So I know that interning or working for someone who is a bit far right or a bit far left is usually not good when it comes to news writing and working in the news business, but what about magazines. Does it help or hurt to work for a write/journalist or with a publication/company that is very specific or less mild when it comes to politics?
Anyone have good/bad experiences with that kind of stuff?
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you don’t mention what your career goals are. if your career goals involve “straight” journalism, then you might want to stay away from say, senator so and so’s campaign staff. on the other hand, if you get a research internship at a watchdog organization that involves a lot of investigative research, that could be something that a future newspaper employer might find compelling regardless of the political slant of the watchdog group.
on the other hand if you’re interested in working in political magazines in the longterm, there are few political magazines without some sort of slant. so if you are sure that you want to work with a left-leaning or right-leaning publication in the future, make sure to work with other publications that lean the same way in the meantime.
anyway, without having some more details about what your goals are and the internship that you’re afraid will jeopardize those goals it’s hard to give advice.
Journalists are writers.
Journalists are writers.
…but not all writers are
…but not all writers are journalists. That’s my point. Besides, not all journalists are writers and I don’t think anyone would consider Bill O’Reilly or Michael Moore journalists. The appearance of doing news isn’t journalism.
I think it depends on what
I think it depends on what your goals are. Do you want to be a journalist or a writer? If you want to be a journalist, then you have to be careful about entangling yourself with anything that may give the impression of political bias in the future. It may not affect your ability to be hired, but it could affect your credibility as a reporter. If you want to do celebrity profiles, then you probably won’t have much of a problem unless you once ran a “I Hate Angelina Jolie” blog.
Some news organizations have taken this seriously enough as to forbid reporters from donating money to political campaigns or candidates. Marching in a Greenpeace demonstration may not seem like a big deal until 5 years later when you write an article critical of the White House over environmental policy and some blogger digs up old Facebook photos of you marching with Greenpeace. Your article may have been well-researched and completely objective but people have a tendency to be irrational when they read things they don’t like and your story could be overshadowed by accusations that you had an agenda when you worked on it. Ask any journalist that has reported unpopular facts.
My advice, be careful. But that’s my personal opinion and others may disagree.
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It depends. What is your ultimate goal?
It depends upon how you feel
It depends upon how you feel about their political views. I once interned for an activist group that is not well liked by people on a certain extreme political side. It was also an organization that may or may not effect my career future, but either way I’m happy with it. I’ve had people express concern that putting that one position on my resume might put off a potential employer; but my strong feeling is that I wouldn’t want to work for a person who hires based on political ideals.
Basically, it shouldn’t matter, but that’s up to you; if you have reservations because they’re ideals don’t sync with your’s I would say don’t sell yourself out. But in this economy i think future employers will overlook many things.