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CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield

Summer Internship 2014

Summer Intern Reel:

For this reel, Maggie stacked the rundown with stories of her choosing, coded all the elements and wrote the final story.

As an intern for CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield, Maggie took on the role of social media producer. This most notably included co-managing the @CNNnewsroom Twitter handle, where she live-tweeted shows. To prepare, she would compile a Twitter Rundown, complete with topics of each show block, names of all reporters and guests with corresponding Twitter handles and re-tweetable quotes/pictures from pre-tapes of that week. @CNNnewsroom gained more than 6,000 followers while Maggie was in charge of it. In addition, she would take photos both in and out-of-studio to be shared across multiple platforms, including the Newsroom Twitter and Fredricka's Twitter/Facebook accounts. Maggie helped Fredricka in the operation of these personal accounts as well. Check out some of the tweets below!





























Retweeted to 13 million followers

Maggie had the opportunity to try different things in her internship as well, including writing lead-ins and lead-outs, building graphics, banners and uppers, helping write tweets for the #MyBigMoment campaign through Special Projects and even shooting b-roll for a package through Inside Pitch where some of her shots made air on CNN. Check out some of this work below!