How lower-income Americans are shut out of journalism — MSNBC
According to MSNBC’s Ned Resnikoff, systematic usage of paid internships disproportionately shuts out working-class and lower-middle-class writers from journalism careers. Do you agree?
According to MSNBC’s Ned Resnikoff, systematic usage of paid internships disproportionately shuts out working-class and lower-middle-class writers from journalism careers. Do you agree?
Food for thought.
and of course I would fit the description of poor and black journalism major
More key points on the problem of access to journalism as a career.
Yeah. I was offered an internship at a magazine I’d absolutely love to work for, but it’s unpaid and would have required...
I’ve done 3 unpaid journalism internships, 2 paid politics internships (one at the same time I was doing a j-internship....
Newspapers may offer paid internships, but many students also have to take extra jobs on the side to make the income...
Also, I’d specify unpaid internships, and the fact that most places WILL NOT offer you an internship in the first place...