<p>I'm currently a high school senior and I'm searching for possible journalism internships for this summer. I know it will be hard to find anything because I won't yet have any college education, but does anyone have any advice? </p>
<p>I do have some experience. Last summer I had an internship with my town's local newspaper. I worked 40 hours a week and wrote 2-3 stories a day (usually appearing on the front page). I also briefly worked for an alternative newsweekly. Wrote a pretty long story about homeschooling for the publication. I'm also the editor of the high school newspaper (obviously this won't be very impressive in the professional world..). </p>
<p>If I can't find anything else, I will probably work for the local paper again. However, I'd like to "move up" a little bit and work for a slightly bigger publication. </p>
<p>How can I find internships/jobs with the little experience I have? I appreciate any advice.</p>
<p>For your age, you have a lot of experience. More than me, and I'm a college sophomore. Start looking around at newspaper/magazine websites and see what types of internships they offer. Some of them offer specific internships for high school students, but you have to spend the time looking around.</p>
<p>Yes and No. It depends on how you tackle it. </p>
<p>If they have a website for their careers section, then you should go through that channel - not go into the office in person. They are busy with their own business... hiring is just another thing they have to do along with the work they have to finish. </p>
<p>I would give them a call to setup an appointment, if anything. That way you show you are polite and considerate of their time. Simply walking in at a random time during the day will not help you at all.</p>
<p>Last summer I had a similar internship at a small local newspaper, but got that after getting turned down by a much bigger newspaper in town. I gave both my portfolio and the bigger newspaper even took the time to write me back about 1000 word email basically saying they were impressed by my initiative but only take college students...</p>
<p>Hmm.. that seemed like something I'd like to apply for until I saw that it costs $800. It doesn't make sense to me to pay money to do an internship. Does this give you housing or something?</p>
<p>wwell, actually, the fee is about 5500$ for the 4-week prgram, and about 4000$ for the 3-week program
the 800$ you saw are the $800 deposit you have to make when applying</p>
<p>and yes this fee is for housing ( on the campus of UPenn), for ur transport to your internship that is located in philadelphia, for all on-campus meals, ... --> just read the online brochure for all the infos.</p>
<p>I found one internship to apply for so far, but I will be competing with college students and maybe even some graduates. Am I a strong enough applicant to even try? </p>
<p>How should I put together my resume, considering I don't have anything about college to put on it. I don't want to draw too much attention to the fact that I'll just have graduated high school, but I want to highlight my accomplishments. How do I strike a balance? </p>
<p>What should I include on the resume besides journalism-related things? </p>
<p>Hi blindkite,
I'm a high school but I'm interning with Seventeen magazine in the summer / will be their only full-time high school intern, so hopefully I can help you a little bit since we're both young. You're probably more interested in newspapers than magazines, but I suggest you send your resume to the editors/assistants if every department you're interested in -- you'll get a faster reply than Human Resources.</p>
<p>Hi blindkite,
Yep; you just send it directly to them. My Seventeen editor actually personally interviewed me and her assistants were the ones who scheduled the interview for me in the first place. I never have success with Human Resources.
I got my opportunity by emailing millions of editors and assistants and doing lots of freelance writing work that got me lot of published clips in print, and interning in PR and fashion design as background (just to help me before fashion magazine publishing). I'm only a high school junior, so I suppose that really stands out.</p>
<p>And btw, these corporations have really strict company policies about college/school credit -- even though all the other interns are in college and I'm in high school, I still have to get high school credit for my internship. So since you're graduating -- make sure your college will give you credit, otherwise they have to say no.</p>