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It was the latter for Alison Greenberg, who tells Matthew Claudel that an internship “is often nothing more than free work for a company so you can put a line in your resume.” After leaving Philadelphia Magazine, she started a blog called “The Ex-Intern: Sticking it to The Man (who never even paid me).”
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