Internships lead to jobs for 2006 grads

Emily Hulen ('08) tells faculty and fellow students about her summer internship with Vanity Fair magazine.

Sarah Murray and Michael Patterson (both '06) have been hired by the newsrooms in which they served summer internships.

Murray was selected for a prestigious Dow Jones Copy Editing internship at The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C. She was hired full-time as a copy editor at the conclusion of her internship in August.

Patterson was hired full-time when he finished his internship with Bloomberg News.

The two were among 28 sophomore, junior and senior journalism majors who worked for newspapers, television stations, magazines and Web sites over the summer. They are:

Sarah Bloom ('07), CNN; Cara Burton ('07), ABC News; Ashley Cassels ('07), Muze, Inc.; Megann Daw ('08), Chesapeake Home Magazine; Kelly Evans ('07) Reuters' Washington Bureau; Kaylee Hartung ('07), NBC News; Emily Hulen ('08), Vanity Fair and Milton Glaser; Suzanne Humphries ('07), Jill Stewart; Alex Kraus ('07), USAToday.com; Chris Lauderman ('06), The Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fl.; Alex Laymon ('07), CBS; Pat McGlone ('07), The Baltimore Sun; Dargan McMaster ('08), South Carolina Attorney General's Office and Chernoff, Newman, Silver, Gregory; Abri Nelson ('08), Fairfax County Times; Shelley Orman ('07), The Austin Business Journal; Jenny Ratzel ('07), Brides Magazine; Whitney Rothstein ('08), Beber, Silverstein & Partners; Marshall Rule ('07), Clear Channel Radio; Kate Shellnutt ('08), The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk; Bibeka Shrestha ('07), The Seattle Times; Yujia Song ('07), The New York Times, The Shanghai Daily; Britt Staniar ('07), Bloomberg News; Doug Sweeney ('07), The New Haven (Conn.) Citizen; Kiltie Tompkins ('07), SNL Financial; Scott Voelker ('07), Street & Smith, Charlotte, N.C.; Megan Ward ('06), The Charlotte Observer; Stephanie Wiechmann ('07), NPR, Charlotte, N.C.; Kristi Williams ('08) WIBW-TV, Topeka, Kan.

Internships are required for print, broadcast and business-journalism majors. They are optional for mass communications majors. Students must work at least 300 hours to receive three credits and keep a daily journal during the summer. In the fall, they submit the journal and a portfolio of their work; write a 10-page paper about their experience; and make an oral presentation to fellow students and faculty.