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Internships

A digital media and communication (DMAC) internship is a unique opportunity to gain practical, hands-on work experience in a professional environment. It allows you to take what you've learned in the classroom and apply it to a real-work setting.

Internships take place during the fall, spring or summer semesters and you'll receive academic credit for your efforts. This is your chance to make contributions to an organization and to demonstrate your potential value as a full-time employee after graduation.

Benefits of Doing an Internship

A digital media and communication internship provides you with the opportunity to:

  • Gain valuable work experience in communications before graduating.
  • Check out your interest in the field.
  • Clarify your interests and strengths, as well the weaknesses you need to work on.
  • Find out about additional job possibilities.
  • Develop your intellectual, problem-solving and leadership skills.
  • Gain relevant experience and skills, giving you greater potential to be hired by the organization you're serving as an intern.
  • Network with professionals in the communications field.
  • Gain a sense of self-confidence and professionalism.
  • Bring classroom learning to life.
  • Increase your job marketability in the communications field.
  • Narrow your focus and clarify your career goals.

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Associated Internship Providers

Television

  • Spectrum
  • WGRZ Channel 2
  • WIVB Channel 4
  • WKBW Channel 7
  • WNED-TV 

Publication

  • Buffalo News

Marketing & Communications Agencies

  • American Advertising Federation
  • Bruckman Media
  • Hemisphere Communications (David Baldassari)
  • Trellis Marketing

Radio

  • WBFO

Digital Media and Communications

Contact Us

Have a question about a Digital Media & Communications Internship? Contact us.

Prof. Christopher R. Gallant
Digital Media and Communications Internship Coordinator
Phone: (716) 926 - 8896
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Internship Coordinator

Chris Gallant

Chris Gallant is the coordinator of the internship program for the Communications department at Hilbert College and an Associate Professor of Digital Media and Communication. Additionally, he serves as the director of the Center for Creative Media at the college.

Chris Gallant's full-time professional career spans over 17 years of Industry work. He has worked at stations WRDW-TV/ Augusta, GA, WTOL-TV/Toledo, OH, WKBW-TV/Buffalo, NY and now at WGRZ-TV/Buffalo, NY. He received two NYS Emmys for his work in broadcast journalism, one in 2008 for "They Made a Mistake: the Anthony Capozzi Story" and one in 2010 for "Niagara Falls: A Tale of Two Cities". Gallant is a native Western New Yorker and was born in Buffalo, NY. He has also received seven Emmy nominations and numerous awards from the Associated Press, National Press Photographers Association and Gannett News. Gallant continues to freelance as a multimedia producer.

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