Section 1:

Internship Goals and Objectives

My objectives for my internship were primarily three main goals.
The first goal was to gain an understanding of the structure of the
organization that my internship was comprised of. I believe that I have
in fact been able to achieve this goal in understanding the
organizational structure of my internship with Voice of America. I was
able to achieve this goal by consistently asking questions on the first
day of my internship and throughout to the simplest task of touring the
building to familiarize myself with the different locations of different
departments. Additionally, I would observe inter-departmental relations
in order to understand the hierarchy of Voice of America. I would
always be an active observer in each work environment I was in so that
I could understand the roles and responsibilities for each working
professional. Lastly, I was able to gain an insight on how each
department of Voice of America effectively worked together.
My second goal for my internship was to acquire skills,
knowledge, and the proper experiences necessary in order to gain a
position in the communications media field in the future. In order to
complete this goal I met with my supervisor on multiple occasions to
gauge my progress in my internship and to voice myself on what I
wanted to gain out of my internship with Voice of America. I always
sought out constructive criticism on assignments and tasks I was given

in order to ensure that I was working to the best of my abilities. I made

sure to ask questions for the purpose of gaining knowledge or
clarifying a new skill I had just learned in order to make sure that I had
fully understood and could use the skill in the future.
For my third goal, I had hoped to work for a professional
organization of communications media. In this case, it was working
with and for Voice of America, the major media outlet from the United
States government. What led to me achieving this third goal was the
fact that I was actually able to produce media for this known
organization. This was done through the form of creating and editing a
digital short that went viral through our social media platforms, which
received over 40,000 views and counting. Last but not least I was able
to contribute overall to Voice of America through the means of various
communications media skills I have learned during my time at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. I was able to harness my skills with
broadcasting, broadcast journalism, media production, promotions,
photography, social media, and video editing.
My education as IUP would be a key factor with my immense
success during my internship with Voice of America. The instructive
lectures in classes that I received through theoretical courses and
production courses were the bulk of my foundation for being able to
complete exceptional work. I was able to gain most of the skills I
needed in order my internship to go smoothly and to impress my

supervisors from day one with the amount of knowledge and

experience I had already had thanks to my classes at IUP. The classes
that were the most useful to me would be television production and
video intensive classes like media field studies because the skills I
learned in those classes transferred directly to the type of work that I
did with my time at Voice of America. Those skills were specifically
learning each facet that goes into a total production, whether it is
television production to producing a video project. Finally, the Adobe
Creative Suite training has been useful.