Internship is complete... but this blog is not.

So it has been an eventful last week of my internship, so it has proved difficult to be as up-to-date with my blog. This means that I will be spending a great deal of my down time to discuss the work that I was able to perform with The Cincinnati Enquirer. It has been an experience I am very grateful for because of the fact that I was able to get so much experience.

I went in to this internship with the idea that I would have the opportunity to get a lot of work experience, but I had no idea I would have these opportunities so quickly. From day one of my internship I was able to start producing videos on my own. I either produced or assisted in the production of over 30 videos. When I first began I thought that I would have to do a decent amount of grunt work such as making copies or logging video, but that was not the case. I truly was a member of The Cincinnati Enquirer. I was never looked at or treated as an intern. Instead, I was the new video producer.

The type of news stories I covered varied immensely. I went to crime scenes, animal shelters, Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds press conferences, a ski slope, the Ronald McDonald House and many other places. What I loved about my work was that it changed every day. That is what is so exciting about journalism. You can go into work with no idea what you will be doing. One day you can be at the court house covering a huge trial and the next you could be doing a feature story on poverty in the city.

There was a time when I felt that my skills in journalism only extended to my writing, but I have found that my creative juices flow to many other areas. I love being able to cover events with video because of the fact that I can tell the story in so many different ways. There is no set structure in video and the ways you put it together.

As the days go by, I will continue to update with more information about the internship I just completed with The Cincinnati Enquirer.