Weekly Roundup
Welcome to Weekly Roundup, where we find out what all the NPR interns have been up to all week long!
Benjamin Morris (Science Desk, Multimedia) had his photos featured on The Salt, NPR’s Food Blog in the entry “Hot Or Not? Potato Board Tries To Un-Dud The Spud.”
Jessica Stoller-Conrad (Science Desk) published a number of stories on The Salt: ”Seven Strange Food Museums To Spice Up Your Summer Travel Plans,” “Designer Kitchens And Why We Think We Need Them,” and “Long Before Social Networking, Community Cookbooks Ruled The Stove.”
Kevin Uhrmacher (Design) and Angela Wong (Design) are credited for their work on the Human Tissue Donation series. Check out “Interactive: The Anatomy Of Human Tissue Profits” and “Calculating The Value Of Human Tissue Donation” for their work.
Austin Cooper (Music) wrote for the “First Listen: Passion Pit, ‘Gossamer’” piece and contributed to the recurring series “You’ve Never Heard…?!” with his entry on Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back.”
Daisy Alioto (Social Media Desk) contributed to the It’s All Politics blog and penned the piece “Urban Outfitters And The Politics Of Cool.”
Stefania Ferro (Digital News, Editorial Desk) wrote “A Tale Of Two Cities: Too Many Jobs, Or Not Enough.”
Megan Johnson (Communications - Corporate & Internal) wrote a few entries over on the This Is NPR blog: “Andy Cohen Loves NPR,” “Donald Faison Loves NPR,” “Anna Gunn Loves NPR,” “Aaron Sorkin Loves NPR,” and “Sigourney Weaver Hearts NPR.”
Hannah Karl (Communications - Creative Services & Branding) designed “Reason #1.43 to Love NPR” over on the This Is NPR blog.
Lyndsey McKenna (Office of the Ombudsman) contributed an entry to the Ombudsman blog called “Spoiler Alert: The Olympics Are Back.”
Daniel Frohlich (Audience Insight and Research): “I conducted my first usability test of the Infinite Player with an audience member and I started tracking my Intern Edition story.” Additionally, Daniel wanted it to be known that when he declared something was “ludicrous,” he was served by a fellow intern and sent this gem.
Johanna Cohoon (Corporate Sponsorship): “I played mini-golf at the National Building Museum with the Digital Marketing team.”
Angela Wong (Design): “I went to Pittsburgh last weekend for my sister’s bachelorette party. We went to the farmer’s market and the Natural History Museum.”
Nicole Lehotsky (Music Library): “Aside from the book launch party I went to last week, this past week, I made a casserole.” (photo below)
Meg McCluskey (International Services) and Tahsan Scott (Audio Engineering) took a trip to New York for an Intern Edition feature.
Don’t forget to check out the Intern Edition blog for even more intern-created content!
