Where interns are heading

By Kaylee Porter and Eli Hermann
J-School Web reporters

Internship applications submitted in December or January start bearing fruit around this time of the for journalism students. Every journalism student is required to complete an internship. Here’s a look at some destinations:

Elizabeth Rauf, a graduate student, and Amber Kuehn, a junior in print, both have accepted sports copy editing internships through the Association of Women in Sports Media.  Rauf will be at the Miami Herald for eight weeks this summer and will attend the AWSM convention in Miami this February.  Kuehn will be at the Virginian Pilot.

Leslie Brown, a junior majoring in print, has secured a summer internship in Quito, Ecuador.  She will be working as an editor for V!VA Travel Guides, as well as maintaining their Website.  The internship last two months and is unpaid. “I’m doing it because it’s good experience and really good Spanish practice,” Brown said.

Ashley Zuelke and Bess Davis, juniors in print journalism, both were awarded Dow Jones copy editing internships.  Zuelke will be at the copy desk of the Tacoma News Tribune this summer and Davis will be working at the Indianapolis Star.

Russel Daniels, a photojournalism junior, will be working for the AP’s Chicago bureau for 12 weeks this summer.  He is one of only three AP photo interns in the nation.
Daniels credits his upcoming internship to the weeklong AP workshop he took and his two previous internships. “I feel very lucky,” Daniels said.  “I think my experience has allowed me to do this.”

Joe Slemberger, a junior majoring in print journalism, will spend his summer with the Missoula AIDS Council, writing their quarterly news letter.“It will be good because I am going to be totally on my own. It’s a definite learning experience,” Slemberger said. His internship starts in May and will last until he feels like quitting, he said.

Anne Medley, a current UM photojournalism graduate student, recently won 3rd place in the NPPA individual video contest for her multimedia story about Missoula’s controversial “chicken ordinance.”  Here's her video.

Recent graduates are also seizing new opportunities.

K’Lynn Sloan, a 2007 graduate of The University of Montana radio-television department, has landed a job with MTV.  She will serve as a citizen journalist contributing to MTV’s Choose or Lose Street Team ’08 election coverage.
“This is an amazing opportunity, because I’ll get a chance to tell great and often untold stories about the issues facing the young people in this state, and I’ll get to share these stories with a national audience.” Sloan’s videos can be found here.

School of Journalism print graduate Monica Fouts has been hired as a reporter and photographer for a community weekly in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Where will your summer internship take you? Email Kaylee at krista.porter@umontana.edu.

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