Journalism intern 101
Summer is here and you us college students that means visiting home, putting in extra hours at the part-time job, and catching up on sleep you missed due to bad time management. If you do not take time off then that means summer school to get your minor out of the way or partake in the beloved internship.
As soon as you set foot on campus, the importance of solid internships gets beaten into your brain as they are great on a resume, can build connections, and can even be for pay, but we never learned exactly what separates an average internship from a beneficial internship or even how to be a good intern. A lot of college students typically do not even know how many internships we need for an optimal résumé.
What specific …show more content…
“A minimum would be one for most fields but in journalism I think the bare minimum would be two,” said Renée Schafer Horton, University of Arizona Internship coordinator.
Horton has worked with the journalism program since 2001 as an academic-advisor so she knows all the qualities needed to succeed in this field. She believes that our generations, or “the millennials,” the nickname we are commonly referred as, gets an unfair label attached to them in the work area.
“Complaints about millennials are that they are viewed as entitled and lazy don not show up on time and do not show up professionally,” she said. “They (journalism interns in particular) Need to be tenacious professional and show up on time and look for a story instead of waiting for one to fall into their …show more content…
With that being said, taking summer classes or working appears to be a better idea as then you are least benefiting either academically or financially between the spring and fall rather than partaking in something that could hurt you after college. Paid interns earn almost $15,000 more a year than unpaid internships and the likelihood of your student debt also increases with an unpaid internship due to your graduation date stalling. If you plan on doing an unpaid internship, you had better be making a great investment on your future. Quite often, you may not be fairly compensated for your internship or job even if it is paid as it common to put in 50 hour work weeks but only get paidfor 40 in journalism and other
Summer is here and you us college students that means visiting home, putting in extra hours at the part-time job, and catching up on sleep you missed due to bad time management. If you do not take time off then that means summer school to get your minor out of the way or partake in the beloved internship.
As soon as you set foot on campus, the importance of solid internships gets beaten into your brain as they are great on a resume, can build connections, and can even be for pay, but we never learned exactly what separates an average internship from a beneficial internship or even how to be a good intern. A lot of college students typically do not even know how many internships we need for an optimal résumé.
What specific …show more content…
“A minimum would be one for most fields but in journalism I think the bare minimum would be two,” said Renée Schafer Horton, University of Arizona Internship coordinator.
Horton has worked with the journalism program since 2001 as an academic-advisor so she knows all the qualities needed to succeed in this field. She believes that our generations, or “the millennials,” the nickname we are commonly referred as, gets an unfair label attached to them in the work area.
“Complaints about millennials are that they are viewed as entitled and lazy don not show up on time and do not show up professionally,” she said. “They (journalism interns in particular) Need to be tenacious professional and show up on time and look for a story instead of waiting for one to fall into their …show more content…
With that being said, taking summer classes or working appears to be a better idea as then you are least benefiting either academically or financially between the spring and fall rather than partaking in something that could hurt you after college. Paid interns earn almost $15,000 more a year than unpaid internships and the likelihood of your student debt also increases with an unpaid internship due to your graduation date stalling. If you plan on doing an unpaid internship, you had better be making a great investment on your future. Quite often, you may not be fairly compensated for your internship or job even if it is paid as it common to put in 50 hour work weeks but only get paidfor 40 in journalism and other