Student Activities

Student Government | COMSA

The College of Communication Student Assembly COMSA, promotes unity, academically and socially, amongst all students of COM and Boston University.

Student Radio | WTBU

Hear WTBU Radio. This student run radio station serves the programming needs of students on campus.

Student TV

See the Spring season of Mass Appeal, a web TV show produced by the Graduate Broadcast Journalism students.

Student Advertising Agency | AdLab

AdLab is a student run advertising agency providing real life agency experience with real clients.

Student Public Relations Agency | PRLab

PRLab is a student run public relations agency providing professional opportunities with real clients.

Class Gifts

Graduating students, learn about honoring your professors and mentors with the Class Gifts program.

Internship Opportunities

Los Angeles Internship Program

The Los Angeles Internship Program offers a semester of study and work in the heart of the film and television industry. Courses are taught by members of the Boston University faculty and by alumni who also provide internship positions and serve as mentors in and outside of the classroom. Upon successful completion of a semester, students earn 16 Boston University credits (three four-credit courses and a four-credit internship), which fall within the film and television curriculum. All grading is done by Boston University faculty or the Academic Director.

Film and Television Internship Program

:: Click here for the Film & TV Internship Website.

Upon achieving senior status, qualified students are encouraged to participate in the internship program. Internships provide students with the opportunity to work at one of the many broadcast stations or numerous independent film and video production facilities or cable companies in the Boston area. This experience enables students to apply their academic training in a chosen career path. Students may intern either part time during the academic year or full time during the summer following the sophomore year. A summer internship is one way students can explore career opportunities outside the Boston area.

The Washington Journalism Center

:: Click here to visit the Washington Journalism Center website.

Senior journalism and graduate students have the chance to spend a semester in Washington, D.C., meeting newsmakers, working in the bureaus of national news organizations, reporting on Congress and the federal government for New England news outlets, and studying political reporting. In addition to a course in political reporting, additional seminars on the legislative process, money and politics, and political feature writing are offered by national journalists.

Students are provided with internships in the D.C. bureaus of national print and broadcast news organizations. They also serve as the Washington correspondents for New England news outlets through the Boston University Washington News Service, which has a newsroom also equipped with state of the art television and radio equipment in the Boston University Washington Center on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest Washington. Upon successful completion of the program, students earn 16 credits.

Journalism Internship Program

In conjunction with New England publishers, agencies, and broadcasters, the School has developed an extensive internship program for print, photo, and broadcast journalism majors. Internships for superior undergraduates can be arranged with the publishers of weekly and daily newspapers and magazines as well as radio, television, and cable news and public affairs programs. When possible, the student selects a publication within his or her field of specialization. Students may intern either part time during a regular semester or full time over the summer. For more details, see the course description for COM JO 411/412 or COM JO 413. Internships are also available year-round to broadcast journalism students at both public and commercial radio and television stations, and at Internet news organizations.

The Boston University/Boston Globe Summer Magazine Internship

This summer, one BU journalism student will spend eight weeks as a paid intern (approx. $700/week) at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Juniors, Seniors and Graduate Students are eligible.

To apply for this opportunity, which is sponsored by the College of Communication and the JO Department, please provide a one-page letter promoting your candidacy, a resume, and a maximum of five clips (either published stories or original classwork) to the JO Office.

Application packets must be submitted in 9x12 envelopes. The deadline is noon, Friday, March 23.

A panel of B.U. Journalism professors and Boston Globe editors will choose the winner.

Address questions to zuckoff@bu.edu.

Advertising Internships

Students, who major in advertising, may receive academic credit for an advertising internship prior to the summer of and during their senior year. Students must have a 3.0 grade point average in the College of Communication and have completed CM 317, Introduction to Advertising and CM 331, Writing for Communication prior to enrolling in the internship course. Students may choose to intern in an advertising agency, in the marketing department of a corporation, or in a media outlet outside of Boston during the summer or in the Boston market during the school year. Internships are not mandatory, but are encouraged, as an internship will count as one of the five required courses in a student’s academic major.

Multimedia and Mass Communication Internships

Leading College of Communication students may earn four graduate or undergraduate credits for work in any of the mass communication industries. Students may work part time during the semester or full time in the summer.

A Mass Comm internship provides students with real work experience such as multinational media consulting, website design, public, network and cable television production, radio production, communication research and the current presidential media campaign.