College Candy (part 2)

Lauren from College Candy just sent me a message telling me to e-mail her my resume and some writing samples and then we can set up an interview. Needless to say I am super excited.

College Candy

I am an avid reader of College Candy; a website that talk about sex, fashion, dating, and college. Its a bit more authentic than other publications because some of the articles are written by college students as well as the three editors. I love it because most of the topics cover what every college girl encounters during the four or five years. Last week they sent out an e-mail saying that they are looking for a intern for the upcoming Fall semester. As soon as I read that I jumped at the chance, the time and location (Chelsea, NY) are perfect for me, not to mention that I could actually contribute, which is more than many internships offer. If I get this, next semester is going to be amazing.

Travelzoo.com

Someone I work with told me to try monster.com to look for summer internships. I tried it out and searched under "magazine internship" and one of the most interesting results that came up was Travelzoo.com. Travelzoo is a global Internet media company that specializes in publishing travel deals from around the world. As a traveler myself this defiantly peaked my interests. This summer they are looking for an intern in New York. I sent them an e-mail asking to get as much information as possible and what they we need from me. Even though it is not the ideal time for me, I am looking forward to what could happen. 

A Great Opportunity and Possible Internship

I was recently approached to work as a Merchandise person for Warped Tour for this coming summer. Along with selling merch for the bands I would also have to blog about each show and "twitter" about random things that happened. I had to send my resume in and if I do get this job I would go on tour for two months. I am so excited about this and I figured if I did get it I could talk to my advisor about making it a possible internship. Blogging and "twitter"-ing are the new press releases. Hopefully everything works out, and even if I can't use this as an internship it would still be an amazing opportunity.

New Internship Opportunities

I decided to explore other options for internships, so I sent out resumes to Seventeen Magazine, CosmoGIRL, Rolling Stone, and Alternative Press. Although a summer internship would be great I would rather have one during the Fall semester. I am waiting on their responses.

Outfoxed

Although this is my third time watching outfoxed, it is still an impactful and thought provoking movie.

It is so hard to be unbiased in the news world. First we are all human and we are biased by nature, second almost all news sources are funded by some big corporation or a bunch of small ones. The advertisers also have an indirect say as to what is reported and what isn't, those are known as gatekeepers. The gatekeepers are usually the editors or the someone around that status, and they decide what gets reported on and what doesn't. The gatekeepers usually have the advertisers in mind when they decide what is reported.

In Outfoxed we saw how Rupert Murdoch is the gatekeeper for Fox News and he sends out memos as to what gets reported and how it is portrayed. As an aspiring journalist this is extremely terrifying to me. I want to report the news as news, not as a version of it, but to get to a position to really make a change I know I will have to play the game for awhile. My only hope is that I don't get lost along the way.

The Internet needs Copy Editors

I, like almost everyone else, use facebook daily. One of the applications that facebook has is Bumper Stickers; which are cute little quotes or pictures with funny things on them to send to your friends or attach to your own profile. As I looked through the stickers I noticed more and more were grammatically incorrect or they had blatant spelling errors. I realized that not only did people not care about their lack of grammatical skills, they had no problem broadcasting them to the (facebook) world. I feel that now, more than ever there should be a call to action for copy editors to take on the Internet world with more force.

With slang and texting all these social networking sites allow this deterioration of the English language and I think that there should be some sort of policing before grammar is lost. I struggle with it, and I know how easy it is to slip into the informal world we have created for ourselves.