Park Center for Independent Media
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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."
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....
While interning remotely, Lauren Leone '22 (Journalism and Politics) produced news content about the Black Lives Matter movement and the local impacts of COVID-19 for National Public Radio member station WBFO in Buffalo, New York.
James Baratta '22 (Journalism) has been working with the Institute for Public Accuracy. He distilled a leaked spreadsheet for a complex biodefense research project, sent out press releases through accuracy.org and promoted IPA’s content on Twitter.