaya. I’ll be working this summer for Baruch College Now, a college journalism program for high school students, as a journalism assistant. My understanding is that my responsibility will be to work with the students, editing their stories and being a general help. I’ll find out if I have the right impression on June 29, when I have my first meeting.

Hello Everyone,

My name is Alejandro (Alex) Bracetti and I am fortunate this summer to be working as an editorial intern for Complex Magazine. My initial goals at the magazine will be to assist the Lifestyle department with a number of editorial duties, such as writing content, editing, proofreading and fact checking for Complex.com.

Having worked as a freelancer for the past two years, my goal through this internship is to gain more in-house editorial experience. I look to work close with the lifestyle editor and tech writers to help revamp they’re online website; plus gain clips for my portfolio. In addition, I look to move up within Complex and come onboard as a staff writer by the end of the semester. Hopefully my goals can be achieved, but during these hard economic times in the field, it’ll be a challenge to standout among an intern team of at least 30 others. Nevertheless, I’m ready to make my mark.

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.