Q. I recently decided for sure that broadcast journalism is what I want to do with my life!! I am still in
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community college, but getting ready to transfer to a great broadcast school. Is there anything that I should absolutely be doing now to ensure internships and future jobs?
Thanks!
S. LaneA. What are you waiting for? If you want an internship later, get busy now.
Any kind of journalism will be a step in the right direction.
Write for a campus paper or a local one. Get into a campus or community radio station and try being on air or producing. Augment that -- but don't replace it -- by experimenting on your own with sound
editing programs like Audacity (free) or video editing programs like iMovie, Final Cut or Avid. Media convergence means that all media are embracing all other media so that the newspaper reporter shoots video, the TV journalist writes for a Web site and the Web journalist uploads sound files.
Do not wait until you are in a four-year program before you start trying to get some experience in the business. Apply now and offer to do whatever they need. Then watch everything that goes on around you.
Joe on internships:
"Breaking In: The JobsPage.com Guide to Newspaper Internships."
Coming Monday: This journalist, who went from a newspaper to a medical trade publication wants to come back to a news Web site, but feels blocked from getting experience.
