‘The Power of Radio’ Has a Passionate Ally in 2019 Peter Gzowski Intern
Angelica Cooper eager to lend her voice and skills to her ‘dream job’ with CBC Radio
Wherever Angelica Cooper’s passion and love of “the power of radio” takes her, one can bet that she will experience over four months beginning in early May will figure prominently in what lies ahead.
A Trent History and Indigenous Studies double major student, Ms. Cooper has been selected for the 2019 Peter Gzowski Internship at CBC Radio in Toronto.
Over the course of the summer, she will gain first-hand radio programming experience as well as “learn the craft of making great radio” as one of just four final-year university students from across Canada granted the paid internship.
“I could not have done this without the wonderful folks behind Trent Radio,” says Ms. Cooper, who has volunteered with the University-affiliated radio station since 2016. “The human connection radio provides is unlike any other journalistic medium. Understanding people purely through their voice while expressing opinion and having an open dialogue with others across barriers is understated. I look forward to being in the thick of new thinkers, surrounded by individuals who are creatively and dynamically working towards producing the best possible news stories. And I’m eager to meet the faces behind the voices I have listened to since I was a child.”
After Trent and with this internship under her belt, Ms. Cooper has ambitions to pursue a future career in radio broadcasting, preferably with CBC.
“When I first put on a pair of headphones, turned up the microphone and saw the red ‘live’ light on, I knew this was the life for me,” she says. “I found the voice and confidence I had been looking for in other areas of my life.”