Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About internships

Spartan Love

August 16, 2007 – 10:56 pm

Kyle Hansen is skipping town, headed for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to work with Rob Curley. The Spartan Daily’s loss is internology’s gain.

Intern season means intern blog season

July 10, 2007 – 7:08 am

As much as I might wish for a blog intern, I’m talking about interns at your newspapers with blogs of their own (not someone I hired to read my feeds and post wittier-than-thou Tweets for $10/hour).
Let’s start out at a major metro in the west, where an SJSU student on the sports copy desk is [...]

October is internship season

October 10, 2006 – 8:41 am

Yes, I know, it seems a bit early to be applying for next summer’s internships, but a lot of the applications are due on November 1st, and you really don’t want to start digging through old binders for that one great clip on Halloween while you’re trying to put your zombie makeup on.
Or maybe that’s [...]

Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.

July 5, 2006 – 8:11 pm

Daniel got roped into a bullshit internship program in Nepal, but instead of turning back, he just ditched said bullshitters and improvised himself some work.
In Kathmandu.
It does not appear to have been an easy or pleasant experience, but now he’s shooting for an NGO and making the best of his time there.
Word.
Follow Daniel’s photography at [...]