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These words were my introduction to my summer internship at The Hill, a congressional newspaper. I had just walked into the newsroom and met the only other female intern there. I did not realize it then, but I soon learned that there is a striking absence of estrogen among the nation’s media elite...
...control in newsrooms, women in general are taken more seriously. For example, a study on the media coverage of Elizabeth Dole’s short-lived 2000 presidential bid by the White House Project (a national organization dedicated to promoting women political candidates, at which I worked as an intern last summer), found that female journalists were more likely to report on Dole’s political record or stand on the issues while their male counterparts were more likely to focus on her personal characteristics...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has always seemed like a kind of temple to me as a devoted disciple of American history. As an intern there this summer, I work on an exhibit about the Star-Spangled Banner and the flag in American culture, and few things could be more American or encompass more of history than my exhibit, “For Which It Stands.” But for all the flag’s symbolism and emotional appeal, even it was not able to touch...
...MEZZANINE—Being an intern has its up and downs, literally: 3rd floor, 5th floor, ground floor, penthouse. The elevator rides don’t stop. But as I continually defy the laws of gravity, I have come to notice a few things about the office, particularly those which transpire behind closed—or, rather, opening and closing—doors...
...endeavors. If I had heard about this job description a month ago, I would have sworn I was working as a double-0 agent for MI6, Britain’s intelligence agency, or that Ian Fleming could have just as easily made James Bond a summer intern at a consulting firm...