Today a piece of ground beef gave me first test in Journalism ethics.
For a multimedia package I was working on about restaurants, a partner and I filmed the chef of a local restaurant making some monkfish (“a poor man’s lobster”). Afterward, at the very same place, I ordered a cheeseburger. When it came time to [...]
Category Archives: Internship
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Jul
14
14
The most expensive cheeseburger
Mon
Jul
02
02
The internship that wasn’t
It all sounded so cool.
This June, I, along with 3 other interns, were invited to devolep a youth-driven Web site for Delawareonline.
My fellow interns and I did market research, scouted the competition, and developed a new way of delivering news that we felt would really click with the media savvy youth of America.
But instead of [...]
Sun
Jun
24
24
Do newspapers want a bright future? Pay your interns!
I remember after my sophomore year of college I began to search the local Philadelphia media market for internships that paid. Inquirer? Nope. Courier-post? Nope again. Philadelphia Magazine? Still Nope. Metro? Yeah right.
To my frustration there was no local internship that paid the bills. Speaking with some journalism students from other areas of the country [...]
Fri
Jun
15
15
Liveblogging Wizard World East
I’ll be conducted my first assignment live blogging Wizard World East from Philadelphia for delawareonline.com.
Ill be posting videos and photos as the day rolls on. Check the Panel to Panel blog to see what I am up to.
Thu
Jun
07
07
5 lessons learned in my first week in a real newsroom
Now that my first week is nearly up at my internship, I can say that my mind has been blown in more than one way. Some random observations:
Its tough. I know some of you that already may be working in a newsroom may be thinking “dumb whippersnapper finally gets it”. But I’m more referring to [...]