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Shrug
23:59 / 02.09.09
Despite...... vast empty forums and disenchanted wandering posters this is the best place on-line to ask.

I'm up for two magazine internships at the moment. One; gay orientated, the other, a weekly cultural entertainment guide of all that is hip.

I'm meeting with both editors formally quite soon and I'm looking for advice.

To be frank journalism isn't really the place I wanted to end up but I've contributed some pieces to college newspapers and journals that weren't completely execrable. How do I approach this? Do I write some new reviews / articles to show some fresher stuff (and stuff that I'll inevitably be more proud of) or re-adapt some academic that I'm much more content with into journalist-ese?

What I did write for student newspapers doesn't have much heft and when I did put it in it was immediately edited out with added spelling mistakes so that's really the last thing I want to proffer to a potential employer.

Advice would be welcome, the trajectory of how I approach these things always seems a bit skewed.

Oh. Film is what I'd be talking about.
 
 
grant
14:44 / 04.09.09
As an intern, it seems unlikely you'd be called upon to do any actual writing unless some sort of crisis breaks out.

You'd probably be doing filing, organizing, copying and possibly some kind of billing data entry (at least you would around here). You might do proofreading or some kind of research too, maybe.

You can bring in some writing samples, but don't be crushed if the editor doesn't look at them while you're there.
 
 
Shrug
21:21 / 04.09.09
Hmmm... well it being Dublin... and the magazines being one a community based although widely proliferated supplement... I may be in time.

And as for the other... if it works out... I'll be writing film review...

They aren't money jobs but I'll gain a lot of experience... and I vaguely know the editors of each.

Things are less cut and dry over here, I think.
 
  
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