2025 Interns
Sam Armstrong I was the summer communications intern in the Communications and Development office at Overbrook School for the Blind. My focus was planning and creating accessible content for their social media pages to increase outreach. I also photographed large events, contributed to their upcoming annual report, helped with donor relations, and more. You can […]
PCIM Sponsors 10 Students in Summer Internships
This summer, PCIM is excited to sponsor 10 Ithaca College students in their internships at independent news outlets and nonprofits across the country. Our interns will work at a variety of institutions, both new and familiar to PCIM. Students will use these opportunities to develop skills and push for new ways to apply them in […]
PCIM Interns Hone Journalistic Skills at Independent Outlets and Nonprofits
This summer, we were pleased to sponsor 10 Ithaca College students in their internships at independent news outlets and nonprofits across the country. The students, from various areas of study, found opportunities to develop skills and push for new ways to apply them in rigorous hands-on work. Jess Williams (’25) spent the summer interning […]
2022 PCIM Interns Work at a Variety of Independent Institutions
Desiree Holz (Journalism, ’23) is the current marketing and public relations intern at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Desiree’s main responsibility this summer has been to create and manage the museum’s TikTok. She has been helping to write press releases and work on research and other administrative tasks for the museum. […]
2021 PCIM Interns Celebrate Summer Accomplishments
Desiree Holz (’23) is a Journalism major who spent the summer interning with The Ithaca Voice. Over the course of her internship, Desiree gained more than 10 bylines covering the labor shortage, new city planning developments, and other stories affecting the Ithaca area. “My time at the Ithaca Voice allowed me to blossom as a […]
PCIM Sponsors Summer Internships For Eight Students in 2021
Each year, the Park Center for Independent Media sponsors students to work with independent media outlets and immerse themselves in non-corporate media production and distribution systems. Through the center’s internship program, students get the opportunity to receive valuable hands-on experience at some of the leading independent media organizations and advocacy nonprofits in the nation. This […]
“Home is Here” Documentary by PCIM Intern Julien Sobel
“Home is Here” explores the life of Dolores, an undocumented farmworker in Upstate New York, as she talks about her experiences, her struggles, and the work she is doing to help others in situations similar to hers. The 26-minute documentary broadcasted Wednesday, October 7 at 7 p.m. WXXI-WORLD in Rochester, NY. The film was made by Ithaca College […]
Internship: Madison Fernandez at The Ithaca Voice
Madison Fernandez ’21 (Journalism) has been working with The Ithaca Voice, where she’s been pitching and writing lots of stories—around 40 her first month. Her favorites covered the new Odyssey Bookstore, where she conducted her first socially-distanced in-person interview, and the creation of a digital archive for Ithaca House, a historical local poetry press. Madison […]
Internship: Ella Krings at Veverka Bros. Productions
Ella Krings ’21 (Documentary Studies) has been interning for Veverka Bros. Productions this summer. She is currently editing a 30-minute episode about specialty fireworks in Japan that will be featured on the upcoming season of “Passfire: The Series.”
Internship: Taylor Millican at The Frontier
Taylor Millican ’22 (Cinema and Photography) interned at The Frontier in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. For a documentary relating Tulsa’s race massacre to the U.S. now, she has been obtaining interviews and filming the protests against Trump’s June visit to Tulsa. Much of her summer involved filming interviews, editing footage, and learning an extreme […]