Try your hand at journalism by researching and writing articles for your school paper! What issues would you like to cover? 

Advice

Write for your school newspaper!

Search for internships at your favorite magazine or newspaper and contact them to find out more. Ask about the requirements and when to apply!

Career

Intern at a magazine or newspaper.

Find a local band or musician you like and contact them to request an informal interview. Prepare questions in advance, but be ready to have a conversation where you share about your interests, too!

Day to Day

Interview a local band or musician.

Editors

Plan, coordinate, or edit content of material for publication. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication. Includes technical editors.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Second Interest High-Point

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

First Interest High-Point

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Writers and Editors

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Media and Communication Workers

Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.

Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.

Allocate print space for story text, photos, and illustrations according to space parameters and copy significance, using knowledge of layout principles.

Plan the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.

Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.

Review and approve proofs submitted by composing room prior to publication production.

Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.

Oversee publication production, including artwork, layout, computer typesetting, and printing, ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget requirements.

Confer with management and editorial staff members regarding placement and emphasis of developing news stories.

Assign topics, events and stories to individual writers or reporters for coverage.

Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.

Monitor news-gathering operations to ensure utilization of all news sources, such as press releases, telephone contacts, radio, television, wire services, and other reporters.

Meet frequently with artists, typesetters, layout personnel, marketing directors, and production managers to discuss projects and resolve problems.

Supervise and coordinate work of reporters and other editors.

Make manuscript acceptance or revision recommendations to the publisher.

Select local, state, national, and international news items received from wire services, based on assessment of items' significance and interest value.

Interview and hire writers and reporters or negotiate contracts, royalties, and payments for authors or freelancers.

Direct the policies and departments of newspapers, magazines and other publishing establishments.

Read material to determine index items and arrange them alphabetically or topically, indicating page or chapter location.

Write text, such as stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.

Desktop computers

Digital still cameras

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Multi-line telephone systems

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Precision rulers

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Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Video editing equipment

Videoconferencing equipment

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects

Adobe Systems Adobe Captivate

Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Systems Adobe Flash

Adobe Systems Adobe FrameMaker

Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Systems Adobe InCopy

Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop

After the Deadline

Apple Final Cut Pro

Apple iWork Keynote

AutoCrit Editing Wizard

Avid Technology Media Composer

Cascading Style Sheets CSS

CCI Newsgate

Drupal

Editor Software Stylewriter

Elite Minds RightWriter

Extensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML

Extensible markup language XML

Facebook

File transfer protocol FTP software

FileMaker Pro

Google Analytics

Grammarly Editor

HP Autonomy TeamSite

Hypertext markup language HTML

LexisNexis

LinkedIn

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Word

myWriterTools

Orpheus Technology Pro Writing Aid

Polycom RealPresence

QuarkXPress

Style guide databases

Twitter

Web browser software

Web content management system CMS software

Whitesmoke

WordPress

YouTube

Senior Editor

<p>In Washington DC, Warren Brown, founder of the Cake Love Bakery, tells the Roadtrip Nation team about how he left his job as a lawyer to pursue his passion for baking. Also in DC they have the opportunity to interview Dr. Steven Rosenberg, a pioneer in cancer research. After DC the team heads to, New York City, where they interview David Fricke, music editor at Rolling Stone.</p>

Washington, D.C. - New York City

You were taking jobs that you weren't kind of in love with. your head that you're striving for? I realized that I liked writing a lot. people look back now and say, man, time to grow up in. at a point when The Beatles were actually think of as classics and talk about, The Beatles, and all of those business. are part of something special, and get out of convention. a hardworking dad and that I really wanted to be a part of. obsessed with music. station, just listening to music, nobody else could be bothered. I know I'm the only guy listening to me. because I wanted to do it and English with absolutely no idea which was a bit of a disappointment put me through college. was as a stock boy in an Army Navy store. writing for the local free newspaper. my first review. >> [LAUGH] being paid as a writer. >> [LAUGH] with my name on it, five bucks. even if I wasn't able, I had at least gotten that far. anyone who would publish me. how did you do what you did? how did you learn to write? journalism in some degree, and having this passion for writing, looking for a music critic or rock critic. I did the whole drill. said, your stuff doesn't measure up, a cannon ball in the gut. I wasn't that good. didn't think I was that good. I had written a review for in Philadelphia, a newspaper. and columns by the late Ralph Gleason, the magazine with Jan. really admired and looked up to. what I said in it was that when I grew up, little newspaper in Philadelphia, work as a publicist for Ralph Gleason's widow. kind about what you said about Ralph and I really appreciate it. always believed is, you have to be your own person. do what you wanna do. important thing to him. than the Washington Post rejection. told me that I was on the right course. how much money I made, or how little successful I might be, I was doing it for the right reasons. you know, that's been my ticket. I mean, we've been talking this whole these cliches our whole lives. be happy with your work. with their job, I guess. is that they're actually elementary abused, and they're so overused. I don't wanna >> [LAUGH] at this minute and man, I had a great time. have imagined when I was working at reviews for the school news paper. but couldn't actually imagine. actually came true, but I'm not done. you're not just going to be taking jobs >> And if you gotta, you know, you fund your road trip somewhere else. so I can go to Woodstock. 

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You know, I knew I wanted to be in music. I realized that I liked writing a lot. where people look back now and an amazing time grow up in. the Beatles were actually of as classics and talk about oh man, the Beatles and all this business. part of something special. to get out of convention. a hardworking Dad and I wanted to do something else and that I really wanted to be a part of. obsessed with music. 

Outside of Convention

I basically lived two lives in school. at the radio station. whenever nobody else could be bothered. I know I'm the only guy listening to me. I wanted to do it and absolutely no idea what I was going to do. I hadn't pursued any, which was a bit of because they put me through college. was as a stock boy in an Army/Navy store. to do some writing for a magazine called the Drummer. my first review, it was $5. remember this check as my first check for >> [LAUGH] on five bucks is burned there. if I wasn't going to succeed at it, anyone who would publish me. 

Paid For Writing

People will ask me, how did you do what you did? journalism to some degree and passion for writing that I was ready for that the Washington Post was looking for a letter, I did the whole drill and your stuff doesn't measure up, go away. it was like a cannonball in the gut. clear I wasn't that good. didn't think I was that good. for a magazine that I was working for it was a review of a book of articles and with Jann, very famous writer. looked up to and what I said in it was that when I grew up, in this little newspaper, in Philadelphia, as a publicist for Fantasy Records, Gleason, and she wrote me a letter. what you said about Ralph, and it was very the one thing that Ralph always believed you have to be your own person. do what you want to do, and the Washington Post rejection. told me that I was on the right course. I made, regardless of how successful might be, I was doing the right thing. 

Struggle

Be Your Own Person

Music had all of the things in it that I really wanted You know, I just became I graduated with a degree no idea what I was going to do. And the first job I got boy in an Army Navy store. to um...do some writing It was a magazine called And I remember for my first review was $5. I was like, "I wanna I wanna remember this check for being paid as a writer." kept writing for anyone And people, you know, do what you did?" You know, "Well how did you I said, "Well I write." and I do it." 

David Fricke

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