This fall semester I will be interning at the Florida State University Sports Information Office. This is my second semester at the internship, as i also spent the Summer 2010 there.The sports information office is a department of the university under the FSU Athletics Department. The office provides all the public relations services for all the sports that the university participates in, this includes producing media guides, maintaining a website with all the sports listed, working sporting events, writing stories and setting-up and organizing interviews for coaches and athletes.
This is not my first internship, i have also done internships with 4kidmedia.com, volunteered with the Florida A&M University Office of Communications and been an associate with the PRodigy Public Relations firm. My internship with 4kidmedia was a virtual internship, where I communicated with my internship boss through web chats and emails. With that internship I did a lot of research on different topics and helped redesign a sales page. At the office of communication, I helped with many different projects including organizing clippings and doing research for the newly re-designed school website. With the PRodigy PR firm, I participated in several several different projects over a 3-year span, also was able to work as a weekend-intern for the Florida Citrus Sports.
My hours for my internship will be Tuesday and Thursday from 2.30pm to 5pm and working Fall athletic events. The tasks that I will be working on will be stories for different sporting events or on individual players or coaches, assisting with different tasks at sporting events including taking pictures and keep up with stats. I will be reporting to the Associate Sports Information Director Chuck Walsh.
This semester I would like to learn more and more about sports public relations and helpful make connections that will allow me to get closer to my goal of being sports and entertainment media consultant.
