Internships are a part and parcel of every student’s life. Unlike an internship with a multinational, doing a stint with a media house – print or broadcast – is an experience like nothing you can imagine. There have been rather extreme reactions from journalism students who have come back from an internship with a media [...]
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Continuing from where I left off in the last post…and especially since it struck a raw nerve with some anonymous persons… I just love to get under people’s skin, don’t I? We were at a dinner with friends a few days ago at the Boat Club, and one of them, told us about her daughter’s [...]
What goes around, comes around…
Posted: December 16, 2009 in internships, journalism, journalist, office politicsWhen I hear the whining that goes on about lousy internships, boring lectures, bad teachers etc etc. I wonder what these kids will do when they start to earn a salary and run into unsavoury situations, such as those that occur every other day at their workplace. What will they do when they run into [...]
Internships – the 'Hamletian' dilemma
Posted: December 6, 2009 in internships, journalism, Mass CommunicationTags: Ishrat Jahan, Maharashtra Herald, Pratibha Patil
I heard the other day that some students of an institute walked out of their internship, because they were not given a job that was more to their liking. One of my favourite students (yup even a cynic like me has a few!) asked me how I would rate students of the institute she was [...]
