El Campo, Texas, Wynne, Arkansas, Huntington WV, even Cedar Rapids, IA\u2026small newspapers \u00a0needing writers, stations looking for sports reporters, local viewers looking for the next Chris Berman or Suzy Kolber\u2026Talk to every anchor, producer, writer and you find a story of humble beginnings, of small towns, long shifts and not so much money\u2026Everyone has a story and each one is usually more fascinating than the next\u2026<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get something out of the way, right up front\u2026your dream job exists!\u2026whether it\u2019s in the aforementioned cities or in White River Junction, Vermont, don\u2019t be deterred from going after it\u2026Sites like TVJobs.com<\/a> and Medialine.com<\/a> exist to start the process\u2026these are real jobs in real places\u2026.<\/p>\n But these sites are just one of the ways to start the process\u2026Morry Levine<\/a> , of Comcastsportsnet New England, visited the Boston University Sports Journalism seminar series recently and remembered how he did it the old fashioned way\u2026\u201dEven if you don\u2019t know anyone, cold call areas that you want to be in and say \u2018I\u2019m gonna be in the area, can i stop by, can I have two minutes of your time and there are people who are going to give you their time.\u201d<\/p>\n Both Levine and Michael McDermott<\/a>, Sports Editor of the Providence Journal agree that getting a recommendation for a job is perhaps the most important door opener and that\u2019s where leaving a positive impression during your internship can be key\u2026<\/p>\n And as scary as leaving the college womb can be, understand you have skills that employers need\u2026McDermott put it this way, \u201cYou guys come into it with an advantage of knowing that you\u2019re going to have to be flexible. \u00a0I\u2019m looking for someone who\u2019s competent, passionate but also collaborative as well.\u201d \u00a0You can do this\u2026Now get out there and let the journey begin\u2026The Atascadero<\/a> News and (station) KAWE<\/a>, Bemidji, Minnesota is waiting for your call\u2026.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El Campo, Texas, Wynne, Arkansas, Huntington WV, even Cedar Rapids, IA\u2026small newspapers \u00a0needing writers, stations looking for sports reporters, local viewers looking for the next Chris Berman or Suzy Kolber\u2026Talk to every anchor, producer, writer and you find a story of humble beginnings, of small towns, long shifts and not so much money\u2026Everyone has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}