Intern wanted. Skills required: audio, video and photo content gathering and editing skills; Final Cut/Soundtrack Pro; and just about all of Adobe Creative Suite 4.
It doesn’t matter if you post this list your bedroom wall, bathroom mirror or the car visor. The important thing is to learn each skill set.
Oh, and don’t forget to figure out how to write clean and engaging copy too.
If newspapers and wire services expect interns to step into the building with this knowledge, what does that mean for working journalists? What are the chances for moving to a bigger paper, better beat or management position?
Great if you get your floaties out and learn to swim, so to speak. Which is why, after seven years in a newsroom, I’m back in the classroom.
This, my reporting brethren, is journalism.
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