The 2018 class of summer interns at The New York Times offers a glimpse into journalism’s promising future. The journalists were chosen from literally thousands of applications that we received from around the world. They come from diverse backgrounds. And they arrive equipped with skills ranging from audio/visual and coding to reporting and multiplatform editing.
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Read on in a note from Ted Kim, Director of the Newsroom Fellowship and Internship Program:
I’m thrilled to announce the newsroom’s picks for the The New York Times 2018 summer internship. The class arrives in June.
Here are our newsroom picks, their assignments and colleges:
Rachel Buigas-Lopez, art design (Thomas Morgan Visual Journalism Internship in Design), New York University
Soraya Shockley, audio editor, Harvard University
Sabrina K. Bodon, multiplatform editor, Point Park University
Rachael Marie Bolek, multiplatform editor, University of Illinois
Kayla Lannette Cockrel, multiplatform editor, Wayne State University
Satoshi Sugiyama, multiplatform editor, Syracuse University
Tessa A. Bangs, multiplatform editor (Gainesville, Fla., Editing Center), University of Notre Dame
Jessica Peng, graphics editor (Morgan Internship), University of Pennsylvania
Ashley Ngu, graphics editor (Morgan Internship), Stanford University
Sahil Chinoy, graphics editor (Morgan Internship), University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Fischer, interactive news editor, University of Pennsylvania
Suzanne Wang, interactive news editor, Wellesley College
Marian Carrasquero, photographer (Morgan Internship), University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism
Emma Howells, photographer (Morgan Internship), Ohio University
Gabriella Angotti-Jones, photographer (Morgan Internship), San Francisco State University
Claire Ballentine, reporter (Business Day, James Reston Reporting Fellowship), Duke University
Amanda Svachula, reporter (Culture, Reston Fellowship), Northwestern University
Mariana Alfaro, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), Northwestern University
Tyler Blint-Welsh, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), Northeastern University
Melissa Gomez, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), University of Florida
Julia Jacobs, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), Northwestern University
Tyler Pager, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), University of Oxford
Aaron Robertson, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), University of Oxford
Catie Edmondson, reporter (Washington bureau, Reston Fellowship), Barnard College
Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, reporter (Washington bureau, David E. Rosenbaum Reporting Internship), University of California, Berkeley
Katherine Burns, social media editor, Emerson College
Adriana Lacy, social media editor, Pennsylvania State University
Sebastian Vega, social media editor, University of Southern California
Claire Molloy, video journalist, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism
Brian Ryu, video journalist, New York University
Maea Lenei Buhre, video journalist, Columbia University
Tryggvi Adalbjornsson, reporter (Climate, Reston Fellowship), Columbia University