Inside ETV Endowment

This year proved challenging for our college interns, as working from home, Zoom meetings and social distancing have become the new normal. Despite these challenges, the 2020 ETV Endowment Interns were able to find new and creative ways to gain hands-on experience in public media this summer.

“If you want a glimpse into what public media is, and the ins and outs of planning, then I’d definitely recommend this internship to anyone. I have learned valuable skills for editing and planning that I wouldn’t have learned elsewhere.”

“I would absolutely recommend this internship to journalism and digital media students alike. It allows you to be involved in the planning and execution of stories that will go online or on television. I was given a lot of freedom to work and treated like another member of the team.”

“I would recommend this internship to others because you get great hands-on experience interning with SCETV. So many times I was sent out by myself to cover some event or story, and the best way to learn and get better at anything is to actually do it. Many of my friends interned at bigger stations in big cities like New York City, but that limited their opportunities—something which was never the case for me at SCETV this summer."

For the past 37 years, the ETV Endowment has proudly supported a 10-week paid summer internship for college students who wish to explore a career in media. We sat down with one of the 2018 interns, Shannon Simmons, a senior at Winthrop University to hear her public media story.

There are many reasons why I am excited to serve as an intern at SCETV but the main one would be that I am happy to work with an organization that provides shows like Sesame Street and Between the Lions, which helped foster in me and many others a love for education and knowledge.

We sat down with one of the 2018 interns, Rebecca Dymock, a rising senior at the University of South Carolina, to hear her public media story.