Increasingly, internship experience gives applicants the competitive edge in today’s media job market. Most journalism employers insist that applicants have at least one internship on their resumes; often, an internship is the deciding factor in who gets the job. Countless NYU students have landed jobs, right out of school, in the very organizations where they interned.
Internships enable students to gain real-world experience and to make business contacts. Luckily for NYU graduate journalism students, the department’s internship program is a robust one, drawing on the department’s close relationships with reporters, editors and producers at the top media outlets in New York City.
In recent years, students have interned at, among many others:
- Jonathan Starkey (Nation 2008) The Washington Post
- Libby Golden (Nation 2009) Scholastic Magazine
- Koryn Kennedy (Reporting New York 2008) Esquire.com
- Cannon Kinnard (Reporting New York 2009) Men's Health
- Joelle Zarcone (Nation 2009) abcnews.com
- Sarah R. Kaufman, Phillip Molner and Leigh Remizowski (Reporting New York 2009) Benjamin Peim, Flora Fair and Eun Young Chough, (The Nation 2009) The New York Daily News
- Erika Parkins, (Reporting New York 2008) Black Enterprise Magazine, GQ, CNN
- Flora Fair (Nation 2009), Karthyn Carlson and David Giambusso (Nation 2008) stringers at The New York Times
- Liz Giegrich (Reporting New York 2008) The Nation and The New York Daily News
- Katie Kane (Nation 2009) US Weekly, CNN and KRTV -Great Falls, Montana (CBS Affiliate)
- Molly Stark Dean (Nation 2008) ABC Nightline
- Ryan McLendon (Nation 2009) CNN and Village Voice
- Matthew Schwarzfeld (Reporting New York 2008) politico.com and City Limits.
- Brittany Stahl (Nation 2009) MSNBC
- Sooyeon Kim (Reporting New York 2008) The United Nations
