For Interns, Blogging Brings Perils, Profits

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For Interns, Blogging Brings Perils, Profits

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Meryl Streep, right, and Anne Hathaway in “The Devil Wears Prada,” the film version of a novel based on an underling’s view of the inner workings at Vogue.

On the eve of the premiere of the underling-dishes-all movie “The Devil Wears Prada,” the N.Y. Time surveys the landscape of interns whose work-related blogs have brought them both pay and pink slips.

N.Y. Times:

On the first day of his internship last year, Andrew McDonald created a Web site for himself. It never occurred to him that his bosses might not like his naming it after the company and writing in it about what went on in their office.

For Mr. McDonald, the Web log he created, “I’m a Comedy Central Intern,” was merely a way to keep his friends apprised of his activities and to practice his humor writing. For Comedy Central, it was a corporate no-no especially after it was mentioned on Gawker.com, the gossip Web site, attracting thousands of new readers.

“Not even a newborn puppy on a pink cloud is as cute as a secret work blog!” chirped Gawker, giddily providing the link to its audience.

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By Mace Price, May 28, 2006 at 1:54 pm Link to this comment
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...God what a horrible image to put up.

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By MGB, May 27, 2006 at 12:39 pm Link to this comment
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How does an “intern” get a pink slip? The nature of being an intern is that you are not being paid so how does one really get fired from a job they are not being paid for? Living in Hollywood I see many job postings for someone to work 10-12 hour days for very little or no compensation except the “privilege” of working for these “important” people. Perhaps if all these high profile companies stopped relying on so much free labor they would find less “employees” with the time to write blogs about the inner workings of their company.

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