“For the past nine years, NPR has sponsored an internship program. Each summer…” With those words, the host of the very first NPR Intern Edition kicked off an experiment that would turn into the cornerstone of the NPR intern experience. Below is every show since 1999 except for the summer of 2001 (in which, sadly, we think we’ve lost the audio). We want to thank each and every previous intern for their dedication to Intern Edition. We strive to build upon each others work year after year, season after season. Here’s to ten more years of Intern Edition!
Ryan Kellett is the social media intern at NPR.
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Summer 1999
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: Robert Siegel was a guest on the first Intern Edition.
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Summer 2000
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: We’re still not sure what the “NPR 2 Internship” entailed, but it existed in 2000.
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Summer 2002
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns did a video project that is so distinctly 90s in flavor. (you need real player to view it)
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Summer 2003
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns did a photo gallery back before photo galleries were cool.
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Fall 2003
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: They didn’t have a website or at least we couldn’t find one.
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Spring 2004
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: One intern referenced Ira Glass. Yes, we still think he’s cool.
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Summer 2004
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: Interns reported on their “news” section whenever an intern got a job.
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Fall 2004
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns had meeting notes from various brown bag lunches and special info training sessions.
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Spring 2005
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: Back then, the NPR logo had a big registered symbol next to the logo.
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Summer 2005
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns featured intern alumni on their site.
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Fall 2005
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: One intern is hugging a plastic dog in their group photo for this year.
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Spring 2006
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: Favorite intern name of all time: Ke’Yuanda.
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Summer 2006
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: Their Intern Edition premiere has various “audio postcards” from all over the country!
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Fall 2006
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns had a serious blog going.
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Spring 2007
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns were just dishing out pearls of wisdom on their blog.
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Summer 2007
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: These interns certainly had the best icons of any Intern Edition.
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Fall 2007
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: The interns actually documented what they learned, including creating a video worthy of YouTube.
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Spring 2008
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: All graphics for their website were drawn by hand.
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Summer 2008
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: Can you spot the smallest use of the NPR logo in an Intern Edition website?
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Fall 2008
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: A few interns offer some of the most frank commentary on layoffs, hard times at NPR on the Mouth Noises podcast.
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Spring 2009
Intern Bios / Fun Fact: A few interns produced an online radio show and blog called Aural Orexis featuring mostly music.
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Summer 2009












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