FCC to Offer Paid Internships, Diverse Recruitment
The FCC will provide paid internships and invest additional resources in recruiting students from educational institutions serving minorities starting in January, said a news release Thursday. It's a joint effort by Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks. For the…
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past several years, the FCC only offered voluntary, unpaid internships, the release said. “Establishing a paid internship program will help students who would otherwise have to forego an internship due to financial constraints,” Pai said. “My goal for this initiative is for our communications sector to better reflect the diversity of people across the country,” Starks said. “We can’t produce effective communication policies if we don’t accurately account for the diversity of issues Americans face.” CTA Vice President-Policy and Regulatory Affairs Jamie Susskind, a former aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr, praised the initiative. “As someone who was a former FCC intern, as well as someone who used to hire FCC interns, it would have been great to have paid internships,” she tweeted. The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council hopes this "will encourage those the FCC regulates -- and others in the industry --- to do their part to achieve a diverse pipeline in terms of talent, ownership, and in the supply chain," said Chair Ronald Johnson.