How to Switch Careers to Social Work in the Age of Covid-19

The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. Social distancing has become the new norm for daily life everywhere, making it difficult to serve vulnerable populations. Schools are closing all over the country, leaving at-risk …

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10 Tips for Updating Your Online Portfolio

There are plenty of reasons why an online portfolio might be exactly what you need to make a splash in the New Year. Perhaps you're an architecture student showcasing a project to bolster your internship applications. You might be a …

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Q&A With Marcus Lemonis, Star of CNBC’s ‘The Profit’

At the age of 12, Marcus Lemonis, star of CNBC's “The Profit,” owned a lawn cutting business that made $1,000 a week. At 22, without any prior political experience (other than a summer internship on Capitol Hill), Lemonis ran for …

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How to Break into the TV Industry

Many TV critics are calling the current state of television “the golden age” or “peak TV.” And for good reason. There are now more than 400 scripted series on television, double the number there were in 2009. And given the rise …

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Video Game Industry Careers: An Inside Look at Gaming Jobs & How You Can Land One

In the last year and a half of the pandemic, video games have come to serve as a release valve for the cooped-up populace, enabling players to vicariously experience things they no longer could in the real world. “I thought …

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The Future of Entertainment Is Just More and More and More of This

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The strangest thing about Space Jam: A New Legacy, the “standalone sequel” to the 1996 hit, is that an algorithm played by Don Cheadle is the villain of the …

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Evelyn Chen Student Intern, Strategic Communication
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Entertainment Marketing: Tips for Your Recreation, Arts, or Entertainment Business

This article from Constant Contact written by Suzanne Wentley

If there’s anything that 2020 has proven to business owners focused on recreation, arts, and entertainment, it’s that they need to get online.

Digital isn’t just for creative offerings, either. You …

By Evelyn Chen
Evelyn Chen Student Intern, Strategic Communication
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What Does a Career in Animation Look Like?

Animators are artists who design the moving characters that appear in movies, videos, television shows, commercials, and other digital media such as web sites and video games. Animators are also known as digital animators and motion cartoonists. Currently, there are more than …

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3 Career Lessons from Oscar-Winner Chloé Zhao

On Sunday, Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color and only second woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Zhao is the filmmaker behind Nomadland, a quiet and compassionate study of American itinerant workers who rely on …

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Recommendation Engines Are Getting Smarter. But Are We Ready for the Era of Personalized Entertainment?

Take a look at your Netflix homepage. Scroll down, past the banner-sized trailer playing at the top—it’s probably something right up your alley, but don’t get distracted. Look for the row of thumbnails labeled, “Popular on Netflix.” Coincidentally, your new …

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