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- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 12
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- <p> Among aspiring writers and reporters, an internship at TIME is
- prized as one of the best summer jobs in journalism. Each year
- hundreds of college juniors at 40 participating schools compete
- for a chance to spend nine weeks in the Time & Life Building
- watching how we practice our editorial skills and trying their
- hands at big-time journalism. "It's an incredible opportunity,"
- says Minal Hajratwala, a communication major at Stanford
- University whose reporting on stories about plagiarism,
- Protestant superchurches and the resignation of Stanford
- President Donald Kennedy earned her three bylines in the
- magazine.
- </p>
- <p> But as even the most casual readers of the financial press
- know, there is more going on at Time Warner than reporting and
- writing, and this year a larger group of graduate and
- undergraduate students were invited as summer interns to learn
- about the business side of magazine publishing. "It was an
- exciting time to be here," says David Geithner, an M.B.A.
- candidate at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management who
- put his experience in investment banking to work analyzing the
- effectiveness of our advertising rates in today's uncertain
- economic climate.
- </p>
- <p> Alan Miles, a Harvard M.B.A. student who interned in the
- circulation department, was surprised by how many reports he had
- to turn out. "This is a very memo-driven company," he observed.
- Columbia graduate student Sallie Binnie, who regularly put in
- 11-hour days in our business office, did not expect the pace to
- be quite so hectic. "I kept waiting for that three-martini
- lunch," she says. "But it never showed up."
- </p>
- <p> Things kept hopping for the editorial interns as well. In
- his first week as a reporter-researcher, Amherst's Bryant
- Rousseau called a factory near Prague to get some weapon prices
- and tracked a British arms expert to his home in
- Upton-upon-Severn. Ronald Amstutz, a photography major at the
- Rochester Institute of Technology, was made responsible for
- illustrating the World Notes page and spent much of the summer
- scrambling to gather pictures from around the globe. One of his
- final duties: assigning a photographer, picking a site and
- getting his fellow interns to Brooklyn for the picture that
- appears on this page.
- </p>
- <p>-- Elizabeth P. Valk
- </p>
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