It’s 8:56 am on a dark and wintery Wednesday morning; this normally calls for a cozy day to stay under the covers. But in the world of public relations, most of the employees most likely pulled an all-nighter in their cubicles. My eyes immediately follow the trace of paperwork and thick binders leading to my desk space. Colorful sticky notes with hastily scrawled penmanship fill the borders of...
Chelsea Spinos. Coming to USC as a junior transfer student, I was a bit anxious by the time spring came around. I felt the pressure of landing an amazing summer internship, as everyone around me would constantly talk about how paramount it would be for determining your postgraduate plans. This definitely freaked me out! As a transfer, I only had internship experiences in my hometown of...
I still remembered one of the interview questions was, “So which brand’s marketing strategy do you like the most in the digital space?”
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Qinyu (Hailey) Ji. “I think it should be Nasty Gal, because they really target at what you want and customize the ads to you.
Three days later, I received an email titled as “An Unofficial Yes”. From there...
“Command influence with stories well-told.” This is the mantra of Blaze PR, an agency located in the heart of Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade where I have been working as a public relations intern for the past 5 months. I applied to this internship program during Summer 2016, after I saw a job posting on USC Annenberg Career Link. I was excited to discover that the president of Blaze PR,...
Growing up, the Desert Sun was the one stop shop for all the news in the Coachella Valley. Reading the paper with in the morning with my family became a daily ritual and it is where I grew my love for journalism and reading. Never did I imagine that I would have the opportunity to join the newspaper and see my own name on an A1 cover, but that is precisely what happened this summer.
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It was my first day of my internship at BuzzFeed. My blue Prius purred as I came to a stop at the Siren Studios lot, one of BuzzFeed’s offices in LA. I squinted as I looked through my car windshield at someone I thought I recognized. It took me a few seconds to process that I was staring at Keith from the Try Guys, and another few seconds to put together that he was coming into work on that...
I spent eight weeks in San Ramon, California working as an intern in Chevron’s Policy, Government and Public Affairs department. Within the department, I worked primarily with the Downstream and Chemicals Public Affairs Manager for the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. My experience at Chevron not only gave me hands-on experience in the public affairs field, but it also helped me...
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...