The things I learned

What are three things you learned from your internship that you will be able to to use in your future career?

An internship experience is one where you take what you learn from the classroom and apply it to the real world. Unfortunately, when joining a broadcast station, I didn't know anything. At that point I had only taken one upper division journalism class, so my challenge was mostly to learn quickly. 

One of the more important things I learned is how a broadcast newsroom functions. The station can't report anything unless it has video, much online a print publication where pictures are good to have but not necessary. In this case, I have learned that broadcast reporting can be shallow at times. If you don't have the video to accompany the story, you cannot talk about it when you report.

Another thing I learned is that there is always drama within the newsroom. For example, if you are working in a top 5 market and are young, then you might find resistence with people working with you or under you. In other cases, people butt heads when each other and hold grudges against each other. Another example is if someone has a position(such as an anchor) and they are not very good at it, others will begin criticizing them. So even if things look calm on the surface, it is not always so.

The last thing I learned is that to be successful at an internship one must always find someone that you like to work with. The best thing I did was work extensively with one reporter.