RECOMMENDED INTERN HOSTS 2010
Steps in setting up your internship:
1. First, remember that internship course credit is reserved for senior Mass Communications majors only. If you wish to do an internship before you’re a senior, you’ll receive no credit, but it’s still a great thing to do for the experience.
2. Consult the flyers that promote newer internships (found on the Internship bulletin board) along with this list of internships that previous interns have recommended to research and narrow down your prospects. Then go to see your Mass Comm. Dept. advisor to get his/her advice about whether the prospects you’ve selected are right for you. Get your advisor’s help in ranking your prospects. Don’t skip this step! You’ll be surprised how helpful your advisor will be to narrow down your short list to the best for you.
3. Read internship FAQs found on our website,
4. Contact your number one and two choices. Do NOT send out a dozen query letters or call several internship venues. If there’s one kind of prospective intern they all hate, it’s the internship “shopper.” They don’t want to waste their time interviewing and considering hiring people who are not serious.
5. Follow up with your first choice until you get an answer. If their answer is “yes,” fill out the intern information form and see Dr. D. for the Banner work necessary for you to enroll in MC 481. Dr. D. will then write your internship supervisor his usual letter of confirmation. If the answer from your first choice is “no,” contact your second choice, and so on. There are also two forms to fill out before you’ll be cleared to enroll.
6. Tip: START EARLY! The best internships – especially the few paid ones -- are taken quickly. Start working on a Spring internship as early as September, a Summer internship in January, and a Fall internship in late Spring/early Summer. Hint: There’s more competition for Summer internships than Fall or Spring, and Fall internships have the least applicant competition. A few popular internship venues, like the one at Technisonic Studios for TV production, choose their interns as much as nine months ahead!
Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Corporate Communications
AAA Midwest Traveler & Southern Traveler Magazines Access Marketing St. Louis Belleville, IL; marketing services ouraaa.com/news/travel/index.html www.getmoreaccess.com
A.G. Edwards, Inc. Alton Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau St. Louis; media production Alton, IL.; P.R., Marketing agedwards.com http://www.visitalton.com/index.cfm
Ameren/UE Anderson Hospital Dept. of Community Relations St. Louis; P.R., Marketing And Development; Maryville, IL; P.R. ameren.com/JOBS/ andersonhospital.org
Anheuser-Busch (Belleville) Memorial Hospital St. Louis; P.R., marketing Belleville, IL; P.R. buschjobs.com/scripts/JobSearch.aspx memhosp.com/
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Collinsville Chamber of Commerce Collinsville, IL; P.R., marketing P.R., marketing communications cahokiamounds.com/cahokia.html discovercollinsville.com
Cliffedge Marketing Creative Producers Group St. Louis; marketing, production St. Louis; Advertising, P.R., Event Planning, Interactive, Video production, Web Design http://cliffedgemarketing.com/home.html getcreative.com
Downtown St. Louis Partnership E. Smith & Associates Ad, marketing Granite City; promotional marketing downtownstl.org esaagency.com
Fleishman Hillard Inc. Foppe Designs St. Louis; P.R. Highland, IL; Advertising, many Multimedia services fleishman.com Good to know Adobe Creative Suite Software. foppedesigns.com
Gateway International Raceway Gateway Grizzlies Granite City, IL; marketing, P.R. Sauget, IL; P.R./Marketing for minor league baseball team gatewayraceway.com http://www.gatewaygrizzlies.com
G.M. Anderson & Associates The Hughes Group Springfield, IL; Ad, marketing St. Louis; Advertising, P.R., Marketing gmaaa.net hughes-stl.com/default.asp
Image Excellence The Inland Group Belleville, IL; web and graphic design Edwardsville, IL; design http://image-excellence.net/ inlandsolutions.com/spring_green.html
Kupper Parker Communications Laclede’s Landing Merchants Association St. Louis; marketing communications St. Louis; P.R., marketing kupperparker.com lacledeslanding.org
The Magic House/St. Louis Children’s Museum Maring Weissman St. Louis; P.R., marketing St. Louis, Advertising magichouse.org maringweissman.com
Missouri Baptist Medical Center Nestle Purina Co. St. Louis; P.R. St. Louis; P.R. missouribaptistmedicalcenter.org purina.com/company
Opera Theatre of St. Louis Orca Partnership P.R., marketing St. Louis; Ad opera-stl.org/Default.aspx orcastl.com/
Porter Novelli Regional Arts Commission (RAC) of St. Louis Chicago; P.R. P.R., Marketing porternovelli.com art-stl.com
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Rodgers Townsend Advertising P.R., Marketing St. Louis; Advertising agency rodgerstownsend.com/main.cfm repstl.org St. Anthony’s Health Center Public Information (P.R.) and Marketing Alton; Community Relations www.swic.edu www.sahc.org
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital St. Mary’s Health Center Belleville, Il P.R., Marketing St. Louis; P.R., Marketing steliz.org stmarys-stlouis.com/internet/home/stmaryhc.nsf
St. Louis Blues St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission P.R., Marketing P.R., Marketing Stlouisblues.nhl.com explorestlouis.com
St. Louis Science Center The Spark Agency (formerly Busch Creative Services) P.R., Marketing St. Louis; Event and mobile marketing event/tour services slsc.org thesparkagency.com
Think Tank Public Relations & Marketing Troy-Maryville Chamber of Commerce P.R., Marketing (Edwardsville) Troy, IL; P.R., Marketing http://www.thinktankprm.com/ troycoc.com/
United Way of St. Louis V.A. Employee Education System Marketing Dept. P.R., Marketing St. Louis; general media writing, production stl.unitedway.org e-mail [email protected]
Rivet (formerly Zipatoni) St. Louis; Advertising, Marketing http://www.rivetglobal.com/
Also see Adclubstlouis.org for a long list of St. Louis ad agencies we haven’t worked with recently. The only one on that list that we know doesn’t take interns is Kochan and Company.
Television Stations & Networks, Cable TV and others
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Charter Communications Hollywood, CA; Production and much more! St. Louis; Production emmys.tv/foundation/internships.php chartercom.com
City of Florissant, City Cable 10 City Cable 10 City cable production St. Louis; City cable production florissantmo.com/TV/index.shtml http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/citytv10
Double Helix Community Media Center Fox Sports Midwest St. Louis; Radio & TV production St. Louis; Sports production dhtv.org/about.htm foxcareers.com
HEC-TV KDHX-TV Community Media St. Louis; Educational TV Production St. Louis; TV, Radio, Web production hectv.org kdhxtv.org
KETC-TV-9 KMOV-TV-4 St. Louis; Public TV Station Production St. Louis; all departments ketc.org kmov.com
KPLR-TV-11 KSDK-TV-5 St. Louis; all departments St. Louis; all departments except News http://www.kplr11.com/ ksdk.com (M.C. Dept does not allow students to intern in news because of the way interns in news have been treated by the current news intern supervisor. OK elsewhere at the station.)
KTVI-FOX 2 Metro Networks/Westwood One St. Louis; all departments St. Louis; Syndicated news, traffic, weather reporting for fox2ktvi.com affiliate stations metronetworks.com
WICS-TV-20 Springfield, IL; all departments, especially News wics.com
TV, Film Production Companies, Post Houses, Corporate Video
A. G. Edwards Arbor Group St. Louis investment firm Hq.; Corporate video St. Louis; Film & Video production agedwards.com arborgroup.com
The Abacus Group Avatar Studios Maryville, IL; Film & Video production St. Louis; Film & Video production agstl.com avatar-studios.com
Barlow Productions Coolfire Media St. Louis; Video production, photography, multimedia St. Louis; Video production and more barlowpro.com www.coolfiremedia.com
Charter Communications DHD Entertainment Maryville, IL; Cable TV production St. Louis; TV production chartercom.com http://www.dhdentertainment.com/
Jumby Bay Studios Smith Lee Productions St. Louis; Film, & Video production St. Louis; Audio & Video production & post production jumbybaystudios.com smithlee.com
Studio Worx Switzerfilm St. Louis; Video Production Edwardsville; High-end wedding videos and other studioworxinc.com productions for clients http://www.switzerfilm.com/
Technisonic Studios St. Louis; Film and Video Production, multimedia, etc. technisonic.com
Multimedia and Graphics Companies
Barlow Productions Chemistry Multimedia St. Louis; Multimedia, Video production, photography St. Louis; Advertising, Marketing, P.R., Branding barlowpro.com http://www.chemistrymultimedia.com/
Foppe Designs Swank Audio Visual Highland, IL; Advertising, many Multimedia services St. Louis; Many Multimedia services Good to know Adobe Creative Suite Software. swankav.com foppedesigns.com
Radio Stations and Audio Production
CBS Radio of St. Louis Disney Radio St. Louis KEZK, Y98, KSD, FANS 590 Children’s radio kezk.com radio.disney.go.com/music/yourstation/st.louis/index.html
Emmis Communications St. Louis KFNS-590 “The Fan” KFTK-FM, KIHT-FM, KPNT-FM & KSHE-FM AM Sports Radio All departments. emmis.com/links/index.aspx kfns.com
KMOX-1120 KTRS-550 St. Louis; News-talk radio Talk, news, sports kmox.com ktrs.com
Clear Channel Radio Stations Smith Lee Productions KSLZ-107.7 FM; KATZ-100.3 FM; KMJM-104.9; St. Louis; Audio production & post production KSD-93.7; KLOU-103.3; KATZ-1600 AM smithlee.com clearchannel.com
WBGZ-1570 WCRC-FM Alton, IL; Talk, News, Sports, Local programming Effingham, IL; Cromwell Radio Group wbgzradio.com C&W Format; wcrc957.com
WEAI/WLDS WYMG Jacksonville, IL; Talk, News, Sports, Local programming Springfield, Il; Music weai.com wymg.com
WMAY-970, WNNS-99, and WQLZ-92.7 WXRT-93 Springfield, IL; Classic hits, news/talk, and rock Chicago; rock wmay.com; wnns.com; wqlz.com 93xrt.com
Regarding Bonneville-owned St. Louis stations WIL, WRTH, WSSM, AND WVRV: Do not contact this station group about an internship. Bonneville’s lawyers require SIUE to sign a legal document regarding your internship that SIUE’s lawyers will not allow us to sign. Therefore, sadly, we cannot authorize you to intern at any Bonneville-owned station.
Newspaper Reporting, Photojournalism and Magazine Writing
AAA Midwest Traveler Magazine Alton Telegraph St. Louis General assignment reporting, copy desk ouraaa.com/traveler thetelegraph.com
Belleville News-Democrat (in either the Belleville or Chicago Tribune Collinsville offices) General assignment reporting, layout, photojournalism General assignment reporting bnd.com chicagotribune.com
Detroit Free Press Edwardsville Intelligencer General assignment reporting General assignment reporting, ad layout/design freep.com edwpub.com
Ladies Home Journal River Front Times New York, NY.; women’s interest magazine St. Louis; alternative news weekly lhj.com rftstl.com/
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (paid internships available!) All departments stltoday.com
The St. Louis Attractions Association lists a number of internships on their website. Most, but not all, are in P.R. and Marketing. See stlattractions.org for more information.
Also note that this list is constantly changing, as students find their own good intern opportunities, report their good experiences back to us and annually we add new internship venues to the list. If the website you’re looking for has changed, Google it and find the new one. This will also serve to sharpen your job-hunting skills.