Black Entertainment Television (BET)
BET offers internships during spring, fall, and summer in BET-on-Jazz, 106 & Park, Maad Sports, and other music, news, and sports programs.

Intern - Qualifications: College students should be interested in communications
Contact: 202-608-2081
Attn: HR Internship Coordinator, 1 BET Plaza, 1900 W. Place N.E., Washington, DC 20018

C-SPAN
Mission: To provide C-SPAN's audience access to live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view ; To provide elected and appointed officials and others who would influence public policy a direct conduit to the audience without filtering or otherwise distorting their points of view ; To provide the audience, through view call-in programs, direct access to elected officials, other decision-makers and journalists on a frequent and open basis ; To employ production values that accurately convey the business of government rather than detract from it ; To conduct all other aspects of C-SPAN operations consistent with those principals.

Marketing Department - -Affiliate Relations - Maintains and improves carriage of C-SPAN networks among cable affiliates through affiliate promotions and relationships with cable contacts at the corporate level.
-Marketing Communications - Targets key audiences with promotional and marketing efforts to extend the CSPAN message, develops and promotes C-SPAN products and conducts market research.
-Community Relations - Helps secure carriage of C-SPAN networks by establishing and maintaining relationships with key public contacts through the C-SPAN School Bus, account management and C-SPAN in the Classroom.
-Media Relations - Responsible for providing C-SPAN programming and special projects information to national and local news outlets with the purpose of generating press coverage.
Contact: Angela P. Seldon 202 626-4868 / aseldon@c-span.org
400 N. Capitol Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20001

CBS News
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CBS Television is an integrated business comprised of the CBS Television Network of over 200 owned-and-affiliated stations reaching virtually every television home in the United States.

Placement Description: CBS News is offering internships for undergraduate and graduate students interested in careers in Journalism, Broadcasting and Communications. This is an educational program designed for students interested in pursuing a career in those fields. You must currently be attending an accredited college and entering your junior or senior years.

Eligible majors: Journalism, Communications, Public relations, Marketing, Advertising, English, History, International studies, Political science, and Computer science.

Participants should have basic computer skills as well as excellent written and oral communication skills and have at least a GPA of 3.0. Duties include but are not limited to: logging tapes, coordinating scripts, viewer mail, and clerical duties. The internship requires a commitment of two full days per week minimum during the fall and spring and full time during the winter and summer.

Qualifications: Candidates should be knowledgeable about the broadcasting business and should have taken some TV classes. Students also should have held some internships and/or jobs.

Skills Learned: Interns learn how a network news operation works. Students assist producers, editors and correspondents. They got footage, write scripts, and go on shoots.
Internship Supervisor: Katie Curcio
Address: 524 W. 57th St. New York NY 10019
Tel:(212)975-2114
Email:cc5@cbsnews.com

CBS News - News Division
Advertising and Promotions - Intern Responsibilities: Helps to produce advertising and promotions for every news broadcast, which includes, TV, radio, and Print promos, as well as affiliate sales tapes.
Qualifications: Intern should be interested in television and film production and have some technical background. Computer skills helpful.

Broadcast Marketing - Intern Responsibilities: deals with all of the CBS news' broadcast and acts as a liaison between CBS News and all CBS affiliates. Involves various clerical assignments includes certain amount of typing, research and photo copying.
Qualifications: Intern must have a great phone manner and be able to juggle several projects at one time, must be interested in Marketing, Production and have some sales ability.
Hiring Interns for New York, Washington D.C. and Atlanta

48 Hours Investigates - Intern Responsibilities: Weekly broadcast. Provides an in-depth examination of multi topic stories and issues.
Qualifications: Intern must be organized, efficient with their time and aggressive. Computer knowledge is preferable. Strong interpersonal skills.

60 Minutes/60 Minutes II - Intern Description: Newsmagazine with features, focusing on people and events in the new and behind the headlines.
Qualifications: Intern must have strong research skills with knowledge in computers and Lexis-Nexis is a must.

The Early Show/The Saturday Early Show - Intern Description: A morning broadcast providing the best mix of the national and international news as well as local news. Topics include: consumer affairs, health and medicine, file and video reviews.
Qualifications: Intern must be organized and have strong interpersonal skills and basic computer knowledge.

New Media - Intern Description: This department is responsible for CBSNEWS.com website. Students should have an interest in new media design. Photo shop and HTML experience a plus. Responsibilities range from scanning images and text to helping the unit with story conception, design and implementation. MarketWatch is a division of this unit and interns will research financial market trends. This is a great assignment for a student interested in financial journalism.
Qualifications: Student should be interested in financial journalism.

Newspath - Intern Description: This unit is responsible for feeding footage to CBS stations and affiliates. This 24-hour-a-day news service feeds national and international news, weather, sports, medicine and health reports, business and consumer news and broad range of feature stories from around the world.
Qualifications: Intern should have strong written and oral communication skills.

BET Nightly News - Intern Description: BET Nightly News is a newscast of record that addresses topics that are important to people of color. BET Nightly News is produced by CBS News and has an editorial responsibility to Black Entertainment Television. There is a diverse staff that produces a 30 minute weeknight newscast. The mission is stated in the newscast open and that is, it covers "Our world, our culture and our issues." Although the BET Nightly News is targeted to people of color, the objective is to give a real sense of the news of the day and news from a Black perspective to all viewers who tune into the broadcast. The BET Nightly News is looking for interns who have a strong sense of social commitment, interns who have a sense of "community" and want to learn how to produce a niche broadcast while bringing a broad base of journalistic excellence into the product.
Qualifications: Intern should have strong written and oral communication skills. Research and computer skills a must.

Radio News Intern - Intern Responsibilities: tape editing and computers, reporting and finding information.
Qualifications: Intern must be interested in broadcast journalism especially radio.

Face the Nation Intern - Intern Responsibilities: Interview and discuss broadcast with the topic determined by news events of the week, featuring one on one segment in which Bob Schieffer questions the principal guest and a roundtable discussion by a panel with various points of view.
Qualifications: Intern must be organized, efficient and have basic computer skills.

Sunday Morning Intern - Intern Responsibilities: participate in a news broadcast reviewing events of the preceding week celebrating man's accomplishment and achievement and journeying through the world of fine art, music, nature, environment, sport, science, and Americana.
Qualifications: Intern must be organized, strong interpersonal skills and have basic computer skills.

Supreme Court Intern - Intern Responsibilities: assist Supreme Court correspondent, Eric Engberg, and keeping current with the court's changing docket. Entails writing clear, prompt summaries of many briefs submitted to the court. Hear arguments and reporting to depth research on especially interesting cases, which involves interviewing attorneys and experts in Court.
Qualifications: Intern must have good writing ability and the capacity to work independently and must display potential to work well and professionally under pressure.
Note: Hiring Intern for Washington D.C. only

Contact: Eldra Rodriguez Gillman, Internship Program
T: 212-975-2114
F: 212-975-6699
E: internships@cbsnews.com
CBS News, 524 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019

Cloud Nine Therapeutic Riding Center Inc.
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Mission: Cloud Nine Therapeutic Riding Center unites equine activity and personal development. Its primary object is to offer a safe and healthy environment for riders of all athletics so that they may reach their goals in the field of equine. Although Cloud Nine focuses on riders with special needs, anyone can ride there.

Placement Title:
•Grant Writer
•Educational and recreational assistant
•Public Relations Intern.

Placement Description:
•Grant Writer- research applicable grants and write grants for organization.
•Educational and recreational assistant- Assist instructor in facilitating a lesson from start to finish. Work intimately with horse and child.
•Public Relations Intern- Write press releases, publicize special events and fund raisers, and develop promotional material.

Qualifications:
•general desire to make a difference in lives of children,
•strong communication and writing skills (grant writer and PR intern),
•quick to learn, great listening skills;
•attention to detail.

Skills acquired:
•knowledge of the inner workings of a non-profit agency,
•equine and horsemanship skills such as care, training, and lesson giving,
•how to work with special needs population,
•grant writing, press release writing and general publicity.

Hours of Operation: Various
Number of Placements Available: 3
Agency Supervisor: Leah Ritch
Phone: (607)624-3746
Email: leahritch@hotmail.com
5A Rovanten Park, Ballston Lake, NY 12019
Site Address: 2815 Hawleyton Rd, Brackney, PA 18812

Comedy Central
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Mission: Comedy Central’s internship program provides an opportunity to work, learn, and make contacts at a cable television network. Comedy Central, the only all comedy network, is a 24 hour advertiser-supported basic cable comedy service.

Affiliate Relations Intern - Intern Responsibilities: update and maintain local Ad Sales database, maintain and produce local Ad Sales media kits, help produce monthly local Ad Sales mailing, call affiliates to request information, occasional writing for Centralfuge, provide general office support for Affiliate Relations Department.

Media Relations/Press Intern - Internship Responsibilities: assist with day-to-day Public Relations efforts/events, maintain network press digest, maintain press clip files, update press releases, executive and talent bio photo files, maintain press tape library, dub tapes, handle viewer mail and program schedule requests, general office support, coordinate press kits.
Qualifications: must receive college credit, interest in public relations or marketing, courses in related areas, ie. Journalism a plus, prior office experience also a plus, must have flexible schedules, knowledge of Macintosh computers an software required

On-Air Promotions Intern - Intern Responsibilities: provide general office support for On-Air Promotions department, assist with external shoot and screenings assist production assistants, assist with occasional off-lining

Productions Department Intern - Intern Responsibilities: provide basic office support, work as a production assistant on various productions, copy and label various programs for other departments, view various COMEDY CENTRAL programs to list talent, content breakdown by segment, and questionable standards and practices issues, help organize program cart sheets, help maintain prop closet and reel library

Production Intern - The Daily Show - Intern Responsibilities: provide basic office support such as inputting information on the computer, work as a production assistant, pick up equipment and craft service, help with set maintenance, work with various departments, assist during rehearsal and taping of show
Qualifications: must receive college credit, ability to work with diverse kinds of people required, flexible schedules, communications major (or similar major) required

Programming - Development - Intern Responsibilities: provide general office support, handle all correspondence, review treatment, ie. scripts and submissions, dub video cassettes
Qualifications: interest in comedy a must, prior experience or course work in production programming or development a plus, must receive college credit

Contact: Internship Coordinator, Human Resources Department Fax 212-767-4257
1775 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
Compensation: Yes, pro-rated travel stipend

Daily, National Entertainment Business TV Show, "The Biz"
(Internship Beyond Broome County)
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"The Biz" is a daily, LIVE show that covers the entertainment business (film, tv, music, fashion, sports, theater, and more.) It's a fast-paced environment, and some of the duties would include selecting video, creating graphics, researching stories, logging tape, and possibly some field producing.
Requirements: Entertainment news knowledge is preferred. Business/financial news knowledge a plus. Solid computer skills necessary. Ability to handle deadline pressure and work well in a team environment AND independently required.
MINIMUM 30 HOUR PER WEEK COMMITMENT IS REQUIRED.

Agency Supervisor: Robert Melstein, Producer, CNN
Email: robert.melstein@turner.com

EnviroTrac Ltd
Envirotrac is an environmental consulting firm specializing in the assessment and remediation of soil and ground water contamination.

Placement Title: Environmental Technician

Placement Description: The intern will perform routine field monitoring and sampling at sites and will be trained on how to properly prepare samples. The projects include maintenance and monitoring of various remediation systems. Responsibilities will include equipment maintenance and calibration.

Qualifications: Minimum 2 years of education in science related program, OSHA 40 hours of training is a plus but not required.

Skills Learned: The intern will gain hands on experience with sample collection, tabulating data, and preparation of reports.

Number of Placement Available: 1 or 2
Internship Supervisor: Anthony M. Fiorentine
Address: 80B Air Park Drive, Ronkonkoma NY 11779
Tel: (631) 471-1500
Email: tonyf@aol.com

Escada USA

Intern Job Description: The sales department at Escada USA is a thriving department catering to major clients such as Neiman Marcus, Sak's Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, and 30 other specialty stores. Interns for this department will be expected to work in a real setting and apply their knowledge and experience in retail and sales. Interns must show initiative in order to gain more advanced projects. Throughout the 3 months experience interns will be able to participate in market, sales push weeks (Escada week for Sak's, Neiman Marcus, and Bergdorf), and training clinics. The Function of the intern will be to act as an assisting to the department to help complete administrative duties, prepare the showroom for market, assist in market appointments, verify orders after appointments, and many other tasks vital to the success of the wholesale department. In return we hope to teach our interns the importance of responsibility, accuracy and initiative. They will also have the opportunity to apply their computer skills and learn our wholesale order system. We feel that this internship is extremely beneficial to our department and hope that it is as beneficial to the growth and development of our interns.

Qualifications: Candidate should have basic work experience, Experience in a retail setting is ideal. Candidate should have great skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Student should also be pursuing a degree in business or retail management.

Skills Learned: Interns will be given the opportunity to participate in Market Assisting sales executives in presenting the collection. This internship will teach interns about the tools involved in selling through updating selling reports, analyzing sales trends, verifying and confirming orders. Interns will learn about initiatives to increase full price sales at the store level as well as initiatives for the wholesale level.

Internship Supervisor: Kimberly Jetnil
Address: 1412 Broadway New York, NY 10018 Tel: (212)852-5589
Email: kjet@escadausa.com

First Investors Corp

We provide full service financial planning for individuals as well as business's with mutual funds, life insurance, etc.
Internship Title: Registered Representative Assistant
Intern Responsibilities: Intern will help with the responsibility of registered representative duties. Asset allocations for clients, assisting with analysis at equity/bond forms. Working hand in hand with representatives dealing with client records and contacts. Heading prospective methods for licensed representatives with regards to attracting clients, seminars, client workshops, and group presentations.
Qualifications: Background and interest in the financial field, proficient communication skills, and being able to work in a team environment.
Skills Learned: Due to the fact that the intern will work hand in hand with registered senior representatives, he/she will learn communication techniques, organization skills. He/she will also witness representatives dealing with clients from various presentations.
Contact: mitchell Solomon
Address: 333B Route 46 W. Route 207
Fairfield, WS 07004
Phone # (973) 439 6952

Great Eastern MGT.
Placement Title: Accountant Executive Assistant
Qualifications: Good communication skills over the phone.
Skills Learned: Basic sales experience and knowledge about brokerage industry.
Number of Placement available: 2
Internship Supervisor: Thomas White
Address: 775 Old Country Rd, Westbury NY 11590
tel: (516)997-0500
Email: great.eastern@erols.com

Hamilton-Madison House, Inc./ Child Care Centers- Family Social Service Office - winter only
We are a multi-social service, settlement house serving the Lower East Side, Two bridges, Chinatown community.
Placement Title: Office Assistant
Placement Description:The intern will be involved in creating worksheets, phone communication with health and social service providers. Updated the reasons and information database and general office duties including (but not limited to) translation, faxing, filing, copying, etc.
Qualifications Required:Candidates should be bi-lingual, with experience working in an office within a nonprofit agency. However, exceptions will be made for interns majoring in sociology or education.
Skills acquired: Intern will gain experience in social service work and will have hand on experience with office skills.
Supervisor: John Colon, Family Service Director
Contact: Jessica Tynan
Address: 83 Catherine Street, New York, NY 10002
Email: jessica@hmh100.com
Phone # (212)619-2171

Islip Town Board
Students will assist the members of the Islip Town Board as a Legislative Intern. The Islip Town Board is a legislative body empowered by the New York State Constitution to enact legislation, approve the Town budget, levy Town taxes and provide local services. The principal function of the Town Board is to regulate land-use within the Town and to promote and protect the health, safety and general welfare of Islip residents.

Placement title: Legislative Intern

Placement Description: Students will report directly to elected officials serving as their representative to their constituents. Their duties will include, but not be limited to , intake, monitoring and follow up of case work assisting constituents creating and keeping up-to-date calendar, typing of various correspondence, filing and answering telephones. They will also attend functions as a representative, making presentations to community groups and report back to Town Board members. Public speaking will be expected as well.

Qualifications: The ability to interact with the public and manage office tasks productively.

Skills Learned: Research abilities, interaction with residents and community groups, input and format data on actions taken.

Number of Placement Available: 1
Internship Supervisor: Councilwoman Pamela J. Greene
Address: Islip Town Hall, 655 Main St., Islip NY 11751
Phone # (631)224-5559