Newsday cuts internships?

Feel bad for those kids.

 

Par for the course for a newspaper that just raised the Sunday paper to $1.59. Why nine cents? Why cheat your circ numbers? Why sell shitty looking ads and sticky ads on the front of the paper and turn 1/3 of the Sunday scoreboard into a funky ad? Because it's a monopoly baby.

 

Doing those kids a favor by uninviting them from a toxic environment: any major metro newsroom these days.

This is like sending a message out to the missionaries that they'd better steer clear of the leper colony, because shit has really gotten bad. Newsday's good deed of '08!

 

Good Lord, where do you work?

 

Pick a newsroom, any newsroom.

Last year, at a going-away gathering for a sports intern, the kid admitted he/she was rattled by how dreary and skittish the atmosphere was.

If you're 21 years old, harbor dreams of practicing this craft at a major metro as a fulfilling (and long) career and then were plopped into most newspaper offices these days, you easily could second-guess your choice of major and livelihood.

Jamby, baby, did my post really come across as more cynical than this industry overall? I didn't think so.

 

I'm in the middle of a degree in something other than journalism. At the end of my last internship, my full-time colleagues told me, more-than-half-jokingly, to pursue that instead of this.

 

That's extremely interesting...I just got my rejection letter for Newsday's summer internship program, so I wouldn't know about the ones that were accepted. In the letter, though, it did mention several times about their internship program and how they did indeed hire people for the program.

 

This won't be the first time Newsday has gone internless during the summer. It also happened in the mid-90s.