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FSC students selected for
Dow Jones internships

LAKELAND, Fla. (Jan. 12, 2004) - Florida Southern College seniors Rita Florez and Kim Olson have been selected as Dow Jones Newspaper Fund (DJNF) editing interns for summer 2004. Both communication majors serve on the editorial staff of the college newspaper. 

DJNF offers annual summer internships in business reporting, real-time financial newswires, online editing, news copy editing and sports copy editing. Each program provides free pre-internship training seminars on college campuses and weekly salaries starting at $325 for a minimum of 10 weeks. Interns who return to college full-time the following fall will receive $1,000 scholarships from the Fund. 

Florez will train in the Northeast program held at Temple University, Philadelphia, and will work at the Hartford Courant, America's oldest newspaper. Florez is the daughter of Eduardo Florez of Lakeland and Cindy Florez of Miami. 

Olson was selected for the Knight-Ridder Newspaper program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and will intern at the Tallahassee Democrat. Olson is the daughter of Gary Olson of Lake St. Louis, Mo. 

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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