Rob Curley puts out the seasonal call for interns in Las Vegas. Seriously recommended.
Tag: internships
Internship opportunity: Work with CICM to help push innovation in college media
Bryan Murley announces the CICM internship program:
“The pitch: How would you like to learn new media skills while having a positive impact on the college media environment? Join us for a semester of new media opportunity as the first intern for the Center for Innovation in College Media for Spring 2009.”
Sounds like a great opportunity to work on your Web production and development skills while helping out an organization that’s been pushing student media forward for years now.
Deadline to apply: January 18.
Spartan Love
News from San Jose State’s J-School:
- Kyle Hansen is skipping town, headed for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to work with Rob Curley. The Spartan Daily’s loss is internology’s gain.
- SJSU is hosting an NPPA Flying Short Course in October. Daniel Sato is furiously wrangling multimedia shooters behind the scenes to set up an awesome program.
- I take full
responsibilityblame for the completely inappropriate title on Daniel’s blog post that closes with the following incredibly intriguing announcement:
“The San Jose State photojournalism department will be holding multimedia workshops during the two summer sessions each year. Each session will be three weeks and will take place in a foreign country. The kicker, as if working on stories abroad was not enough, is that our school has two partners in this project. The Mercury News and National Geographic will each be sending either a photographer or an editor for one week to assist students as they learn multimedia storytelling techniques.”
Whoa.
The moral of the story: This is a really good time to be a J-School student at San Jose State University.*
*Disclaimer: I have every reason to be kissing up to certain faculty members right now, but really, I mean it!
Intern season means intern blog season
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 working hard to steer clear of the layoff downers and rants against ESPN. Her latest post weighs the pros and cons of a proposed switch off the slow-in-the-summer desk to the multimedia department:
“I don’t want to completely give up on the copy-editing because 1) that’s what got me here, 2) I feel like if I am going to put “Dow Jones intern” on my resume, I should have completed my internship as such, and 3) I am still attempting to get credit for this internship through the English department, and, while I know they would be willing to accept copy-editing experience, video-editing might not be so welcome.”
Hey C-Gull, go for it. The Dow Jones bit looks good on the resume, but trust me, “video editing” is a skill that far fewer job applicants have on their list. Do it. Tell Joe M. I sent you.
A little closer to home, The J Junkie, a Missouri J-School student interning at a small daily in the Bay Area, has also done a good job of dodging the downers and finding her voice. Check out her almost-a-manifesto rundown of her own news consumption habits:
“I typically get woken up by my cell phone beeping. That’s my weather forecast from the Columbia Missourian. As soon as I’ve regained sufficient consciousness, I listen to a couple podcasts as I get ready: always the New York Times’ front page by the fascinating voice of James Barron, and a few others depending on my mood. I check my e-mails and get daily newsletters from the New York Times and Le Monde….”
There’s more, of course.
And there are more intern blogs out there — share your favorites in the comments, and let’s get some of our friends in high places and glass offices paying attention to what their youngest (temporary) employees think of their newsrooms.
October is internship season
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 just me.
The JMC Jobs blog has a few interesting things listed, including well-paying 10-week gigs for the summer down in Tampa, which I can assure you is remarkably close to Busch Gardens, home of some seriously kick-ass roller coasters, among other things. The application for the Tampa Tribune is here (PDF).
If you’re serious about getting an internship next summer — and you should be — what you desperately need to do is show up at the CIIJ Journalism Job Fair at San Francisco State University on Tuesday, October 24th.
I went last year, and ended up landing a great internship which might have helped me land a great job. (More on that later today, maybe.)
If you go, be sure to dress for job interviews. They will actually not let you in if you show up in jeans and a t-shirt. Think about wearing a tie. Seriously.
Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.
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.
Ryan Sholin 