THE INTERN: The candidates speaketh

If you've been following along at home, you know there's been a lot of prep work already for The Intern, a major piece of the Orlando conference that guarantees the top three finalists real-life summer jobs at three major metro dailies next year.

Much of the action is already in the can. The Interns arrived in Orlando over the weekend and the trials began. But since we don't get to see what happened until later in the week (the field of 10 candidates will be narrowed to 5 on Friday, 3 on Saturday and a final winner chosen live at the closing banquet on Saturday night)... we CAN hear from the interns themselves -- in their own words. Check these blogs and links to portfolios and personal web sites:


William Couch
Blog: visualeditors.com/couch and here savewilliamcouch.com
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=9333

Barbara Desoto
Blog: visualeditors.com/desoto
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=11142

Stephanie Guigou
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=9686

Tory Hargo
Blog: visualeditors.com/hargro
Web site: http://www.nextverge.com/choosetory/html/homepage.asp

Carrie Hoover
Blog: visualeditors.com/hoover
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=6134

Joey Kirk
Blog: visualeditors.com/kirk
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=8519

Billy Kulpa
Blog: visualeditors.com/kulpa
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=9164

Nina Mehta
Blog: visualeditors.com/mehta
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=9148

Tiffany Schwarz
Portfolio: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=6693

Tawanna Sikes


For more on the competition and video introductions from the contestants visit The Interns.

And of course, keep checking back at The SND International Web Desk for updates and behind-the-scenes gossip of and about The Interns.