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Hannah Styles, a senior communication student, spent her summer 2019 covering Washington Politics for One America News Network. Styles, who is concentrating in broadcasting with a minor in political science, obtained her internship though the National Journalism Center. Style\u2019s internship provided her with a lot of writing and interviewing opportunities and field experience. We asked Hannah some questions about her overall experience during her internship.<\/p>\n
Before the internship, communication students must complete a certain amount of credit hours within their concentration. How did these classes help prepare you for your internship? <\/strong><\/p>\n The classes that helped me the most during my internship were Writing for Broadcasting, News Reporting I, and TV Productions I. In Writing for Broadcasting and News Reporting, I learned how to create a lead, decipher what is \u201cnews worthy,\u201d and improve my writing for print and broadcasting. In TV Productions, I learned how to use Adobe Premiere Pro and basic camera equipment and microphones. This helped me with my internship this summer, because I had to find and pitch stories to my supervisor, write the script, record the voice-over and stand-up and occasionally was required to edit my own packages. It impressed my supervisors that I knew how to use Premiere Pro.<\/p>\n What was the most challenging aspects of your internship? <\/strong><\/p>\n The most challenging aspects of my internship was navigating the DC metro. Ha! For real though: I got the chance to interview Congressman Brady of Texas on the field at Nationals Stadium during the Congressional Baseball Game and I was so nervous my hands were shaking holding the microphone. So, I would say the most difficult part was interviewing people that made me nervous, like Congressmen, activists, and experts.<\/p>\n How did your internship help improve your studies at WCU? <\/strong><\/p>\n My internship improved my script writing, interviewing, on screen persona, and editing abilities.<\/p>\n What advice would you like to give students who are looking for an internship? <\/strong><\/p>\n Apply to a bunch of different places, anything that you are remotely interested in, and see what works out. I applied to over 15 places and thought that the internship that I got, was too out of reach and competitive, but ended up getting surprised in a good way. Just put yourself out there and see what happens, you never know.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hannah Styles, a senior communication student, spent her summer 2019 covering Washington Politics for One America News Network. Styles, who is concentrating in broadcasting with a minor in political science, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":13150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" [et_pb_section bb_built=\"1\"][et_pb_row][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[129,117,226],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student","tag-internship","tag-journalism","tag-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13177,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions\/13177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}