Mass Comm Internships

Name of business: Social Neuroscience Lab, VCU

Type of internship: Web design and execution.

About Us: The VCU Social Neuroscience Lab is run by Kirk Warren Brown, PhD, in the Department of Psychology. We are seeking an intern with solid web design and technical skills who can bring fresh ideas to bear in creating a new laboratory web site.

Primary Duties: Discovery, design, and build. Navigation, graphics, perhaps flash. No online forms, databases, or other interactive applications. The intern will have most of the creative control of this project. Dr. Brown will lay out the basic content and design parameters and supply the text. The intern takes it from there.

Qualifications: Use Macromedia, Adobe Suite, and/or whatever tools you’ve developed some expertise in to create a successful design outcome. Must have own hardware and software. That means you can work from home, the beach, wherever, but be ready to meet briefly with Dr. Brown on a regular (e.g., bi-weekly) or ‘as needed’ basis. Once we’re on the same page re. design, a lot of room to work independently will be offered.

Compensation: Fall term, 2008 internship credit (1-3, depending on your anticipated design and execution time) + 4-figure $ stipend (to be negotiated).
Application: Submit design samples and resume, including reference contacts, to: kwbrown@vcu.edu. Please specify “Web design intern application” in the subject line

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August 27, 2008

VCU-TV/HD Internship Available for Web Guru

If you are proud to be a techno-geek, love the Internet and have a flair for creative promotion, VCU-TV/HD wants you. This unpaid position would require the approval of your area of major and would be subject to their internship guidelines.

VCU-TV/HD creates Hi-Definition documentaries, and wants to get them out there in Cyberspace. Our goal is to drive more people to our website (approaching 2 million hits since Feb 2007), make all videos available to iTunes and get in early on the up and coming HD distribution outlets on the web.

You’ll need knowledge of video compression and a good sense of how and where on the web we can attract different age groups to our diverse programs.

Tell us why you can pull it off:

Dan Brazda
Executive Producer, VCU-TV/HD
djbrazda@vcu.edu

Lisa Figueroa
Senior Producer, VCU-TV/HD
figueroalm@vcu.edu

www.vcutvhd.com

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USA TODAY LIVE
Internship Description

Contact Information:
Andrea Mandell
535 Madison Avenue
29th Floor
New York, NY 10022
agmandell@usatoday.com

Description of intern assignments:
Intern tasks vary from day to day. Opportunities include marketing, writing for TV, research, setting up interviews, logging, archiving and requesting video, making phone calls, copies and sending packages.

The intern will gain a basic understanding of all roles required to produce and deliver television shows based on the newspaper content. Our staff will assign tasks and projects on a daily or weekly basis.

Qualifications:

· Strong writing and research skills
· Effective written and verbal communication
· Good attitude with the desire and ability to learn quickly.

Internship objectives:

· To learn the different elements involved in producing national broadcast products for air.
· To learn and contribute to the ways multi-media convergence can evolve and grow at the Nation’s newspaper.

The trainee will gain a solid understanding of how television is produced and delivered and how different platforms add dimension to the stories being told. The trainee will learn about writing for television and how to visualize and produce a complete broadcast quality product.

Hands-on training with regular feedback helps one to understand the demands of the job within the actual fast-paced, deadline oriented work environment. It will hone decision-making skills and news judgment.

This is an unpaid internship for school credit. You will be asked to provide documentation from your school showing that you will receive school credit for successful completion of this internship. The work schedule is flexible.

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Job Description - Intern Position

Name of Business: American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia (ACEC/VA)

Description of Organization: ACEC/VA is a trade association for consulting engineering firms in private practice. We address the business interests of our members through networking opportunities and various educational programs for our members. We also partner with other organizations to promote engineering as career to students (middle-college level).

Type of Internship: Public Relations, Print Media

Intern Duties may include the following:
* Blog
* Website maintenance
* Online marketing
* Search engine optimization
* Newsletter/Promotional Flyers
* Meeting/Event Support
* Committee Support – Speaker’s Bureau, Essay Competition, Engineering Excellence Awards, Membership Recruitment

Intern Qualifications:
* Proficient in HTML
* Familiar with Web 2.0 & Web Copywriting
* Good written and oral skills
* Good Organizational Skills
* Must be able to work independently
* Familiar with WordPress a plus

Other: Hours (flexible) will be determined within normal business hours of 8:30 am – 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Compensation is $10/hr.

Who to Contact/Where to send it: Send resume, up to 3 examples of work (writing, websites or blogs) and contact information to Nancy L. Israel, Executive Director, 804.673.0868 or info@acecva.org. Website: www.acecva.org. Office is located at 5206 Markel Road, Suite 300, Richmond, VA 23230.

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I will be supervising one person to help with creating stories and writing copy for our web site, newsletter and brochures. Some design and layout work will also be involved using Adobe Creative Suite 3. The job pays $12 per hour, for an average of 20 flexible hours per week over the next two semesters. Would you please pass this along to some of your leading students with a PR concentration? Please ask anyone who is interested to reply to me: gbhalliday@vcu.edu.

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Are you looking for a fun way to get out of the classroom and get valuable writing experience (and samples) all for course credit?

Then spend a semester writing for Richmond.com as an editorial intern.

Richmond.com is currently looking for interns to assist in the editorial department during the fall semester. Interns are expected to work at least 8 hours a week (10 preferred for 150 hours or 3 course credits), during which they will have the opportunity to contribute stories to the website, as well as assist in administrative duties.

Richmond.com offers a fun, laidback work environment, making it the perfect way to dip your toe into the regimented world of 9 to 5 office culture without the emotional trauma of corporate America.

Interested students should send a resume and up to three writing samples to karri.peifer@corp.richmond.com.

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