Colleen-Indianapolis Monthly

1) Where do you intern and in what department?
2) How long have you been interning?
3) What are some of your day to day duties?
4) If you won the lottery whats the first purchase you would make?
5) Any big projects you are working on for the summer at Emmis?
6) What did accomplish this summer during your internship?

1. Indianapolis Monthly, Editorial Dept.
2. Since early June
3. We drink a lot of coffee, fact check stories that come through the editorial dept., do shop updates, write restaurant reviews on the blog, and do lots of odds and ends that help fill the gaps between the time a story is sent to the editor and before it hits the press.
4. A bottle of champagne, a party hat, and three trips to Europe for my family, my boyfriend and myself.
5. We are just finishing out the annual shops issue, and I'm working on gathering ideas for a small scale feature that I'd love to see in the magazine next summer
6. I learned a great deal about the magazine industry: how important fact checking is, and how many hands have to go into making a story sound good, be truthful, and look good in a spread. Yet, mostly I learned how quickly the turn around is for magazine stories. You have to be at the top of your game constantly. When you're done with a story, it's always time to write a new one. The Indy Monthly Editorial and Art staff are all extremely bright; they come up with new angles, ideas and topics on our city constantly.

This is picture is of Colleen at a trip to DisneyWorld the summer!!