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“I made a digital
“I made a digital
marketing plan for
marketing plan for
the Chicago Wolves
the Chicago Wolves
that their PR team
The internship that launched Sydney Bergan ’23 on a
that their PR team
now has.” path to covering the upcoming Summer Olympics in
now has.”
- Erika Safrin Paris, France, started off on an unexpected trajectory. Alumni Profile
- Erika Safrin As a junior at Syracuse University, Bergan landed an
internship through the prestigious Dow Jones News Fund
with McClatchy, but instead of serving as a
reporter—which was her career ambition—
Bergan was assigned to the digital media
program as an audience engagement intern.
“News judgment is very hard to come by,
recognizing what deserves the spotlight.
Those skills have been essential every
day of my career and it all comes back to
the years of training we had at Syracuse
University and in the Newhouse School.”
SYDNEY BERGAN
Audience Editor, USA Today
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