My love affair with basketball started when I was only a baby. That was when my dad began carrying me underneath the turnstiles at Madison Square Garden to watch the Knicks. As I’ve grown older and worked throughout my time at USC, I’ve always thought about how I could turn my passion for the game into a career. Despite peaking at 5’11” (on a good day) I made my hoop dreams come true...

Whenever I think about a magazine internship, the first things that come to mind (thanks to Gossip Girl and The Devil Wears Prada) are coffee runs, lunch orders and dry cleaning.

Luckily, I never had to do any of those things this summer as an editorial intern at the Arts & Culture department of Los Angeles Magazine. In fact, I did more than I could ever imagine.

My boss,...

My mom never let me watch Gossip Girl growing up, so naturally, I searched for ways to watch such a brilliant show on my own without her knowing. When Hulu launched in 2007, they gave a young sixth grade me the opportunity to watch each new episode the day after it aired for free online, no subscription necessary. I have always had a special place in my heart for Hulu, since I felt I...

I first heard about The Hollywood Reporter internship program in the back of an Uber. I had just joined a sorority and some of the older members had invited new members out to dinner to get to know each other better. We were covering all of the typical bases: what year we were graduating, where we were from and what we were studying. When I mentioned I was studying journalism, the...

This past spring, I had the opportunity to intern full time at The Academy of Country Music in Encino, CA. I am a graduate student in Communication Management, and have hopes of establishing a career in marketing and publicity in the music industry. I came across this internship on The Academy’s website in September, and throughout the next several months went through three rounds of...

It was in mid spring of the first year of my master’s program when I received an email announcing Annenberg’s internship and job fair. Among the impressive list of companies was the agency I had always admired: Edelman. At the time I was already set to intern in London over the summer, but I could not shy away from this incredible networking opportunity. When I arrived at the fair, I...

Opportunity. That’s what I saw when I accepted my internship at NBC Nightly News. The opportunity to learn, the opportunity to meet new people in the news industry, the opportunity to make an impact on how news is covered, and most of all the opportunity to grow as a journalist.

When I walked in to the Brokaw News Center for the first day of my internship, I had three goals in...

I was hit in the face my first day of seventh grade softball team practice. I cut my toe on a pool jet in my first week of eighth grade swim team practice and had to go to urgent care. My freshman year of high school, I didn’t even make the frosh-soph volleyball team.

Playing sports was not my thing, but I was always a fan. I jumped at the chance to go to one of my brother’s...