Students in the CU News Corps have created an interactive map of properties lost in Colorado’s Black Forest Fire, along with estimated property values. http://cunewscorps.com/black-forest-fire-map-of-homes-destroyed/.

The project is part of the News Corps’ mission to give students real-life experience in covering major breaking news, while providing professional news outlets with high-quality work they can publish to supplement their own coverage.  Students enroll in a for-credit class to receive the training.  When they are not covering breaking stories they do in-depth, database reporting. Last fall, the News Corps produced analyses of state campaign spending that were picked up by several major news outlets. In the spring of 2013 the students began tracking all gun-related deaths in the state. You can find that work at www.coloradogundeaths.com

Interns and alums alike benefit from our online Career network. If you’re a JMC alum, job hunt using our extensive (and free) online database. Or use the system to update us on your current career and let us know if your company is offering jobs and internships.

Visit our internships and career page and follow the instructions for alumni on the left, using the big gold log-in box to join the network. Note that you’ll need your student ID. If you’ve forgotten it, call 303-492-4100 to retrieve it. (Yep, IDs are available long after you’ve graduated.) Questions? Contact internship/career coordinator Christine Mahoney.

Abigail Faires was the 2013 CU Journalism Outstanding Graduate.

Congratulations to Abigail Faires, JMC’s Outstanding Graduate of Spring 2013. The International Media certificate program is honored that one of its own has been selected for this honor two years in a row. Dana Anderson (featured below) earned this honor in 2012.

Abbey earned a GPA of 3.93 in her print journalism major, earned a certificate in Technology Arts and Media and also earned a certificate in International Media. Abbey is the first person in her immediate family to graduate from college. Abbey’s dream has been to travel the world and tell stories about those in need. Her research paper in the course I taught on Global Crises addressed human trafficking. Abbey worked two jobs during her last year of high school and for six months after graduation. Once she got here, Abbey found she had to continue to work at a full time job to pay for the full class load she took every term.

Money did not stop Abbey from working on her dream of international travel: she spent last summer in Tanzania studying its native people and then took her Fall classes at the U of Sussex in England.

This year’s commencement speaker is CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen, a veteran broadcaster who currently reports for “CBS Evening News” and “CBS Sunday Morning.”  Petersen has spent much of his time recently covering the conflict in Syria. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144751n

Petersen’s CBS career began in 1978. After working for the network’s bureaus in Los Angeles and San Francisco he became an international reporter. He was CBS’ Moscow bureau chief and correspondent from 1988-90, reported from London from 1991-95 and spent several years commuting between the network’s Tokyo and Beijing bureaus.

Follow tweets and other social media about JMC’s ceremony and commencement activities across campus at CU’s Storify page (the link is http://www.colorado.edu/social/2013-spring-commencement

Internship Information

- Help with resumes and cover letters
- Questions about how to navigate the job and internship database
- Information about where to get an internship
- Information about how to get academic credit for an internship
- Information about Reporting 3/Newsgathering 2 internship credit 

Table of Contents

1. Helpful Contact Information
2. Internship Guidelines & Requirements
   1. STEP 1: Are you eligible for internship credit?
      1. Reporting 3 / Newsgathering 2 Internship Credit
   2. STEP 2: Find an Internship
      1. Create a Resume & Cover Letter
      2. Get an internship
      3. Create a profile on the JMC Career Services website
      4. How to upload your resume to the JMC Career Services website
      5. How to create a job search on the JMC Career Services website
   3. STEP 3: Get Academic Credit & Your Grade
      1. Report Your Internship
3. Tips
   1. Resources
   2. Social Media
   3. More Resources
4. FAQ
5. Eligibility: CU JMC Internship Guidelines
6. Reporting 3 / Newsgathering 2 Internship Credit
7. CU Career Services Internship Credit
8. How to Apply via the JMC Career Services Website
9. Get Involved – Journalism Volunteer & Media Opportunities on Campus
10. Cost of your internship

Forms

• Faculty Supervision Form
• Internship Learning Plan Contract 
• Internship Evaluation Form

 1. Helpful Contact Information

Please use this internship packet to find information about:

• Help with resumes and cover letters
• Questions about how to navigate the job and internship database
• Information about where to get an internship
• Information about how to get academic credit for an internship
• Information about Reporting 3/Newsgathering 2 internship credit

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If you need help, contact Christine Mahoney, the CU Boulder Journalism & Mass Communication Career & Internship Coordinator.

Email: Christine.mahoney@colorado.edu

Phone: 303-492-5480

Office hours: By appointment

Location: Room 1B16, Armory, 1511 University Avenue, UCB 478, Boulder, CO 80309

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For technical help and password or student ID recovery on
the JMC Career Services website:

 Call the Career Services Help Desk at 303-492-4100

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2. Internship Guidelines & Requirements

STEP 1: ARE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR INTERNSHIP CREDIT?

Use the CU JMC Internship Guidelines to find out if you are eligible to receive academic credit for an internship. Freshmen and sophomore undergraduates may not be eligible without the appropriate prerequisite courses.

1. If you cannot get academic credit from the journalism program and your employer requires credit, you may be able to earn academic credit from the CU Career Services office.
2. For Reporting 3/Newsgathering 2 internships, students must have internship choices pre-approved by the course professor before interviewing and accepting any positions. Rep3/NG2 is a combination classroom and internship experience that occurs simultaneously!! Please contact Christine if you are enrolled in this course.
3. If you are not eligible, check out these FAQs to see how else you can get involved in media related activities for no academic credit.

STEP 2: FIND AN INTERNSHIP

1. Create a Resume and Cover Letter.
   1. Click here to see tips and examples for creating a resume and cover letter from the CU Career Services office.
   2. Create a draft cover letter and obtain references.
   3. Schedule a resume review with Christine Mahoney. Bring a printed copy of your resume and plan to spend about 30 minutes reviewing.
   4. Upload your resume to our online system (See directions below.)

1. Get an internship.
   1. Once you have determined you are eligible to receive academic credit and have prepared a resume and cover letter, start searching for internships.

i.     FOLLOW “JMCInternships” on Twitter for current job/internship postings.

ii.     LIKE “CUJMCInternships” on Facebook for current job/internship postings.

iii.     SEARCH the JMC Career Services website: http://journalism.colorado.edu/academics/internships-careers/ (See screenshot below.)

iv.     To search the JMC Career Services website, first CREATE your profile.

1. On the top gold navigation bar, click “My Account” –> “My Profile”.
2. Use the “Edit Profile” tab to update your profile information.

v.     Upload your resume. Click “My Account” –> “My Documents” and use the “Add” links to upload the documents you would like.

vi.     Create a job search on the JMC Career Services website.

1. Click “Job Search” –> “Click here to search jobs!”
2. Click “Advanced Search” (blue link).
3. Fill in boxes with specifics, especially “category”.
4. Click “Save Search” OR “Email Me New Jobs”, then name your search and save. An updated list of internships matching your search preferences (a “Job Agent”) will be emailed to you once a day.**We strongly recommend you create a “Job Agent” to easily access current jobs on our system. **

vii.     When you find a job or internship you want to apply for, read the employer’s application instructions carefully. In most cases, you will apply directly to the employer via email. If you need to apply through the JMC Career Services website, use this map for assistance.

viii.     If you do not find an internship on the JMC Career Services website, you should SEARCH the web and apply to individual companies and organizations that you are interested in. Remember, employers must comply with JMC internship requirements. Check with Christine Mahoney to make sure the internship is acceptable.

STEP 3: GET ACADEMIC CREDIT & YOUR GRADE

1. Report your internship for academic credit. Reporting your internship online is MANDATORY to receive credit. *** Be sure to select the appropriate term, i.e., fall/spring/summer, and course code. ***
2. For elective internship credit (JOUR 4931/5931), choose a faculty supervisor – a full-time professor in your sequence. Bring the Faculty Supervision Form to your professor, request their supervision of your internship, discuss supervisory requirements and sign the form with your professor. **Your professor will keep this form. **
3. If you are enrolled in Reporting 3/Newsgathering 2 (JOUR 4502/5502), your professor IS your faculty supervisor. Bring the Faculty Supervision Form to your professor and have him or her sign it and keep it.
4. Log in to the JMC career services website to report your internship.
   1. Log in to your profile. If you don’t yet have a profile, see section 2 above to create one.
   2. On the left-hand menu bar, click “I want to… Report an Internship for Credit.”
   3. Fill in all fields, including faculty supervisor, work supervisor, the term in which you will be completing your internship, and the type of class credit you need (i.e.:  elective 4931/5931 or Reporting 3/Newsgathering 2 class credit 4502/5502).
   4. Fill out the Educational Objectives section.
   5. Fill out the Internship Learning Plan.
   6. Your faculty supervisor, internship employer, and the assistant Dean of the Journalism program will be prompted via email to confirm your internship and register you for credit.
   7. You will receive an email confirmation from Christine Mahoney once you are registered for credit.
5. Evaluations: How is your internship grade determined?

Your faculty supervisor uses the following information to determine your grade:

1. Your compliance with his or her faculty supervision requirements.
2. Your employer’s midterm and final evaluation of your performance. Your internship employer will be prompted via email to fill out a midterm and final evaluation.

You will evaluate or “rate” your own internship at the end of semester using the Internship Evaluation Form. You will be prompted via email to fill this out. Thank you for your participation!

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3. Tips

RESOURCES

1. W2 – Wednesday Workshops
   1. The JMC W2s present various career topics and speakers on Wednesday afternoons from 12-2:00 p.m. in Armory 218. See the calendar of topics and speakers on the JMC website:  http://journalism.colorado.edu/academics/internships-careers/

SOCIAL MEDIA

1. Social Media MUSTS
   1. To stay connected to events, trends, paid internships and more, make sure to follow and LIKE the JMC department on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest, and check out our students’ videos on YouTube. Pinterest boards include Scholarships, Portfolio Options, Washington, D.C. internships, Reporting 3/News Gathering 2 internships, job hunting resources and more.

Twitter:  @JMCInternships

Facebook:  CUJMCInternships

LinkedIn: CU Boulder Journalism & Mass Communication

Pinterest:  JMCInternships

YouTube:  CUJMCInternships

MORE RESOURCES

1. Lending Library
   1. A “lending library” outside of Armory 1B16 offers resources on resume writing, interview tips, career paths and more.
2. Interview Prep
   1. Contact Christine Mahoney for tips on how to prepare for phone interviews and/or in-person interviews. Set up an appointment for a mock interview if you want to practice!
3. Job Hunting Resources
   1. JMC has a number of job hunting resources, broken down by industry. Check our Pinterest boards for radio, television, advertising, news editorial and PR job listings.

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4. FAQ

When can I start interning?

Typically, you need to wait until you’ve taken your major’s prerequisite courses, so you’ll probably start interning junior year.  See the CU JMC guidelines for more information.

However, there are plenty of great volunteer opportunities — on campus and off — that you can do now! (See “Other On-Campus Media Related Opportunities” sheet (pages 19-20) and “Get Involved” sheet (page 21)

Can the Internship/Career Coordinator help me now?

Yes!  You can follow us on Twitter (@JMCInternships) and Facebook (CUJMCInternships) to get the latest on career events, media trends, alumni accomplishments, hot jobs and more.  You can visit Christine Mahoney in Armory 1B16 for advice on careers, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, social media profiles…or just to chat about your media-related goals, dreams and ambitions.  You can also attend school-year Wed. Workshops (W2) announced on Facebook.

Where do CU JMC students intern?

All over the place!  During the 2012-13 academic year, we placed 163 interns, some of whom did more than one internship.  While the majority interned in Colorado, we also had students interning in New York City, Chicago, California, Florida, Las Vegas, Texas and Maryland, just to name a few.  Big name internships include all the TV network affiliates in Denver, CBS in San Diego, High Noon Entertainment, NBC New York, Karsh/Hagan, Crispin Porter Bogusky, Integer Group, Warner Brothers and Warren Miller Entertainment.

What if I don’t know what I want to do in journalism?

That’s OK – now is the perfect time to explore your options.  Consume as much media as you can.  Produce your own.  Keep an open mind about your educational journey and career.

Let us know how we can help!

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5. Eligibility: CU JMC Internship Guidelines

Internship credit is given to students based on # of hours worked:

• 100 hours per semester = 1 credit hour earned
• 200 hours per semester = 2 credit hours earned
• 300 hours per semester = 3 credit hours earned

(Schedule to be negotiated between student and employer)

Employers must meet certain criteria:

• Have on-site intern supervisor/mentor
• Have higher level of experience than student
• Have ability to educate student on “big picture” strategy, such as how student’s work fits into overall project goals, client needs, etc.

Students must take certain prerequisite courses:

Majors: 

• Advertising Majors:  J3453 (Introduction to Creative Concepts) or J3403 (Branding and Positioning)
• Broadcast News Majors:  J3604 (Radio/TV News Writing) and J3644 (Principles of Television Production)
• Broadcast Production Majors:  J3644 (Principles of Television Production)
• News Editorial Majors:  J3001 (Public Affairs Reporting) and J3552 (News Editing)
• Public Relations Majors:  J3001 (Public Affairs Reporting) and J4272 (Principles of Public Relations)
• Media Studies Majors:  See your advisor
• Master’s students:  J5511, J5521, J5514 and/or J5552 (depending on track – See your adviser)

Certain students are required to take internships

• Advertising:  Must take J4931 (undergrads)  MUST earn 3 credit hours, but can be split over semesters
• News Editorial:  Can take Reporting 3–J4502 (undergrads) or Newsgathering 2–J5502 (graduate students) AND can also take elective internship credit for up to 3 additional credits

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6. Reporting 3 / Newsgathering 2 Internship Credit

For an internship to count for Reporting 3 (undergraduate level) or Newsgathering 2 (master’s level), students must do substantive work requiring the application of journalistic skills, judgment, values and ethics. The medium, the beat, and the job title are not the core issue. Journalism is.

Students may do internships in print media, online, video, radio and photography (assuming the required pre-requisites have been met). Internships can also involve a variety of specific tasks and beats, including news reporting, feature writing, sports reporting, blogging, multimedia production, and editing. But in every case, the work must be journalistic in nature. Here, in a nutshell, is what we mean by that:

• Interns must be independent from the sources in the stories they work on
• The work cannot be intended for marketing or public relations
• It must be pursued with an objective method designed to insure accuracy and fairness
• The work product must be original, not simply an aggregation of material that has already appeared elsewhere (as is common with many blogs)
• Truth is the goal, not a preconceived outcome impervious to the facts.

For writers, whether online or in print, this does not mean that the work must consist of reporting and writing for newspapers. But whether it is for a newspaper, a magazine, or a blog, it must involve independent, original, accurate and fair reporting of some sort.

To offer one example, blogging for an online publication could be acceptable if it involved interviewing of appropriate sources, and/or the gathering of information from primary source materials (such as reports, scientific papers, the U.S. Census, etc.). Again, simple aggregation of content that has appeared elsewhere won’t cut it. That said, a journalistic blog post could also include information reported elsewhere. But again, for the work to be considered journalistic it must include some measure of original reporting as added value.

Journalism must underlie the work of student editors, photographers, videographers and radio reporters as well.

We recognize that it will not always be easy to determine whether these guidelines apply to a particular internship. There will certainly be room for interpretation. And we also want to encourage some degree of experimentation. So the decision as to whether a particular internship can count for Reporting 3 or Newsgathering 2 credit will reside with the faculty who teach the course, with input from the JMC internship coordinator.

The journalistic requirements spelled out here apply to all internships that students do as part of the Reporting 3 and Newsgathering 2 classes. Another requirement that applies in all cases is that students must spend a minimum of 16 hours per week working at their internships during the fall or spring semesters and 24 hours a week during the summer, since the summer session course meets for only eight weeks. But we also recognize that internships will vary significantly in their specifics — and we welcome this diversity. Because of that, no size will fit all when it comes to requirements for student productivity. But we can offer some guidance.

For newspaper reporting interns, it’s straightforward: Undergraduate students are expected to have a minimum of 12 published stories over the course of a semester (and by stories we don’t mean briefs). For master’s students the number is 16. For photojournalism interns at newspapers, we have the same expectation — 12 published photographs minimum for undergraduates, and 16 for master’s students.

Beyond reporting and photojournalism at newspapers, it gets more difficult to quantify things. Guidance will be provided at the beginning of the semester, with specifics to be worked out between each student and his or her instructor. Suffice it to say that we want to give our students real-world work experience that they can add to their résumés. These experiences will also help them get started on building a professional network. But résumé- and network-building alone are not sufficient. Students must also come away from their internships with clips or other kinds of work samples that they can incorporate into a professional portfolio. Such a portfolio is, in fact, a required work product of the class.

Lastly, when questions about guidelines, requirements, etc. arise before the start of the semester, students and supervisors should first seek specific guidance from the JMC internship coordinator. In some cases, the coordinator may need to get the instructors assigned to teach the classes involved. Once the semester has begun, the instructors are responsible for answering questions and working with both students and their supervisors to help make the internship experience both productive and grounded in journalism.

Written by JMC News Editorial Faculty Members.

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7. CU Career Services Internship Credit

If you cannot earn JMC Internship Credit, you may be able to earn credit through CU Career Services, to fulfill your employer’s credit requirements.  CU Career Services operates on a STRICT DEADLINE and you will need to call to confirm the deadline and to get registered:

CU Career Services Help Desk:  303-492-4100 or General Information at 303-492-6541.

1. CSVC, the Career Services internship, carries 1 semester hour of credit that is pass/fail and DOES NOT, under any circumstances, count toward your degree requirements. If you pass the class the grade will not affect your GPA. However if you fail the course (by not submitting required coursework) that will impact your GPA.

2. Because CSVC does not count toward your degree requirements, we ask that you try to get credit through your academic department first.  The paperwork required for the class asks you to confirm you investigated your options for receiving credit through your department and have been rejected (a conversation with your academic advisor meets this requirement).

3. You must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours to participate in this course. This is the only requirement to enroll and unfortunately this cannot be waived.

This plan requires you and your supervisor to fill out an online internship learning plan at the beginning of the semester to get enrolled and evaluations at the end of the semester. There is no class time for this course, just the forms.

If you have questions, please contact Lisa Lovett at Career Services:  Lisa.Lovett@colorado.edu

Or Stacy Rosseau at Career Services:   Stacy.Rosseau@colorado.edu

IF YOU ARE RECEIVING CREDIT THROUGH CAREER SERVICES, THIS CREDIT WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR MAJOR AND YOU WILL NOT NEED TO REPORT YOUR INTERNSHIP TO CHRISTINE MAHONEY OR GET FACULTY APPROVAL/SUPERVISION.

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8. How to apply to jobs via the JMC career services website

In most cases, you will apply directly to an employer. If directed to apply through JMC Career Services online, follow the instructions in the graphic below.

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9. Get Involved

Journalism Volunteer Opportunities on Campus & Student Media Organizations

Participation in student organizations helps students make contacts with professionals in the media, learn leadership skills and fully participate in the life of the school.

 CU Sports Magazine

CU Sports Magazine is a student-run, volunteer group that records “live to tape” a magazine format sports television show every week.  Students learn the nuts and bolts of creating a broadcast show through hands-on experience with cameras, editing, writing, and reporting. The taping occurs in the television production studios in ATLAS building, Room 2B31. CU Sports Magazine airs Friday evenings on the Boulder Cable and weekdays on Fox College Sports. To find out more about the Sports Magazine go to CUSportsMag.com or email Assistant Dean Steve Jones at Stephen.Jones@colorado.edu

Radio 1190

Radio 1190 is a cooperative venture between the CU School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the University of Colorado. Radio 1190′s mission is to serve the Boulder/Denver market with an engaging mix of music, news and talk programming. The station is staffed primarily by students and is located in the UMC room 41J.  For up-to-date information about volunteering, go to www.Radio1190.org or call the Radio 1190 office phone at 303-492-5031.

CU Independent

CU Independent is an online daily news source, and is a great opportunity for students interested in newspaper or magazine reporting or editing. The CU Independent is the only student-run news and entertainment website on campus, and is a training ground for “real-world” experience with assignments, deadlines, copy-editing and clips that will help you get internships and jobs. The CUI is also where you can learn and use cutting-edge digital tools. Contact Gil.Asakawa@colorado.edu for more information. Visit its website at cuindependent.com.

CU Science Update

CU Science Update (cuscienceupdate.com) is an Emmy-award winning magazine-format television program that is also a video podcast. The production is year-round and showcases science research and education being conducted at CU and the Boulder community. The production is open to all majors and non-majors who are interested in learning the skills of producing, hosting, field reporting, photography and editing. There are numerous creative opportunities on this show where production schedules are flexible. To find out more, contact Instructor Paul Daugherty at Paul.Daugherty@colorado.edu.  www.cuscienceupdate.com and on Facebook.

ad + cu

CU Advertising Club is 100 members strong.  We are a place for motivated peers to work hard and play hard, while networking with professionals in a way that provides experience you can’t get in a classroom.  We meet once a month to go over industry news, upcoming agency tours, and to offer our members advice and connections.  We take a monthly trip to an ad agency (or two) in the Denver/Boulder area.  We do a “Day in Denver,” where we go to a handful of downtown Denver agencies.  We take an annual, epic, out-of-state trip to an advertising hot spot. In the past, we’ve gone to Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and more.  We accept strategic and creative advertising assignments from third party companies, and work with interested members to make magic happen. Want to learn more? Visit our website at www.adpluscu.com.

Journalism Board

The Journalism Board serves as the student government for the J-School. The J-Board spearheads such commencement activities as choosing a speaker and organizing the ceremony.  It also hosts the Media Mixer and Career Day.  The Media Mixer is an informal event where regional media-related professionals meet with students, and Career Day consists of panel discussions with professionals to help students gain insight into specific fields. Some officers on J-Board serve as representatives to CU’s student government. Contact the front desk at 303-492-5007 for email addresses of current J-Board officers.

MEMO (Multi-Ethnic Media Organization)

All students are encouraged to join MEMO, which promotes diversity in the media. MEMO members put out a newsletter every semester, as well as do television shows covering issues of diversity. Contact: Administrative Assistant Dave Martinez, David.Martinez@Colorado.edu, or Assistant Dean Steve Jones, Stephen.Jones@colorado.edu, for more information.

Society of Professional Journalists

The CU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (www.spj.org) provides students with opportunities for professional development and networking. SPJ at CU organizes workshops and other events in which students make contacts with Colorado reporters and editors. The CU chapter is part of a national organization that is dedicated to professional education, career services and support, and the advocacy of freedom of information. Contact: The SJMC front desk at 303-492-5007 for email addresses of current SPJ chapter officers.

Association for Women in Communications

The CU chapter of the Association for Women in Communications is a student chapter of the national professional organization, which provides support for women in journalism, public relations, advertising and other communications fields. AWC brings in guest speakers to talk about professional issues related to various communications fields and hosts workshops on resume writing and job interviews. Members have the opportunity to network through a “shadow day” program and through networking field trips (typically to New York City). Students are welcome to attend on-campus events without joining AWC, but the shadow day and New York trip are open only to AWC members. There is a $29 annual membership fee to belong, which is paid to the national organization, via the faculty advisor. Contact: Faculty advisor at Sandra.Fish@colorado.edu or visit the website at www.womcom.org.

Other on-campus media-related opportunities

Conference on World Affairs

Help with the marketing for CU’s largest event. Attend student marketing meetings and work alongside the Advertising and Media Liaison to create a buzz about this year’s CWA. Marketing aspects include Facebook, Twitter, promotional videos, press releases and the student brunch. Unpaid – Spring semester strongly preferred

www.facebook.com/cwaboulder

@CWABoulder | #cwa2013

www.colorado.edu/cwa

Contact: Bryan New cwapress@colorado.edu

Colorado Shakespeare Festival

Performances are held on the CU-Boulder campus in the summer, but PR efforts continue all year to make sure seats are filled.  The festival is one of the state’s top cultural events.  Students work in a variety of communications and promotional positions with professional staff.

Contact:  clay.evans@colorado.edu

303.492.1137  http://www.coloradoshakes.org/

CU Sports Information

Students handle a variety of responsibilities for the university’s Division I athletic program; 12-14 are utilized with 2-5 new students hired annually — many have worked freshman through senior years.  Good writing skills required; intense interest and knowledge in sports obviously preferred.  Students who excel gain more experience and are often referred for game day and/or semester internships with Denver’s professional teams as they now almost exclusively hire students with SID office experience.  (First semester is volunteer; if student wishes to continue and he/she has exhibited potential, they are retained and paid.)

Contact:  Dave Plati, 303-492-5626, www.CUBuffs.com  david.plati@colorado.edu

Colorado Engineering Magazine

No science, engineering or math background required.  Students write and edit stories and also handle layout and design for the color publication.

Contact:  http://cem.Colorado.EDU  303-492-8635

CU Environmental Center

The nation’s largest and most accomplished student-led center of its kind has various communications opportunities, some paid.

Contact:  303-492-8308 ecenter@colorado.edu  http://ecenter.colorado.edu/index.php

Department of Computer Science

Exclusive opportunity for JMC students only.  Use your energy and talent to contribute to Project Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/).  Write articles to publicize research, promote events and guest speakers, advertise studies to potential participants.  Prefer juniors not yet eligible to receive credit for internships.  Paid:  $10/hr.

Contact:  Professor Tom Yeh tom.yeh@colorado.edu

Nearby places to gain media experience:

KGNU-FM

An independent, non-commercial community radio station with studios in Boulder and Denver, its goals are “to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience, to reflect the diversity of the local and world community.”  Students volunteering there may find themselves doing newscasts almost immediately. From there, they learn how to assemble news spots and/or learning other production skills.  A great place for students to get in front of a microphone and learn broadcast skills.

Contact:

maeve@kgnu.org, sam@kgnu.org

http://www.kgnu.org/

Boulder Community Media

Boulder Community Media: BCM offers quality programs and coverage of relevant education and community topics. BCM works closely with CU students to produce timely coverage of the Boulder International Film Festival over Presidents Day weekend each February. BCM also can help you produce your own projects for class or otherwise and get them aired on XFinity (Comcast) Channel 22.

Contact:  Alan O’Hashi, exec. director/producer, 303-910-5782, bvet22@yahoo.com

Aurora 8/KACT-TV

Aurora 8/KACT-TV: This is one of the nation’s top municipal stations, and volunteers get hands-on experience. Production interns need no experience and have the opportunity to run studio cameras, floor direct, operate a graphics program and teleprompter, and help on remote productions.  Writing/reporting interns must have taken at least one TV writing course and provide writing samples. Many students do both production and news writing for their Aurora 8 internship.  You can get a jump on your competition by coming in as a volunteer if you are not yet eligible for formal internships.  Internships and volunteer positions are unpaid, but rich in experience.  There is less competition for spots Sept. to May.  Contact:  Senior Producer and Volunteer Supervisor, Mark Isenburg at: misenbur@auroragov.org, or 303-739-6606.  www.auroragov.org/aurora8 (Production volunteers MUST be available Tuesdays 1-3 pm)

The Boulder Stand

The Boulder Stand is an independent, student-run publication featuring news, commentary and analysis related to the sciences, environment and technology.  The Boulder Stand publishes and promotes the work of journalists, researchers and thinkers connected to the Boulder community–a nexus of science, technology and environmental research.  It also serves as a platform for University of Colorado students to publish their work. A student-run digital magazine, The Boulder Stand accepts written features, photography, video and multimedia submissions with an environmental angle, graphics, illustrations and podcasts.

Contact: editor@theboulderstand.org

www.theboulderstand.org

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10. Cost of your internship

The cost of your internship is included in normal tuition rates for full-time students, both in-state and out-of-state. If you are a part-time student, a student taking an internship for credit post-graduation or a student taking an internship in the summer, you will pay per credit through Continuing Education.

If you have additional tuition questions, please call the Bursar’s Office at (303) 492-5381.

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http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/journalism-graduate-lands-dream-gig-nbc

The working concept for this school is both daring and inspiring: it will house journalism, advertising and design, communication, film studies, media studies and a new department of information science.

The news is even better if you read what CU Provost Russ Moore says in the university’s news release: “From this college, we will create working journalists, editors and media professionals, communication scholars, media experts, advertisers and media designers, filmmakers and film theorists, and experts in the emerging field of information architecture and design. The possibilities are truly exciting.”

The idea here is simple: bring together in one college or school all of the disciplines that engage with media and mass communication, and let them feed each other across individual programs. This means that a broadcast student can take courses in documentary filmmaking, media theory or digital design alongside journalism and the liberal arts. It means that advertising students will be able to take advantage of a more complete media design and production curriculum. It means that budding reporters and editors will learn not only the craft of reporting and editing but, through courses in communication or information architecture, develop a deep understanding of the impact of that reporting and editing.

By integrating journalism within these new interdisciplinary frameworks, CU will produce media professionals armed with both extensive knowledge and formidable skills in professional practice. They will enter the changing digital media market with confidence as potential leaders.

The new college or school requires the approval of the Board of Regents, so there is some distance to travel before it is fully formed and functional. But the exciting thing for our program is that the university has met its promise to create a genuinely new and rich environment for teaching journalism, advertising and media practice.

You’ll find more information in a letter to the CU-Boulder community from CU Provost Russ Moore https://academicaffairs.colorado.edu/academicreview/ and in the university’s press release.

Your support in this process has been critical, and remains critical to helping this dynamic new college or school take shape. I look forward to working with you on that effort in the coming year.

Sincerely,

Chris Braider,
Director
CU Journalism & Mass Communication

The Crosman lecture honors Ralph L. Crosman, the first director of CU’s journalism program. Crosman joined the CU faculty in 1921, the year before journalism became a formal academic department. He died in 1948.

You can watch a video of Rowland’s presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELZj3pDZG-s&list=UUv_vNIla40zCHHPSrGoY3FA&index=1

William Bolthouse speaking at the 2013 Spring International Media Certificate Advising Event.

The Spring International Media Certificate Advising event featured Denver medical doctor William Bolthouse speaking on the movie he produced with Academy Award winning Mira Sorvino and Dermot Mulroney called Trade in Innocents. Dr. Bolthouse trained in North Carolina as a family practice doctor. Since 1991, he has worked in suburban Denver,  Frisco Colorado, Kenya, Togo, Macedonia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Guatemala and most recently, in Cambodia.

One of the required courses in the CU International Media Certificate focuses on global crises.

International media certificate students have developed bibliographies and written research papers on unreported angles on food distribution inequities, political corruption, genetically modified seeds,  violence against women, the killing of female fetuses and infants, economic inequality, labor migration, climate change, Islamophobia, energy, nuclear weapons and most recently, the global gun industry.  A  large number of students across multiple departments  write papers on human trafficking consistently. Why does this bother us so much?

Human trafficking is the second  most lucrative criminal activity today. It is likely to  overtake narcotics and the arms trade business soon, and may already have.  The Spring advising event of the certificate featured two personal journeys against human trafficking: International Affairs senior Brent Crane and  our featured speaker Dr William Bolthouse of  Littleton, Colorado. Click here for excerpts of his talk.

Brent Crane spoke about his internship meeting with survivors of sexual trafficking in Mexico.

Brent Crane spoke about his internship with I Empathize, how it enabled him to write a research paper on sex trafficking in Cambodia, and then how he travelled to Mexico to meet victims of the trade. Click here for excerpts from Crane’s talk.

Dr William Bolthouse, the family practice physician from Denver,  spoke about why he reached out to entertainment movies to combat sex trafficking of little girls. Dr Bolthouse did his medical training in North Carolina. Since 1991, he has worked in suburban Denver, Frisco Colorado, Kenya, Togo, Macedonia, Uzbekistan , Romania, Guatemala and most recently, in Cambodia.

On one of his many volunteer visits to Cambodia, Dr Bolthouse, his wife and three young daughters heard about the high US demand for young Cambodian girls: his film and his talk addressed how this changed their lives.