Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
For a lot of college students, unpaid internships are a way to get experience and a foot in the door.
But lately, the value of these work arrangements for interns has been coming under harsh scrutiny.
This week a U.S. District judge ruled Fox Searchlight violated the law by not paying interns who worked on the film "Black Swan." Two former interns at Conde Nast filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the media company for lack of payment.
Sensing a pattern, ProPublica, the non-profit news organization, has launched an investigation into unpaid internships. Reporters there are asking interns past and present, to tell them their stories.
Blair Hickman, ProPublica's community editor, joins the show with more.