A second Christmas for delivery drivers
- Advanced Reporting
- April 28, 2020
By Wilko Martínez-Cachero Vas Interning at WSHU Public Radio during my fall semester was a demanding but equally gratifying experience. I had taken JRN 393 the semester prior to starting at WSHU, but that only taught me the basics about audio journalism. Yet, that’s not what I initially thought coming into WSHU. I thought the
READ MOREBy Charles Scott This summer, I wrote for the Smithtown News. I spent six weeks building banks of information and contacts, awkwardly finding spots suitable for note-taking in busy press conferences and protests, and writing a mix of joyously reported stories, drawn-out research pieces and punched-up press releases. I took on almost a dozen stories,
READ MOREBy Felicia LaLomia Last December, when I wrote emails to about 20 different food and drink-focused publications asking for internships, I had no idea what would come of it. Sending the email equivalent of a cold-call blindly into the internet, I set my expectations low. There was no incentive for any of these editors to
READ MOREBy Gary Ghayrat When I started interning at The Southampton Press, the first thing I noticed was the size of the place. Twenty or so people worked inside a one-story building. And just a 10-minute drive away was the so-called “Billionaire’s Lane” of the Hamptons, with lavish properties that are easily double, even triple, the
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