​A former Hearst intern has filed a lawsuit against the company in Manhattan's Federal District Court, with the intention of making it a class-action motion representing the "hundreds" of other unpaid interns still working for publications like Seventeen and Cosmo.

The intern in question, Xuedan Wang, worked at Harper's Bazaar from August 2010 to December 2011 after graduating from Ohio State University with a degree in strategic communications. She claims to have regularly worked 40-hour weeks for no pay and was in charge of several other unpaid interns.

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​Two interns are suing Fox Searchlight because as interns, they had to perform intern-like duties on the set of Black Swan. The poor dears had to do things like "preparing coffee for the production office, ensuring that the coffee pot was full, taking and distributing lunch orders for the production staff, taking out the trash and cleaning the office" -- otherwise known as "things that interns do" (except at the Voice, where our interns do real things, for what it's worth). Alex Footman, a 2009 Wesleyan graduate, and a bizarrely old (42) accounting intern named Eric Glatt are co-plaintiffs in a suit claiming that Fox Searchlight violated minimum wage and overtime laws. This certainly won't help their burgeoning film industry careers.

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​Earlier this month, a PR email was sent to bloggers to remind them that Mother's Day is all about taking "time to educate a woman you love about vaginal dryness and Replens!" Awkward. Who wrote that? PRNewser checked out the story and discovered that "an intern at the firm thought they could come up with a pitch that went 'beyond content for the newsletter.'" They gave the task of sending out their monthly memos to an intern? How could the vagina moistening company do something so stupid? Not so fast. This intern is absolutely brilliant.

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​I don't really like Charlie Sheen that much -- that's the first thing I have to admit. I applied to his internship because it was something funny to tweet about in the week that everybody seemed to go Sheen-crazy. Little did I know that I would make it to the second round of the competition to be his #TigerBloodIntern. When I filled out my resume for round two, I assumed they would disqualify me after they saw that I interned for the Village Voice, what with our Twitter campaign against Sheen and all. But I received an email soon after congratulating me on making it to round three. I was one of 250 people out of the initial 8,000 or so to make it. Oh, God -- they loved me!

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​​Today, I'm leaving New York for five months and embarking on a semester abroad. As such, I won't be able to write for Runnin' Scared anymore, or at least not till I'm back from Prague. So I just wanted to say: Bye for now, see you later, and thank you very much.

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​It's Friday, and we here at Runnin' Scared have an exciting, bittersweet staffing announcement to make to cap this week off with. One of our own is moving on.More >>

​Gotta love that Freedom of Information Act! The New York Times filed one to get the names of Mayor Bloomberg's interns, and when they got them, they wrote about who they are! And who are they?

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Hard at Work for a Corporate Lobbying Firm

​The Summer of Ass is real! And unpaid interns are riding the heels of it. The Baltimore Sun documented a new trend this week in the Greater Washington DC area -- interns in "scantily clad" clothing are running rampant in supposed "professional settings," putting off potential clients (maybe) and distracting everyone with their "Booty shorts. Thigh-grazing dresses. Flip-flops. Ripped jeans. Cleavage-baring tops. See-through skirts. Forgotten bras..." Well, we have some career suggestions for the so-called "skinterns" worldwide looking for employers who won't make them compromise their sense of style, even if "sense" isn't a part of it. It's all about finding the right fit for you.

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