Have you ever considered coming to London from abroad or maybe even elsewhere in the UK to explore internship opportunities? Or maybe you’re already here living the city life working in another industry but dream of starting a new career path in journalism and media.
I have written before about the benefits of work experience which I am a strong advocate for, particularly while at college or university and making those critical decisions about your future career.
What is an internship?
Internships take work experience a step further, they last longer and fully immerse you (likely a student or graduate) into your chosen field of work as you learn the ropes of the job and gain knowledge about the industry and its key people. There may be a degree of tea making, but internships are treated as real jobs and therefore the expectation of you and your fellow interns is higher.
Having a good internship under your belt and listed on your CV can be worth its weight in gold, particularly if you’re ambitious and looking to fast track yourself into higher paid positions of employment quicker.
Internships also differ in their style of format, some are brand or company hosted, meaning that you go to work for an often large organisation in-house that funds their own internship program to attract the best (graduate) talent. Fabulous if you can snap up a lucrative place on one of these programs, but they are hugely competitive and often require a long and intense application process.
Journalism internships London
Alternatively you can opt for an internship that operates like a course, where your learning and work cover a number of companies and/or brands that you may later be employed by.
This is what Journalism internships London offers and while it is a paid for course, it offers a broader experience in journalism which at the beginning of your career, can support a better foundation of learning as you’re not constrained by one set of ideas and way to do things that an in-house internship program might do.
If the prospect of an internship wasn’t exciting enough, London is an amazing city, bustling with a diverse multi-cultured array of people, art, music, theater, and history, and a wealth of magnificent sightseeing to list just a few reasons to visit and study here; you would never be without things to do.
