Online Internship

Online Internship Experience brings great opportunities!
By Jessica Durnaste
 
I really wanted to become a journalist when I was younger so I found myself working harder each day to try and achieve this. One day I made it easier for myself when I came across some online internships for journalism jobs. The best part about this was that it would be writing about different Universities in Australia for International Students. This was easy for me as I had actually been to several universities across Australia so I could give some detailed and personal experiences from each of these! The best part about all this was the fact that I would actually be getting paid for it as well!
 
Given my personal experiences at the universities I started by writing a few personal experiences from my time at each one I went too. This gave the readers a bit of a chance to read from a student's point of view, and not have to deal with all the irrelevant chatter that the universities would put on their own sites. I then did a bit of further research into some of the other activities that were available at the universities as well as trying to find out as much student information that would be useful to prospective students in the future. I did a lot of ringing around and emailing to really knuckle down on this, but it did pay off after a while!
 
You can find some jobs online for journalism internships that will pay you and others that won't. It's all really a matter of doing the research and really trying to find out what you want too and knuckling down on getting involved. I would never discount the importance of experience, so even if you can only find unpaid jobs then you should give them a go. I was definitely lucky to get a paid one but I'm sure you can find one that will be best suited to what you are after in a journalism internship job,