Internships are a way of life at SOC. The School of Communication offers undergrad and graduate students the opportunity to get course credit for one internship but most students have two or three, thanks to faculty and alumni who share their professional contacts.
Here are just some of the opportunities students have had.
In Their Own Words
- Lindsay Webster had internships at NBC’s Dateline and ABC’s Good Morning America.
- Mary Specht interned at washingtonpost.com, the U.S. State Department, and USA Today.
- Caroline Herter won an internship in corporate communications at National Public Radio.
- April Astor started her own magazine, Catalyst.
- Ed O'Keefe interned at the washingtonpost.com.
- Holly Teresi worked with the Youth Vote Coalition.
- Beth Gosselin worked with the Air Force at the Pentagon.
- Lesli Gant and Cleopatra Andreadis interned at Good Morning America in New York.
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AU's Career Center is a valuable resource for internship information.
Here are some of the companies where SOC students have interned:
- ABC News
- CBS News
- Chicago Tribune
- Christian Science Monitor
- Clear Channel
- CN8 - The Comcast Network
- CNN
- CNN en Español
- Comcast SportsNet
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- DC 101
- Discovery Communications
- Everfine Records
- Fleishman Hillard
- Fox 5 News
- Fox News
- Gannett News Service
- Henninger Productions
- iCaramba U. Magazine
- Ketchum PR Worldwide
- Mhz Networks
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Geographic Channel
- National Geographic Society
- NBC 4
- Omnicom Group (Public Relations Firm)
- Radical Axis (Animation Production)
- USA Today
- VideoTakes, Inc
- The Washington Capitals
- Washingtonian Magazine
