Editor’s note: come back soon for a blog post with more details about my summer internship. And maps!
Who knew that someone like me, who was scrambling to find a summer job as my second year in college was speeding to a close, would end up snagging a job at the L.A. Daily News, the second largest newspaper in California behind the L.A. Times. Wow.
Let me just add a little backstory to this whole thing.
I try to be as organized and on top of things as I can. As a student journalist who aspires to be a reporter, I’ve been told countless times the importance of newsroom internship experience before graduating.
No serious news organization will hire a journalism grad with zero experience and past work to show – even if that person graduated with a 4.0 GPA and high honors.
I sent an application and resume to a local mid-size newspaper my freshman year knowing I didn’t have a real shot at getting the internship – even if I wrote for my university’s student newspaper. After all, most news organizations hire juniors-rising-seniors for their summer internship programs.
But as one of my advisers in the journalism department told me my freshman year, the most important thing was to get my name in – to let them know my name and who I am for future reference.
As predicted, I didn’t get the internship that summer. I ended up working for a great organization called the Northwest Leadership Foundation instead. Was it a journalism or news related job? No. Was I able to utilize my interests in writing and journalism for the internship anyway? Yes.
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