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Internship Applications: Students Getting it Right
I really liked Tai’s last entry and wanted to add some great examples of students getting it right when applying for internships (followed by my gut reaction when I read them): “I am fluent in Spanish and English, with some knowledge of Korean and Mandarin Chinese.” That’s just cool, no matter what you’re trying to [...]
Internships: Go Ahead, Take a Seat!
This is the room where news-gathering decisions are made – the desk where the morning and afternoon editorial meetings take place. To a college intern, it can be an especially intimidating room. Clearly, you don’t want to say the wrong thing in a room with the reporters, producers, photojournalists, and news managers that you hope [...]
First Jobs: Continuing Coverage
A newsroom discussion about continuing coverage the other day made me realize – that’s definitely something I didn’t learn in college. The ability to tell a story well, over a series of reports, as it develops, is a valuable and marketable skill. Tonight, I wrote updates on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the mass shooting [...]
Soundbites: One on one with Lindsey Davis…
Lindsey Davis is a graduate of the Washington State University Murrow School of Communications. Her first on-air job was in Lewiston, Idaho, where she worked as a news reporter and weather anchor. I worked with Lindsey during her internship at KOMO-TV in Seattle, and she stood out as a hard working, fast learner with tons [...]
Internships: “Can I Help?”
Intern: “Can I help you with something?” Like many producers and reporters, before answering that question, I instantly weigh how long it would take to teach the intern a certain task versus how long it would take me to do it myself. It’s unfair, but in a world of many looming deadlines, the bottom line [...]
Being Green-Take One : Your Guide to Getting an Internship (BiB ebooks)