Event

A roundtable discussion featuring students, staff and faculty devoted to how opportunities at Penn, from the Creative Writing Program's Journalistic Writing Minor to paid internship opportunities through the RealArts program to networking events at the Writers House, can prepare you for a career in reporting, editing, photojournalism, social media, or other areas of journalism. Open to all.

CHLOE SHAKIN is a senior English major and Journalistic Writing minor. She serves on the Editorial and Business Boards of The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. and Executive Board of 34th Street Magazine as Street's Audience Engagement Director. Chloe was given a RealArts stipend to work as a digital communications intern in the Mayor's Press Office in Philadelphia during the summer of 2016. This past summer, Chloe worked as a marketing intern at The New York Times on its Media Management team (which is responsible for generating digital subscriptions).

R.J. BERNOCCO is Associate Director of the RealArts@Penn program at University of Pennsylvania. RealArts@Penn connects Penn undergraduates with paid internship opportunities, mentorship prospects and arts related professional development. R.J. has been a part of the Penn community for eleven years. He holds a Bachelors degree in Film and Media Arts from Temple University as well as his Masters in Public Administration from University of Pennsylvania. In his down time, he can be found listening to records, browsing record stores or walking his dog around South Philly.

MINGO REYNOLDS is Director of Adminstration at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and Director of RealArts@Penn, which connects Penn undergraduates with paid internship opportunities, mentorship prospects and arts related professional development.

DAN SPINELLI is a College senior from the Philadelphia suburbs and editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn's student newspaper. He has previously interned at The Philadelphia Daily News, POLITICO, and Forbes.

DICK POLMAN is the Maury Povich Writer in Residence at Penn as well as a political columnist for WHYY/Newsworks. As a 22-year staff reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, he covered five presidential campaigns as the paper's national political writer and columnist; helmed the London bureau as a foreign correspondent; covered the Philadelphia Phillies; and was a long-form contributor to the Inquirer's Sunday magazine. Prior to the Inquirer, he was a metro columnist on The Hartford Courant, and was the founding editor of an alternative newspaper, the Hartford Advocate.