09/04/2011

Journalism Gap Year Work Experience Abroad

Take a gap year and gain media / journalism voluntary work experience abroad. Are you a budding journalist? Keen to give your CV a boost? After some truly exceptional work-experience? Projects Abroad may have just the thing for you.

Gap Year Print Journalism

Projects Abroad can place you in any number of publications in both magazine and newspaper journalism. In Ghana we work in national press and in Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Togo in local and provincial press. We run a number of our own publications in various destinations which allow you the opportunity to get involved in editing, writing and publishing the newspaper or magazine that you work on.

Gap Year Broadcast Journalism

If you have ambitions in gaining experience in the world of broadcast journalism, then you may be interested in travelling to Costa Rica, Ghana or even Mongolia. We work on community television channels where you can gain experience in script writing, editing, producing and presenting.

In Ghana, Projects Abroad also place gap year interns at a radio placement. You can work at a community station where many past interns have found themselves presenting on the air contributing to the station's production.

What the Gap Year Interns said...

"During my time I interviewed Ghana's Olympic Committee and met the head coach of Accra's football team. Atlantic FM was very different to this, rather than going out every day I was always working at the station. I met some fantastic people including the stations top DJ's and by the end of my placement I was co-hosting 'Drive Time', the most listened to programme in western Ghana."
(Steven Poulton, Radio Journalism in Ghana)

"Being on a journalism placement...we were able to film in the press pit and exchange stories with other foreign journalists. It was great to see how other TV stations worked in a third world country and surprisingly, how technologically advanced they are. The crew [were]there at most major events."
(Sarah Rajabalee - TV Journalism in Mongolia)

"For the first few weeks I was shadowing other reporters and later I was given the opportunity to conduct interviews myself and write my own articles. I didn't have any experience of journalism...I had several small articles published and was lucky enough to have a front page story published along with subsequent follow-up stories."
(Jennifer Clack - Print Journalism in South Africa)

To apply for a Journalism placement or to find out more, call one of Projects Abroad programme advisors on 01903 708 300 or email Koreen on info@projects-abroad.co.uk.


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