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From focusing on the student government\u2019s call for pronouns on rosters<\/a> to messages for President-Elect Biden<\/a>, last semester\u2019s Neighborhood News (MEDPL377<\/a>) students didn\u2019t shy away from hot topics. The class published 34 articles about the Hunter community in The Athenian<\/a> during the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop-based production-style course builds students\u2019 skill set to prepare them for internships with professional news organizations. After learning about an opportunity to attend an Online News Association conference for free as a student from the class Slack channel, Rich Mendez met a MSNBC recruiter at a meet and greet and landed an paid spring internship with the news network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course prepared Mendez for the interview process through the line-by-line editing feedback provided by Prof. Katina Paron and its several \u201cwriting under deadline\u201d exercises. By focusing on audience-first stories that report the news in a concise and relevant manner, Prof. Paron said she hopes to build students\u2019 portfolio of published stories (or clips, in journalism parlance) and make them more attractive to paid-internship recruiters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neighborhood News\u2019 guest speakers address issues that matter to students most. Both Adrienne Shih, audience engagement editor at the LA Times, and Hanaa\u2019 Tameez, staff writer for Nieman Labs, shared their experiences with getting internships and dealing with being the only person of color in the newsroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tameez said the key is approaching networking not as a stepping stone to find your next job, but to use it as a way of finding friends and building a support system. She said, you want to meet people you can relate to and learn from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other piece of advice from Tameez, a CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism graduate: Be Googleable. Your future employer should be able to see your online presence on at least one platform. This includes Linkedin, Substack or a web portfolio, as well as social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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