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- <title>
- Aug. 09, 1993: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Aug. 09, 1993 Lost Secrets Of The Maya
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Summertime at the TIME & LIFE building means vacations and vacant
- desks--a perfect time to have some extra help around. Fortunately,
- each summer since 1977 we have received that help from student
- interns. The youngsters "provide an energy that is very refreshing,"
- says Debara Thornton-Klein of the human-resources department
- for all Time Inc. magazines. "It's infectious." In return the
- students receive a little money and a lot of experience. Since
- each works at only one magazine, we gather them at regular brown-bag
- lunches so they learn about the company's various publications.
- Most are entering their senior year of college and have experience
- on campus publications.
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- <p> This year Thornton-Klein contacted placement offices at 42 colleges
- and reviewed 60 applications for 18 slots on the editorial staffs
- of our magazines. Her colleague Nancy Walter, who handled applications
- for the publishing side, sent TIME two interns. Evelyn Jones
- is in her second summer, taking on a range of tasks for public
- affairs director Robert Pondiscio, while Nikki Taylor works
- in the marketing division, analyzing how our coverage compares
- with that of other magazines.
- </p>
- <p> On the editorial side, we have four interns. Sarah Okrent, who
- works on graphics and layout for the newspaper at Ohio University,
- is assisting with those tasks in our art department. An equally
- appropriate assignment was drawn by Tamala Edwards. Newly graduated
- from Stanford with a degree in international relations, she
- is writing and researching for TIME's international editions.
- Alice Park, who is completing a master's degree in science journalism
- at Boston University, has reported for pieces on Alzheimer's
- disease, the human-growth hormone and the genetic basis for
- homosexuality. Alexandra Lange, from Yale, is assigned to The
- Week, for which, among other things, she interviewed Senator
- Bob Dole about David Gergen and phoned 20 bookstores to check
- how Joe McGinnis' much publicized book on Ted Kennedy is selling.
- </p>
- <p> After her nine weeks at TIME, Park says, "I will never take
- a magazine for granted. I think people who read a magazine have
- no idea how much work goes into it." Edwards brings an interesting
- perspective to our halls, since she filled an internship at
- ABC-TV News last summer. She's greatly enjoyed her colleagues
- at both shops, but finds she prefers the print medium to video.
- "It's just more satisfying. I love words, and with only three
- minutes there's not much you can say." Sounds right to us.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
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