Internship perception

I used to be really into this HBO series called The Newsroom. It was about a fictional nightly news network with Jeff Daniels as the leading role. I got most of my insight of how journalism works.

It may seem silly that most of my insights came from a TV show but I was quite surprised how accurate the show was compared to interning at The Times. The main difference between the show and interning are the deadlines. Of course the TV show would not show reporters trying to meet deadlines because it is not interesting for a TV show, but I have learned at The Times that deadlines are IMPORTANT. Reporters at The Times must publish an article everyday, luckily for us interns we only need to publish one or two articles a week.

Even though we only have to publish one or two articles a week it is still very time consuming for us because we do not have the same amount of time work on articles like the Full-time employees have, plus we do not have not gone off to journalism school to master the profession.

I feel if I try my best to manage my time well and think about everything that's going on around me, I would have more ideas for articles so I won't get the occasional blank white screen contemplating what I should write about.  

HMP Annotated Bibliography

Koile, Kevin. "High School Students Learn About The Journalism Industry." K2 Radio. K2 Radio, 5 Oct. 2015. Web. 06 Oct. 2015

More than 100 students from all around wyoming attended The State Press Association Journalism Convention. The students learned a wide array of topics from photography, interviewing techniques, and journalistic writing. This is important to them because they are in a such a small town that most of the time current events of what's going on don’t get around as well.

  While the students only went over some of the topics in one convention. At The TImes I am learning a wider array of topics and more in depth of each topic throughout the whole year. I can use these skills that I am learning not just for journalism, but for many other skills such as communication, writing, and people skills. I hope to use this article later to help compare my mentorship with what these students did at this convention.