Mass Comm Internships

Name of Business:
Rocket Pop Media

Type of Internship:
Video Production

Description of Organization:
Rocket Pop Media is a production company that provides marketing and advertising agency services. The new "comprehensive
digital media" direction that Rocket Pop Media has adopted is easily summed up: If it can be delivered digitally, we do it.
Corporate Videography (Events, Seminars,etc)
Video Conversion (VHS, DVD, Hi8, Beta, etc)
Corporate Training
Sound Design and Scoring
Television and Radio Commercials
Interactive DVDs and CDs
Media Planning
Website Development
Logo Design and Animation
Flash Websites, Applications, and Video
Family Biographies
Event and Corporate Photography
New Media
Graphic Design
Motion Graphics and Animation
Corporate Branding, Collateral, Materials
Podcasts, Video Blogs, Streaming Video
Print Advertising
Short Features, Viral Video
Event Collateral and Signage
Music Videos
Life-size Prints
Video Resumes
Restaurant Menu Design
Legal and Medical Video Depositions
Intern Responsibilities:
• General office and project support for agency
• Writing proposals and creating estimates for clients
• Assisting videographers to set up lights, camera equipment, etc.
• Work with producers to capture and edit video footage
Qualifications applicants should possess:
• Candidate should have good organizational skills.
• Intern should have basic understanding of video equipment and experience with Final Cut Pro.
• Intern should posses good writing skills.
Internship training includes:
• Video production including shooting, capturing and editing video
• Marketing and media planning
• Networking in a business setting with involvement in Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce and Richmond Retail Merchants
Association
This internship is offered year round. Hours are flexible. This is an unpaid internship with potential for long term paid employment.
Applicants should submit a resume via email along with two written references to cara@rocketpopmedia.com.
Contact Information:
Cara Dickens, Vice President and Producer
Rocket Pop Media

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USA TODAY LIVE is now accepting applications from students interested in interning during the Spring 2009 semester. Positions are available at the McLean, VA headquarters as well as our New York City bureau. Interested candidates should send their resume, cover letter and demo reel (if available) to Jamie Romaezi.

Further detail can be found on our Career Builder Job Posting.
Thank you,
Jamie M. Romaezi
Video Coordinator
USA TODAY LIVE
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22108
Phone: 703-854-7611
Fax: 703-854-2131

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About uwemp.com
uwemp is an online media company focused on providing insightful, engaging and
educational content about people’s experiences, accomplishments and success stories.
The name stands for, “You, we, me, empowered.” Our writers interview and speak with
people from all walks of life, listen to their journeys and share it in a well-written,
engaging manner. uwemp is an enabler – the stories and accomplishments on the
website serve as reference points and resources for people to follow their own dreams
and passions. We are building a close-knit and sophisticated writing community across
a Wiki-style platform.
Our Writing Community
uwemp is focused on high quality content and reward writers accordingly. We have a
proprietary writer ranking system that promotes the most active and intriguing
contributors. uwemp actively distributes our writers’ work across the Internet with weekly
newsletters and RSS feeds on a variety of different topics. We encourage all aspiring
writers to join our community, interview interesting people and utilize the uwemp platform
to publish their writing.
What Are the Benefits?
Our writing community is the cornerstone of what we do. uwemp enables writers to
make a name for themselves, build a loyal reader base and share work with people
across the globe. There are no boundaries; you can speak with people from anywhere
across all areas of interest. uwemp holds writing competitions, job shadowing programs
and additional publishing opportunities for top writers.
How Do I Start?
Go to www.uwemp.com and register. You can immediately start writing on the success
stories and accomplishments of individuals or organizations from all walks of life. Please
direct any questions to contact@uwemp.com.

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Society of Professional Journalists - Pulliam/Kilgore Internship
Each summer the Society of Professional Journalists, the nation’s largest and most broad-based journalism-advocacy organization, features two prestigious internships for undergraduate, recently graduated or graduate students. The internships focus on Freedom of Information issues and their connection to journalism, society and governmental institutions. The successful candidates must possess strong writing skills and a solid understanding of the subjects of journalism, the Freedom of Information Act and First Amendment principles.

Positions: One based in Indianapolis (National Headquarters), one based in Washington, D.C.
Stipend: $400 per week for 10 weeks
Term: Negotiable 10 week term commencing in May or June.
Qualifications: Entering (in Fall 2009) senior year or recently graduated from undergraduate studies in journalism; or current graduate student in journalism; or current law student with background in journalism (preferable for Washington, D.C., position).
Application Process: Submit completed application, resume, one-page essay and at most five writing samples.
Application Deadline: Postmarked by Jan. 5, 2009.

More information and an application are available on the SPJ Web site: http://www.spj.org/i-pullkilgore.asp

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Internship Available in Marketing or Mass Communications/PR

Company Name and Location:
Sue Williams and Colleagues
2700 East Grace Street
Richmond, VA 23223

Job Description:
Colleagues is a marketing, public relations and sales promotion consulting business specializing in assisting new and foreign-based companies navigate the channels necessary to develop business in the U.S. marketplace.

Our clients are primarily manufacturers or importers of high-end consumer products in home furnishings and gift markets. We serve as consultants for our clients in all facets of marketing, including product design and development, trade show participation, advertising, public relations, product publicity and sales promotion.

We offer target list building, as well as implementation of subsequent mailings key to marketing and public relations efforts.

We design, develop and deliver press materials to achieve necessary product/company publicity in print, internet and broadcast media.

The intern will experience a broad exposure to consumer product marketing by working directly with Sue Williams and by being involved in all facets of our work, including client meetings, research, data entry, internet marketing, as well as the preparation, distribution and follow-up of press and marketing materials.

As the office is in the Historic District of Church Hill, free parking is readily available.
Hours are flexible to support the academic schedule of the intern.

Applicant Qualifications:
Computer skills – preferably comfortable with Macintosh and select graphics programs.
Familiarity with internet marketing techniques.
A keen interest in learning about and assisting with the creative marketing and public relations services which Colleagues offers its clients.

Starting Date:
January 2009

Pay/Compensation:
Unpaid. Student should inquire about academic credit.
Lunch will be provided.

To Apply:
Send a cover letter and resume to:
Sue Williams
colleaguesinc@earthlink.net
804.644.3946

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