Time International August 23, 1993 [antikvár]

FROM THE PUBLISHER Summertime at the time life building in new york City means vacations and vacant desks—a perfect time for extra help. Fortunately, each summer since 1977 we have received that help from student interns. They "provide an energy that is very refreshing," says Debara Thornton-Klein of the hu-man-resources department for all Time Inc. magazines. "It's infectious." In return the students receive a little money and a lot of experience. The interns gather at regular infonnal lunches so they can learn about the company's various publications. Most are entering their senior year of college and have experience on campus publications. This year Thornton-Klein contacted placement offices at 42 colleges and reviewed 60 applications for 18 slots on the editorial staffs of our magazines. Her colleague Nancy Walter, who handled applications for the publishing side, sent Time two interns. Evelyn Jones is in her second summer, taking on a range of tasks for public affairs director Robert Pondiscio, while Nikki Taylor works in the marketing division, analyzing how our coverage compai-es with that of other magazines. On the editorial side, we have four interns. Sarah Okrent, who Interns Okrent, Jones, Lange, Park, Edwards works on graphics and layout for the newspaper at Ohio University, is assistingwith those tasks in ourart department. An equally appropriate assignment was drawn by Tamala Edwards. Newly gi'aduated from Stanford with a degi'ee in international relations, she is witing and researching for Time's international editions. Alice Park, who is completing a master's degi'ee in science journalism at Boston University, has reported on Alzheimer's disease, the human-gi'owlh hormone and the genetic basis for homosexuality. Alexandra Lange, from Yale, is assigned to The Week, for which, among other things, she interviewed U.S. Senator Bob Dole about Counsellor to the Pi-esident David Gergen and phoned 20 bookstores to check how Joe McGinnis' much publicized book on Senator Ted Kennedy is selling. Alter her nine weeks at Time, Park says. "I will never take a magazine for granted. I think people who read a inagazine have no idea how much work goes into it." Edwards brings an inieresting perspective to us, since she was an intern at abc-tv News lasi summer. She's gi'eatly enjoyed both shops, but hnds she prefers the print medium to video. "It's just more satisfying. 1 love words, and with only three minutes there's not much you can say." Sounds light to us.