The Ski Channel seeks reporting interns from Indiana University
Oct. 1, 2009 12:36 p.m.
Indianapolis –The National Sports Journalism Center is partnering with The Ski Channel to create internship opportunities for IU and IUPUI journalism students.
“This will give our students the opportunity to gain some valuable practical experience writing for a major national Web site and cable channel,” said Timothy A. Franklin, director of the National Sports Journalism Center and the Louis A. Weil, Jr. Endowed Chair of the IU School of Journalism. “At the same time, the Ski Channel will benefit from the work of a stable of talented and eager young sports journalists.”
Richard Tavtigian, vice president of content and business development for The Ski Channel, said the station “is thrilled” to launch a partnership with the center and Indiana University’s School of Journalism.
“If The Ski Channel can provide a platform for students to express a passion for mountain sports and to apply the skills they’ve acquired at the NSJC, then we are helping them fulfill their goals as students, while they are helping us fulfill our goal, which is to inform and inspire people to embrace the mountain culture that surrounds us all,” Tavtigian said. “The fact that our CEO and I are both graduates of Indiana University just makes the endeavor that much more gratifying."
The IU interns will work remotely from Indiana, but report to an editor in California, where the Ski Channel is based. The interns will be filing breaking news stories, and features off of assigned beats. The Ski Channel’s Web site is ranked No. 1 in the industry for traffic and content, and the network reaches more than 23 million U.S. homes. Interest in the sport is expected to rise considerably with the approach of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games set for early next year.
The internships are unpaid; however, the expanding network expects to hire full-time reporters and producers from the intern program in the coming months. Students also will work at a company run by IU alumni Steve Bellamy, who is the CEO and chairman, and Tavtigian.
These are just the first of several internships the National Sports Journalism Center expects to announce in the coming weeks. For future announcements, visit www.sportsjournalism.org, or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/sportsjournalism or via Twitter at twitter.com/iusportscenter.
ABOUT THE SKI CHANNEL:
Based in Los Angeles, The Ski Channel is seen in more than 23 million U.S. households and it operates the top-ranked ski site, which reported approximately 155,000 visitors in July. Video-on-demand requests could hit five billion in 2009.
The Ski Channel has produced more than 100 hours of original programming, including coverage of the U.S. Alpine and Nordic Teams summer training, and features of popular athletes such as Graham Watanabe, Kaylin Richardson and Ted Ligety.
For more on The Ski Channel, visit www.theskichannel.com.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL SPORTS JOURNALISM CENTER:
The Indianapolis-based National Sports Journalism Center is the nation’s most comprehensive sports media program. The center offers countless resources to sports media professionals, undergraduate sports journalism courses and it plans on launching graduate-level sports journalism courses in the coming months at Indiana University in Bloomington and at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
For more on the center, visit www.sportsjournalism.org
“This will give our students the opportunity to gain some valuable practical experience writing for a major national Web site and cable channel,” said Timothy A. Franklin, director of the National Sports Journalism Center and the Louis A. Weil, Jr. Endowed Chair of the IU School of Journalism. “At the same time, the Ski Channel will benefit from the work of a stable of talented and eager young sports journalists.”
Richard Tavtigian, vice president of content and business development for The Ski Channel, said the station “is thrilled” to launch a partnership with the center and Indiana University’s School of Journalism.
“If The Ski Channel can provide a platform for students to express a passion for mountain sports and to apply the skills they’ve acquired at the NSJC, then we are helping them fulfill their goals as students, while they are helping us fulfill our goal, which is to inform and inspire people to embrace the mountain culture that surrounds us all,” Tavtigian said. “The fact that our CEO and I are both graduates of Indiana University just makes the endeavor that much more gratifying."
The IU interns will work remotely from Indiana, but report to an editor in California, where the Ski Channel is based. The interns will be filing breaking news stories, and features off of assigned beats. The Ski Channel’s Web site is ranked No. 1 in the industry for traffic and content, and the network reaches more than 23 million U.S. homes. Interest in the sport is expected to rise considerably with the approach of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games set for early next year.
The internships are unpaid; however, the expanding network expects to hire full-time reporters and producers from the intern program in the coming months. Students also will work at a company run by IU alumni Steve Bellamy, who is the CEO and chairman, and Tavtigian.
These are just the first of several internships the National Sports Journalism Center expects to announce in the coming weeks. For future announcements, visit www.sportsjournalism.org, or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/sportsjournalism or via Twitter at twitter.com/iusportscenter.
ABOUT THE SKI CHANNEL:
Based in Los Angeles, The Ski Channel is seen in more than 23 million U.S. households and it operates the top-ranked ski site, which reported approximately 155,000 visitors in July. Video-on-demand requests could hit five billion in 2009.
The Ski Channel has produced more than 100 hours of original programming, including coverage of the U.S. Alpine and Nordic Teams summer training, and features of popular athletes such as Graham Watanabe, Kaylin Richardson and Ted Ligety.
For more on The Ski Channel, visit www.theskichannel.com.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL SPORTS JOURNALISM CENTER:
The Indianapolis-based National Sports Journalism Center is the nation’s most comprehensive sports media program. The center offers countless resources to sports media professionals, undergraduate sports journalism courses and it plans on launching graduate-level sports journalism courses in the coming months at Indiana University in Bloomington and at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
For more on the center, visit www.sportsjournalism.org
