{"id":1056,"date":"2008-06-25T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T06:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2008-06-25T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T06:28:37","slug":"interns-selecting-out-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/06\/interns-selecting-out-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Interns. Selecting out the news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>he <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tnr.com\/toc\/story.html?id=32c1f37c-587d-44c6-937c-fc392cdab6ff\" target=\"_blank\">New Republic<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on the problems of internship in<strong> journalism<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he internship culture &#8230; rewards young people who know exactly what they want to do and immediately begin strategizing about how to get there&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Selecting for such single-mindedness might make sense when seeking out, say, tomorrow&#8217;s astronauts or professional athletes. But is it sensible to, by default, select for those qualities in journalism, a field that requires its practitioners to observe and comment upon the world at large? Wouldn&#8217;t it make sense to do the exact opposite? That is, create incentives for people who have wider experience in the world?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a social good problem at play when news is delivered by people who harbor such similar ambitions and come from such similar backgrounds, people who have spent their summers in the same cities and have worked at the same types of organizations. Naturally, they are likely to keep spotting and writing about the same types of issues &#8211; and keep missing different ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Republic on the problems of internship in journalism: [T]he internship culture &#8230; rewards young people who know exactly what they want to do and immediately begin strategizing about how to get there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}