I'm obviously biased, but editors at small schools/newspapers often have to be well-rounded, resourceful and willing to take the initiative to make things happen.
Posts Tagged ‘ internships ’
Need Direction?
My friend/classmate/protege Kali Zigrino wrote today about her plans to apply for an internship for her final semester at college. Like many other journalism majors, she is concerned about her future job prospects in the industry. She writes: While I know I want to be a journalist; that is a relative term. I’m not sure if I want to write for magazine, newspaper, alternative press, blog, or just chalk my college education up as a loss and go work with my mother. She goes on to say that one goal of her internship is to gain a more specific direction, but I don’t think that a lack of specific direction is necessarily a negative. Journalists these days have to be more versatile than ever and be willing to take any job that comes along – regardless of it’s print, web, journalism, or technical writing. Maybe I’m biased, but I think that...
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