{"id":2740,"date":"2017-02-20T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2017-02-20T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:37:06","slug":"sydney-an-inside-look-at-an-internship-with-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2017\/02\/20\/sydney-an-inside-look-at-an-internship-with-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney: An Inside Look at an Internship with NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the summer of 2016, I had the amazing opportunity to intern with NBC New York. I was based out of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in the heart of NYC. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was a digital media intern, meaning I worked on the company\u2019s website by writing news articles and creating photo galleries. I also worked on their social media accounts, specifically Instagram and Snapchat.<\/p>\n

I was extremely nervous the first day of my internship. NBC is a very well-known, successful organization, and NBC New York is basically the birthplace of television. How could you not feel intimidated? However, I was fortunate enough to have a very friendly boss, and to be a part of a great team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon my arrival, the company had just started up their Snapchat account. This became one of the main projects for my internship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to attend super cool events around NYC for Snapchat content. For example, The Stonewall Inn National Monument Ceremony, The Liberty State Park Opening near the 9\/11 Memorial, Black Lives Matter protests at City Hall, as well as the Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition (who knew that was a thing?).<\/p>\n

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My favorite days were when I attended TODAY Show concerts for our Snapchat and Instagram accounts. The concerts were right outside and I used my NBC ID to get good spots. I was probably way to excited for Nick Jonas and Shawn Mendes to perform. Some of my other favorites were Jennifer Lopez with Linn-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton!!), as well as Steven Tyler and Megan Trainor (I got a selfie with her!)
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\u00a0<\/span>When I walked off the elevator to get to my office, I passed Studio 6B- home of the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.<\/em> Occasionally I heard The<\/em> Tonight Show<\/em> filming and would freak out over hearing Jimmy Fallon\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n

Stefan Holt, son of Lester Holt, was one of the new broadcast journalists who I worked on several projects with. He is extremely nice and I even had the opportunity to help out at a meet and greet for him and two other news anchors in New Jersey! I rode in the car with them from NYC as they talked about adult things such as past career positions and buying houses, as well as singing songs I had never heard of.<\/p>\n

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Thursdays were great because I got to play with dogs!! NBC New York has a local TV show called New York Live<\/em>, and every Thursday<\/span><\/span> they bring in dogs from local animal shelters who are up for adoption. I definitely spent too much time playing with them when I should\u2019ve been working.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Overall, my summer internship was an amazing experience and taught me how to survive in the professional world. Internships in general help you gain a ton of insight into a certain industry. Although I am a PR major, my internship was very journalism-based. It helped me realize that journalism and the news, especially local news, is not the industry I would like to pursue. It\u2019s okay to not like certain parts of an internship because it only redirects you towards the right path for your future. I know that choosing public relations as my major opposed to journalism was the right choice thanks to my summer internship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the summer of 2016, I had the amazing opportunity to intern with NBC New York. I was based out of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in the heart of NYC. \u00a0\u00a0 I was a digital media intern, meaning I worked on the company\u2019s website by writing news articles and creating photo galleries. I also worked on … Continue reading Sydney: An Inside Look at an Internship with NBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44461],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}