MassComm Student Selected to Participate in 2018 Excellence in Journalism conference

Lily Cummings, a senior journalism major in the award-winning Loyola University New Orleans School of Communication and Design, was chosen as an intern for CBS News for the summer of 2019. Lily works on CBS This Morning Saturday in New York City. She was one of 48 interns chosen from an application pool of 4,425 applicants. 

Lily is the former president and vice president of Loyola's chapter of RTDNA. Lily was the executive producer for The Maroon in the fall of 2017. She also has worked in the award-winning Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Nonprofit Communication for three semesters, starting as a videographer, then being hired as the assistant director for two semesters. This upcoming fall, she will work as the director. 

Outside of her roles at Loyola, Lily previously interned at WDSU, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans, as a marketing intern for Pythian Market and promotions intern for the Tulsa Drillers.