05/09/2010

Gap Year Media / Journalism Work Experience Abroad

Get hands on professional media and journalism gap year work experience overseas. If you're planning a gap year or career break and contemplating a career in journalism or radio, a work experience placement such as this could be just the thing you're looking for.

This type of work experience is a great way of enhancing your CV or resume and making you stand out from the crowd in this increasingly competitive world. By taking a gap year abroad to gain work experience in the media field, this will really help your resume / cv and put you above other people who have no experience.

A Radio or TV journalism placement will provide you with a host of broadcasting and production experience. Whatever media / journalism placement you choose, you will get an insight into the workings of the media in a new cultural and political setting. For most gap year journalism placements abroad, you will not need any foreign language ability, as the publications and stations generally write or speak in English.

Gap year volunteering and working overseas is a challenging yet wonderfully rewarding experience and this placement will give you excellent hands-on broadcasting and production experience. Whether you're starting out or taking a career break, this placement will broaden your horizons and give you experience of a new way of working in a different yet exciting culture where language is not a problem and the people are particularly friendly and welcoming.

Here are a selection of Media / Journalism gap year placements:

Africa-in-Focus offer premium overland travel & photographic opportunities throughout East & Southern Africa in more comfort with innovative facilities for the more inspired traveller.

Sunrise International offer internships in China. Finding newsworthy stories, attending press rounds, conducting interviews with distinguished visitors from abroad or local celebrities, or talking to everyday locals to ascertain their views on a range of subjects and then writing up and editing articles.

The Humanity Exchange offer a Women's Empowerment & Community Development program in Mexico. Marketing & Media Assistant Coordinator - This is a position associated with the marketing and media structure of PEACE on a large scale, and encompasses all programs. This position requires a knowledge of PEACE as an organization and the ability to write about one or all of the programs and the projects we are involved in at any given time.

Afreco offer a four-day wildlife photography course with professional wildlife photographer and field guide Sean Pattrick. This is an ideal pre-requisite to any safari trip as it teaches you how to get the most out of your camera during your stay in Africa. These trips are held in very comfortable camps with medium to luxury accommodation. The photography courses are aimed at the beginner, intermediate or the advanced photographer. We can even cater for professional photographers and assist in getting the perfect leopard or cheetah photo for example.

Travellers Worldwide offer the chance to gain worthwhile experience working in a fast-pace, professional environment with a suburban newspaper in Perth, Western Australia. You’ll undertake a number of tasks and generally be asked to help out in a number of areas, thus giving your placement wide variety and hopefully you can learn a great deal from the placement. You’ll work in a variety of roles at the newspaper depending on your ability as a journalist and you will be assigned various different tasks and jobs to undertake.

Projects-Abroad offer voluntary work experience internships overseas. You can choose to work on a print journalism placement - working with a newspaper or magazine - or on a broadcast placement, where you will work with a radio or TV station. On Print Journalism placements you not only get an insider's view of how publications are run, but you will also compile an impressive portfolio to take home with you at the end of your project.

With Subsaharan Adventures you can work as a journalist In Nairobi, Kenya. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for budding journalists of all ages and experiences. Sub Saharan is offering you the chance to work at one of Kenya's leading newspapers. There is so much to be gained by participating in a project like this. It will give you a great insight into how the country of Kenya operates and you will allow you to explore and root out stories the world wants to hear. Volunteers really get involved in this project and we have together seen some successful stories.

Global Volunteer Projects offer journalism programs: You might be a seasoned journalist looking for a new challenge, a media or gap year student hoping to get some useful and unique work experience or you might be someone looking to try out a new career path. We will tailor your placement according to your academic background, previous experience and language skills so we'll ask to see a short CV and some examples of your work.

Volunteering Solutions offer radio work experience in Ghana. This is a unique opportunity for its volunteers to do an internship at a FM Radio Channel in Ghana. As an intern you will get to experience a variety of roles at the station, including reading news on the air, researching news stories, interviewing newsmakers, producing segments, writing copy for the air, and attending press conferences.These internships are designed for journalism students and professionals to gain firsthand experience in journalism in Ghana. Partcipants in these programs will be required to submit their CVs for placement.

With WAVA you could work a newspaper in India as a volunteer will keep you busy and will allow you to gain valuable and international experience. Depending on your interests you can divide your time between reporting, where you will be creating and chasing stories for features, and editing, where you will be helping with the design and presentation of the paper. A real journalism experience at a newspaper in India.

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