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Hi everyone!
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My name is Nicholette Bentz.
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I’m a senior journalism
major and psychology
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minor here at Emerson, and I interned with the Boston Globe
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through their co-op program,
being a multimedia
platform editor.
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I heard about the co-op program
starting my freshman year
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when I worked at the Emerson College Journalism Department front desk,
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helping to write the Beat,
the newsletter that goes out
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each week for the journalism department.
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It was always the professors’ number one recommendation that we all apply.
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I had been to the Globe on a tour and I just thought that it was such
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an amazing opportunity
and newsroom to be a part of,
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and I really wanted to fulfill more print experience on my side,
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since I had gotten into WERS for radio and WEBN for broadcast news.
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So, I thought the Globe was a perfect six-month opportunity to really round out
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my experience in the print section so that I could really decide
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which direction I wanted to head into for my senior year,
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and then after college.
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While I was at the Globe as a co-op, I worked Mondays
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through Fridays, and they allowed us to be remote on Mondays and Fridays.
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So I was in the newsroom,
physically, Tuesdays
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through Thursdays, so I thought it was a great balance.
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I worked nights,
so I worked from 2:30 to 10:30.
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We would get an assignment of stories,
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an assignment list, probably 5 to 7 on average each night.
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I would go through and copyedit them for BostonGlobe.com.
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I would write the online headlines and then I would move it over to print,
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where I would write a print headline—that was always different—
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and then copyedit it one more time to fit into the print section
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and where it would fit on the page
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and then it would appear in
the paper the next morning.
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Definitely timeliness and
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time management first and foremost, but also the ability and willingness
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to speak to strangers and the people that you might not be too familiar with.
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Definitely holding a high level
of integrity for yourself and your work
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and how you portray yourself to
other people is a huge part of journalism.
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Each day is a new newspaper, new stories.
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You might not be on your A-game, but you have to be because the readers
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each morning expect the same exact results.
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So, remaining consistent and holding yourself to a high standard
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every single day to produce the best work possible, I think, is absolutely essential
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in succeeding in journalism.
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My biggest piece of advice
I have for other Emerson students
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who might be starting internships
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soon is not being afraid to use the opportunity as a networking tool.
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I still stay in touch with a bunch
of the people I worked with on the desk.
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My manager,
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they still have my resume.
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Really utilizing the time,
even if it’s not a full six months,
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getting your name different places and meeting as many people as possible.
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You’ll meet people that have connections either
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back to Emerson
or different schools in Boston.
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And it’s a small world.
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They’ll probably know people that you know or professors that you had no idea
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that they knew each other.
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So it’s always important to remember that you never know who you’re talking to
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and say yes to as many opportunities while
you’re in your internship as possible.
