FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES “WINTERNSHIP” PROGRAM
BOSTON, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK CITY AREA, PHILADELPHIA AND YAKIMA, WA
January 4 – 8, 2016
COSPONSORED BY FMS AND THE TUFTS CAREER CENTER
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NOTE: SOME WINTERNSHIPS REQUIRE CREDIT.
THESE ARE NOTED IN BLUE. IF YOU ARE SELECTED
FOR ONE OF THESE WINTERNSHIPS YOU WILL NEED TO ADD A HALF CREDIT INDEPENDENT STUDY
WITH PROFESSOR DOBROW IN THE SPRING 2015 SEMESTER
BOSTON
BBK Worldwide – Boston/Needham
Because this site requires that interns be receiving academic credit, to do this Winternship
a student must commit to taking a half-credit independent study with FMS Co-Director
Julie Dobrow in the Spring 2016 semester.
BBK Worldwide provides patient recruitment – innovative marketing communications
strategies, programs, and technologies designed to streamline the enrollment of clinical
trials in order to accelerate time to market for new and improved medicines and
treatments. Using a wide range of advertising and other tactics, BBK advocates for
patients, increasing their access to and understanding of healthcare issues that affect
their daily lives and related clinical trials that may offer them treatment options. With
more than three decades of experience across a wide variety of therapies and medicines,
BBKWorldwide is the global leader in patient recruitment for the clinical trial industry.
BBK’s latest innovation is the introduction of adaptive recruitment – a new specialty in
clinical trial marketing proven to protect global enrollment integrity, specifically within a
changing or threatened landscape.
Students will work with BBK staff members to plan and implement their Winternship in
the marketing communications focus area of their choice: e.g., campaign strategy,
planning, and management; creative; media; or social media.
The Boston Globe – Boston
The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in New England. During
the January internship, the Globe intern will work with a staff writer for The Boston Globe
Magazine.
David Sutherland Productions – Boston/Waltham
A veteran PBS documentary filmmaker, David Sutherland has been one of the pioneers of
cinema verite, and a cornerstone of the documentary field for more than 30 years. His
credits include the PBS/Frontline highly-acclaimed films The Farmer’s Wife, Kind Hearted
Woman and Country Boys, which collectively had more than 36 million viewers. Other
credits include Out of Sight, Halftime, and George Washington. More information on
Sutherland’s work can be found at www.davidsutherland.com.
DigitasLBi – Boston – 3 Winterns
Because this site requires that interns be receiving academic credit, to do this Winternship
a student must commit to taking a half-credit independent study with FMS Co-Director
Julie Dobrow in the Spring 2016 semester.
DigitasLBi is a global marketing and technology agency that transforms businesses for the
digital age. We help companies of all shapes and sizes decide “What’s Next”… and then
we take them there. Across 40 offices in 25 countries around the world we have more
than 6,000 digital experts working to enrich people’s lives via our unique blend of
strategy, creativity, media, and technology.
Our skills and passions span insight, brand building, content creation and distribution, as
well as the ability to help brands embrace the creative and technological change that is
revolutionizing their businesses. We act as strategic partner to some of the world’s most
exciting companies across a wide range of industries including FMCG, financial services,
publishing, retail, telecoms and travel. There are many things that make DigitasLBi unique
but if we had to choose one it would be our ability to connect data with storytelling to
help make brands special, shareable and ultimately more valuable wherever, whenever
and however people choose to engage with them.
Filmmakers Collaborative – Waltham, MA
Filmmakers Collaborative (FC) is a national nonprofit media organization that encourages
and supports the making of great films and media projects by people of all ages and
experience levels. Based in Waltham, MA (accessible by commuter rail from Porter Square
station in Cambridge), FC provides grants management, mentoring and workshops to a
diverse and national community that includes award-winning PBS documentarians, first
time producers and directors, and young people just discovering the power and potential
of visual media. In 2013 FC launched the Boston International Kids Film Festival, in
partnership with Tufts University's Film & Media Studies program. FC is seeking a wintern
who can help us expand our network of festival sponsors, partners, advertisers and
attendees; find schools and organizations to host film screenings and workshops during
the school year; organize and edit footage and photos gathered from the 2015 BIKFF; and
provide administrative support to FC. As far as possible, we will tailor the job to the
students' expertise and interests.
Greenough Brand Storytellers – Boston
Greenough, an award-winning public relations agency located in Watertown, Mass., builds
brands through the power of storytelling. Greenough works with organizations across a
wide variety of industries, including technology, life sciences, professional services and
entertainment, to drive awareness, generate conversations and deliver qualified leads.
Nationally recognized for its public relations, social media and marketing programs,
Greenough has helped companies in Massachusetts and beyond since 1999. For more
information about Greenough, visit http://www.greenough.biz or read our blog at
http://www.greenough.biz/blog.
Havas Media – Boston
Havas Media is one of the largest global advertising and communications groups in the
world. Havas delivers data-focused marketing solutions across all interactive channels:
digital, direct response, and relationship based media. Since 1997, and in 40 countries in
52 cities across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, Havas
has been the trusted partner of more than 400 clients, including the market leaders in
many industries, such as Air France, Expedia, Fidelity, France Telecom, ING Direct, Nike,
Peugeot/Citroën, Repsol, Reckitt Benckiser, and Sears, among others.
WBUR – Boston
WBUR, owned by Boston University, is the largest National Public Radio station in Boston.
In addition to local news, it produces several nationally-distributed programs, including
Car Talk, Here and Now, Only a Game, and On Point. The intern is likely to work with
WBUR's digital team as they deliver station content to the station’s online audience. If the
wintern has a specific interest, WBUR will tailor the winternship to his/her needs.
WGBH Radio - Boston
The selected wintern will work with Craig LeMoult. His features have run nationally on
NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, as well as on
Marketplace. LeMoult has won a number of national and regional awards for his
reporting, including the national Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award
feature reporting in 2011, first place awards in 2012 and 2009 from the national Public
Radio News Directors Inc. and second place in 2007 from the national Society of
Environmental Journalists. LeMoult is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and Tufts University.
LOS ANGELES
Bona Fide Productions – Los Angeles
Bona Fide Productions is a Los Angeles-based company that has produced films such
as Little Miss Sunshine, Little Children, Election, Cold Mountain, King of The Hill, and Ruby
Sparks. The wintern's responsibilities include reading scripts and writing coverage,
watching films and actor/director reels, doing research projects, answering phones, and
light administrative work. The wintern should have an interest in independent film, be
able to multitask, and be Mac-proficient.
Spotlight Communications Group – Los Angeles
Spotlight Communications Group is a full service public relations and marketing company,
specializing in the health & beauty industry. In this role, the wintern will gain hands-on
experience by shadowing company president Candis Melamed and working work closely
with her team. SCG is dedicated to positioning individuals, companies and products as
leaders in their field, through media exposure, branding, social media and special events.
The team at SCG values client relationships and works tirelessly to get results by building a
unique strategy, maintaining strong media relationships, relentless persistence and
unparalleled service.
United Talent Agency (UTA) – Los Angeles
Because this site requires that interns be receiving academic credit, to do this Winternship
a student must commit to taking a half-credit independent study with FMS Co-Director
Julie Dobrow in the Spring 2016 semester.
United Talent Agency (UTA) is a leading talent and literary agency with corporate
headquarters in Beverly Hills, California. UTA is one of the largest talent agencies in the
world, with more than 135 agents representing actors, writers, directors, producers,
recording artists, below the line talent, IP rights holders, emerging technology companies
and corporate brands in a variety of practice areas including film, television, music, digital
media, intellectual property, computer and video games, commercials, voiceovers,
endorsements, branding & licensing, corporate consulting and entertainment marketing.
Our Internship program seeks to offer undergraduates and graduate students the
opportunity to work at one of the world’s leading talent and literary agencies. Interns are
exposed to a wide spectrum of representation practices and are given hands-on
experience in an exciting and demanding area of the entertainment business. Interns will
learn the basic fundamentals of the agency business and gain insight into the daily
operations of an agent’s office. The exposure to the various disciplines of talent
representation will provide candidates a view to the inner workings of an agency from the
mailroom to the highest levels of representation.
NEW YORK CITY AREA
Bustle.com – New York City – 2 Winterns
Bustle is a news, entertainment, lifestyle, and fashion site driven by a diverse and
energetic collection of contributors. We're looking to redefine what "women's interest"
looks like. The intern will work directly with editors to conceive, pitch, write, revise,
produce, and ultimately contribute two to three posts to her assigned vertical each day.
This is a very writing-intensive internship, and interns should have a proven writing
background, as well as a vested interest in the subject matter. The intern will come away
from the internship with an idea of how to work with an editor at a web publishing
company, as well as a small portfolio of published clips.
Cosmopolitan – New York City
Because this site requires that interns be receiving academic credit, to do this Winternship
a student must commit to taking a half-credit independent study with FMS Co-Director
Julie Dobrow in the Spring 2016 semester.
Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the U.S., a bible for fun,
fearless females that reaches more than 17 million readers a month. Cosmopolitan delivers
the latest news on men and love, work and money, fashion and beauty, health, self-
improvement and entertainment. Cosmopolitan.com reaches over 20 million unique users
a month, in addition to boasting 5 million+ Facebook fans and nearly one million Twitter
followers. The Cosmo channel on the Snapchat Discover is the most visited site on the
platform generating more than 3 million video streams per day. In addition to the U.S.
flagship, Cosmopolitan publishes 61 print magazine editions around the world.
A sales/marketing internship will provide exposure to the dynamic and evolving
publishing business. With new distribution platforms emerging every day, publishers are
creating content in more ways than ever before, and as one of the largest brands at
Hearst, our team is deeply engaged with the largest marketers in the country to build
revenue generating partnerships based on our unique voice and our trusted connection
with the millennial market.
GREY New York – New York City
Grey is a full-service advertising agency for the 21st Century that delivers brand
communications in every channel. Amid constant change, the company maintains a single
focus: to accelerate the potential of clients’ brands with powerful, creative ideas. The
wintern would work with the music department, which is involved with all aspects of the
agency's creative musical offering.
Seftel Productions – New York City – 3 Winterns
Seftel Productions is a boutique production company that produces award- winning
documentaries, feature films, commercials, and digital media. Dedicated to creating
artful, engaging work with a social conscience, our productions have appeared on HBO,
PBS, A&E, Bravo, Showtime, and many others. Recent highlights include the ongoing
Emmy and Webby-nominated PBS series The Secret Life of Scientists, the Telly Awardwinning 13-part series for Public Television Invitation to World Literature, the acclaimed
PBS series NOVA Science NOW, and the PBS prime time mini-series Lidia Celebrates
America, featuring chef Lidia Bastianich. Additionally, Seftel Productions has been a
pioneer in the digital realm, producing web series for Liberty Mutual’s prestigious website
the Responsibility Project, and well as the Case Award-winning web campaign The Human
Factor, which raised $500 million for MIT in just 9 months.
Interns will work closely with the company’s core staff in four areas:
1. Development: Assisting with projects in development. Tasks include performing
essential research, writing script coverage and helping to keep projects organized.
2. Production Management Support: Helping our production manager to execute shoots.
Tasks include preparing call sheets, booking travel, expense reports, location research
and obtaining permits.
3. Daily office tasks: General support in keeping our office organized and productive.
Tasks might include filing and making runs.
4. Archival research: Assisting our archival researcher in finding and organizing photos
and video content. Requires an inquisitive mind, a diligent eye for detail and a creative
eye. Tasks include tracking down photos, organizing files and seeing projects through to
their completion, including legal shutdown and paperwork.
Starwood Hotels – New York City
Starwood Hotels is one of the world's largest hotel companies. It owns, operates,
franchises and manages over 1200 hotels, resorts, spas and vacation properties
worldwide. Some of its signature properties include the Westin, Sheraton and W hotel
chains.
The wintern will work with Alex Stein, A12, who is a social media and digital analytics
strategist for the company.
Trickle Up – New York City
Since 1979, Trickle Up has been empowering people living in extreme poverty to take the
first steps out of poverty, providing them with resources to build livelihoods for a better
quality of life. Trickle Up works with community-based partner agencies in Asia, Africa,
Central America, and the Middle East to deliver our program of seed capital grants,
training and savings support. In the past five years, we have helped help start or expand
nearly 50,000 enterprises, improving the lives of more than 250,000 people. The wintern
will "shadow" Trickle Up’s president through meetings with staff, donors, and
others. The experience will provide the intern with greater knowledge of global poverty,
as well as a deeper understanding of the program, fundraising, communications, finance,
and administration functions of a nonprofit organization.
WNET/Channel 13 – New York City – 2 Winterns
As the flagship public broadcaster in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut metro
area, Thirteen/WNET reaches millions of viewers each week. It airs the best of American
public television, along with its own local productions. One of the Tufts winterns will work
with the staff of MetroFocus, a multi-platform news magazine focused on arts, culture,
and life in the New York region. The other wintern will work with MMG Arts. As an
innovative business initiative of WNET, MMG Arts is a centralized database of arts
programming that provides public television stations throughout the nation with a series
of broadcast and web platforms, including video segments, scripts, and more, which
independent stations can use to develop their own unique weekly art programs.
Young and Rubicam (Y&R) Advertising – New York City – 2 Winterns
Young and Rubicam Advertising is a major marketing communications firm looking for a
dynamic candidate to shadow one of its strategists for the week. The wintern will be
asked to pull together some information while they are there, using Young and Rubicam
research sources. The right person will have curiosity about people and their behavior as
well as an appreciation of popular culture and an interest in marketing and creativity. The
wintern will be asked to prepare something to share with Young and Rubicam staff in
January. They should bring a point of view about consumer products or service brands
that they feel have done something in digital or social media to connect really well to
college students or other young people.
PHILADELPHIA
Nancy Glass Productions – Philadelphia – 2 Winterns
Because this site requires that interns be receiving academic credit, to do this Winternship
a student must commit to taking a half-credit independent study with FMS Co-Director
Julie Dobrow in the Spring 2016 semester.
Nancy Glass Productions is an award winning television innovation offering a fresh
creative style for cable programming, broadband and web production, working in both
standard and high definition with full post production facilities and a special effects
studio. Clients include: HGTV, DIY, A&E, Veria, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Food
Network and many more.
WASHINGTON (STATE)
Kima-TV – Yakima, Washington
KIMA-TV is the CBS affiliated television station serving the Yakima, Washington region.
The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. KIMA offers the only local Yakimafocused newscast on weekdays for KIMA Action News at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. and has
maintained the #1 TV station ranking for the Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick
viewership market.
About the winternship: The student can shadow reporters and attend morning news
meetings with opportunities to pitch stories, assist with interviews, and also see how the
reporting process is completed for broadcast deadline -- such as filming, interviewing,
writing the story and editing footage. Crystal Bui, A12, will share perspective on what she
she’s done since graduating Tufts that's helped her work at such a successful station.