Black & White Writing Not For Me
I have wanted to work in the media field for a long time now, but it wasn’t until I spent a day on the job that I realized which type of journalism appealed to me. During my senior year of high school, I was afforded the opportunity to work side-by-side with reporters at a major Florida newspaper. Though my mini [and I do mean MINI] internship lasted a mere eight hours, the day was more than enough for me to see that news journalism was not my cup of tea.
The experience was invaluable because it taught me quite quickly that I wanted to focus my studies at the collegiate level on magazine journalism. I found that my love for adjectives and thorough description are not welcome in the black-and-white world of newspaper. Instead, creative writing is best left to the columnists at glossy magazines.
I’m very excited for the coming semester, because the mass communications program at the University of South Florida offers students the experience to intern for class credit. Those months will hopefully cement my future within the journalism field and I am definitely looking forward to making connections and learning the basics of real-world journalism. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes as long as you promise to look for my byline in the latest issue of Cosmopolitan in a couple of years!
Labels: dream job, internships
Posted by Amanda on 10/03/2008 12:26:00 PM
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I know what you mean about how a mini internship can really give you a taste of the "real world" I had the opportunity to work at a television news station during local election returns. I thought it was going to be so cool, exciting and glamorous-- where basically I sat at a high school in the Florida heat while we talked to people as they came out of the polls. We were there all day-- and I just had to make sure we got their name right. One of the most boring days of my life... And I can't say the reporter or camera crew had that much fun either
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