IUP-TV Internship

IUP-TV / The Swoop Internship – Summer 2024

Description: Students in the internship will work in various media areas – video, audio, radio, website, and graphics projects – and/or promotions and marketing. This experience involves real world media production and marketing/promotional activities done in a highly collaborative team environment. We produce content in all areas of the communications field including department promotional materials, shows for IUP-TV and WIUP-FM, and projects for the community. Students will be able to leave with multiple productions for their resume, possible references from inside and outside of the department, and realistic work experience. The internship is on-site at the Indiana campus.

Dates: Internships start on Monday, May 13 and must finish by Friday, July 26

Minimum Required Qualifications:
• Strong background in one or more of the following areas:
o Production: video, audio, graphics, images, photography, radio, web design
o Media Marketing / Promotions: strong writing, research, and organizational skills
o Scripting: strong non-fiction writing skills; ability to interview subjects and develop stories
• Major or minor in Communications Media, overall GPA of 3.00 or above

To Apply: Please submit application materials by email to Mark.Piwinsky@iup.edu.
• Cover letter demonstrating your skills and their applicability to our project work – see examples below.
• Resume – Include software and technical skills, promotions work.
• Link to online portfolio.
• Letters from two references, one must be a COMM faculty member.
• Interviews required for viable applicants.

Application Timeline / Deadlines
• First round of application reviews – apply by March 1
• Second round of application reviews – apply by March 22
• After the second round, applications will be accepted only if space is available.

Projects: Work typically includes WIUP-FM & IUP-TV, community and campus video projects, promotional work, website development, social media, audio theater, radio ads, etc. Some examples.
Audio Theater:
• Christmas Carol- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWxstVweUS4
• No Loose Ends – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se1p90vfFz0
The Swoop:
• Coalport Coal Museum – link to video at https://www.coalportmuseum.org/news.html
• Lymes Disease – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDhoZSosOc
• RESS- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42w_9oJb-QI&t=4s
• Underground Railroad Overview – see the video at https://undergroundrailroadblairsvillepa.com/
• Underground Railroad Promotional Video – https://undergroundrailroadblairsvillepa.com/team
• Weavers Perfect Memory – see video at https://www.weaversperfectmemory.com/about
• Wildcat Band – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMu_b_EkBA&t=437s

Questions? More Information? – email Mark.Piwinsky@iup.edu

Accidental Email

Many of you received an accidental email regarding your student data sheet from iforms that you completed as part of COMM 400. I apologize. They error was my fault. We were attempting to archive the assignments. Please disregard the email. We were approving the sample data sheet from COMM 400.

Premiere Internship Opportunity

Stephanie Kridlo, a Campus Recruiter from The Washington Center (TWC), will be on campus next week, on Tuesday 6 February, to speak about internship opportunities in Washington, DC. Our students who attend TWC are given a waiver of IUP tuition and fees, and scholarships are available to defray other costs associated with the program, making this opportunity more affordable for our students. Housing in fully furnished apartments is also provided by TWC.

A student information session on the TWC experience will also be held on 6 February at 4:30 in B34 Stabley, which is the classroom space adjacent to our department’s location in B20 Stabley (our entrance is across from Clark Hall and beside Starbucks). If you would like to learn more about these academically based internships, please visit www.twc.edu.

Please let me know if you have additional questions!

Kindly,
Kelsey E. Thompson, M.A.
Associate Director I Preferred Pronouns: she, her, hers
Career and Professional Development Center
P 724-357-2235
kthomps@iup.edu
www.iup.edu/career

Is It Too Late?

Students are stopping by my office and asking if it is too late to look for an internship.

NO!

Actually, it’s just the beginning of the time when sites begin looking for interns. There is plenty of time to find an internship. How do you start? Visit me in my office and we can discuss search strategies! I’m in 127 Stouffer. My office hours this semester are:

MWF: 10:00 am to 11:45 am.

I can meet other times by appointment.

How to Find An Internship!

Internships with The Washington Center

Stephanie Kridlo, a Campus Recruiter, from The Washington Center (TWC) will be on campus Tuesday 6 February to speak to any interested classes about internship opportunities in Washington, DC.  Our students who attend TWC are given a waiver of IUP tuition and fees, and scholarships are available to defray other costs associated with the program, making this opportunity more affordable for our students.  Housing in fully furnished apartments is also provided by TWC.

A student information session on the TWC experience will also be held on 6 February at 4:30 in B34 Stabley, which is the classroom space adjacent to our department’s location in B20 Stabley (our entrance is across from Clark Hall and beside Starbucks). Communications Media students who are considering an internship with The Washington Center should attend!

The Washington Center is a premiere internship provider and has a history of providing outstanding internships to Communications Media majors from IUP.

Looking for an Internship!

For those of you who hope to complete an internship this summer, Dr. Lenze will be available during the spring semester to help. Stop by his office!
  • January – Dr. Lenze can do a lot to help you find an internship including finding leads and looking over applications.
  • February – There is still time, and he can help you find leads and look over applications!
  • March – Time is running out! But, if you still don’t have an internship, stop in and together we should be able to find something. March is too late to start looking for an internship!
  • April – It is probably too late to look for an internship.
  • April 15th – Deadline. No internship applications will be accepted after April 15th for any reason.

Paid Internships in Journalism

I’m Allison Hunter, the newly hired journalism program manager for the Scripps Howard Fund, and, as you may know, one of our goals is to support students as they pursue practical journalism experiences.

From now until February 1, 2024, we’re putting a call out for students and 2024 graduates who are looking opportunities to exercise their in-depth research, writing and issue reporting skills in smaller newsrooms around the country. The Fund is partnering with the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), which supports more than 425 news organizations, including the 77-member Rural News Network covering rural America. There are four 10-week internships and four 20-week internships.

The nonprofit newsrooms selected for the 20-week internships are:

  • Carolina Public Press
  • ICT
  • The Daily Yonder
  • Wisconsin Watch

The nonprofit newsrooms selected for the 10-week internships are:

  •  KOSU
  •  South Dakota News Watch
  •  Lower Cape TV
  •  Oklahoma Watch

You can learn about the internship descriptions and apply here.

Once selected, an intern can apply to the Fund for a grant to help with housing, relocation, and other expenses to support their ability to accept an internship. Grant applications will open in the spring.

Please circulate this information to your students. *There should also be a flyer attached to this email.

And feel free to contact me if you have any other questions.

 

Thank you!

Allison Hunter

Journalism Program Manager

Scripps Howard Fund

312 Walnut Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

513.977-3806

allison.hunter@scripps.com

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*Watch the 70th Scripps Howard Awards replay & finalists’ videos

Paid Summer Internships!

Finnegan Fellowships –

The James A. Finnegan Foundation has sponsored an annual essay competition for Pennsylvania college students for over six decades.
Winners receive placement in paid summer internships in Executive Branch positions in Harrisburg, for eight (8) to ten (10) weeks, a series of meetings with key public officials plus a cash award.
Alumni/ae include persons elected or appointed to local and state positions in Pennsylvania; a member of the Delaware Supreme Court; college professors, business entrepreneurs, and a myriad of attorneys.
Thanks,
Chris
Christina Koren
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Number: 724-464-9864