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Veteran Intern Offers Advice for Others

10/15/2012

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Journalism students at Marquette University and elsewhere are essentially running eight laps around the having-a-job-at-graduation track, with pit stops after the second, fourth and sixth intervals. The laps are, of course, semesters and the pit stops are summers between freshmen orientation and commencement. Any student serious about a career in journalism knows that newsroom internships are as important as campus media experience.

Marissa Evans, a senior in the Diederich College of Communication, has already interned on the metro or business desks at four newspapers: The Union-Tribune (San Diego), The Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Washington Post. To her credit, she has helped several of her friends and classmates by letting them know about opportunities and deadlines for internships and offering advice on cover letters and resumes.

Now, Evans, as they say, has gone national! The Poynter Institute on Friday published a wonderful and insightful article she wrote, "10 Steps Young Journalists Can Take to Get a Great Internship." The tips include starting to look now, sticking to the professional experience you want to have, keeping your (paid and unpaid) options open, having a Web presence (beyond social media) and, regardless of the outcome, find ways to practice journalism. I particularly like this tip: look locally and nationally. That may seem obvious to newsroom veterans and recruiters. But I am always surprised by the number of journalism students who are set on staying close to campus in the summer.

Actually, this is the second time a national journalism organization's website has published an article by Evans that offers advice for aspiring scribes. Check out "8 Reasons Student Journalists Should Consider Business Journalism" – she wrote it for the Reynolds Center (businessjournalism.org) in April.

Anyway, to those students and graduates still circling the track, I also recommend my blog post "Covering the Student Cover Letter," and these Poynter articles: Matt Thompson's "10 Ways to Make Your Journalism Job Application Better Than Anyone Else's" and Joe Grimm's "Your Job Application Shows Your Skills." Good luck.

Shout out to @marissaaevans on her first post for @poynter! Check it out, here: bit.ly/VZLQ1e

— MU Journalism Dept. (@mujournalism) October 12, 2012

@marissaaevans MARISSA YOU'RE ON POYNTER! Get it, girl!

— Kelsey Rolfe (@kelseypinkshoe) October 12, 2012

Check out the 10 steps @marissaaevans offers to young #journalists to get a great #internship: bit.ly/RCgcSd via @poynter. #YouGoGirl

— Erica Hernandez (@EricaAlyssa) October 14, 2012

Just turned in my #ChipsQuinnapplication! Thank you @marissaaevans for your @poynter article, it helped a lot in finalizing my submission.

— Amer Taleb (@taleb52) October 15, 2012
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