It seems to me that most college students reduce their TV watching when they get to college – at least the ones who don’t have cable in their dorm room. There are too many other things that you either have to do or want to do, so watching tv moves down the list. Still, communal dorm TVs get pretty crowded during primetime. I mostly used the TVs for watching sports, and trying to watch a Yankees game on a “good” TV night often required that I walk down a few floors to find a group of fellow fans who were already watching. Not once in my TV hopping did I come across any of my peers watching something with educational value. Had I been hoping to watch something like the shows produced by American Documentary, I probably would have been out of luck. If you are one of the kids who usurps the communal TVs and ensures that you get your weekly fix of PBS, then an internship with AmDoc might be a great way for you to spend part of your Fall. If you’re one of those kids watching primetime TV or ignoring TV for the better things in college life, but you still love PBS, you’d also make a great intern at AmDoc.
AmDoc is a non-profit multimedia company that explores the potential of independent media in public life and produces P.O.V. and True Lives. Last week, Irene Villaseñor, Youth Views Manager at P.O.V., e-mailed us and asked us to share P.O.V.’s Fall internship opportunities with our readers. We were pretty impressed by their offerings, so we You can find the announcement on their blog and can get the full, albeit outdated, details on the internships on AmDoc’s Jobs and Internships page. If you’re not familiar with P.O.V., it is “television’s longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. P.O.V. premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and innovative programs every year on PBS.”
P.O.V. is looking for Fall interns (presumably in their New York City office) who are great communicators (verbally and in writing) and consistently pay significant attention to detail. P.O.V. offers internships in production/programming, research and development, community engagement and education, Web, and communications and marketing. Internships are unpaid and require a commitment of at least 10 hours per week. You can apply by sending a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to internships@pov.org before September 1, 2008 (they offer internships year round, this is just the Fall deadline). If you have any questions about P.O.V. or the internships, you can contact Irena Villaseñor at villasenor@pov.org or (212) 989-8121, extension 319.
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