Experience Madrid, Spain – and publish a travel guide, with your byline on all your articles and photographs.
You pitch your ideas for travel articles – and we show you all the tools for success at Editorial Meetings, Travel Journalism Workshops, Travel Photography Workshops, Mentoring Sessions, and Feedback Sessions with Experts and Mentors.
At the end of the Journalism & Photography Internship Seminar, you’ll graduate with a Portfolio of Published Content, published in the news agency, a Travel Journalism & Photography Internship Certification, a Certification of Academic Credit, a Travel Journalism & Photography Seminar Certification, as well as a Letter of Recommendation of Merit, if applicable.
What’s included.
Travel Journalism & Photography Program with RGNN Experts and Mentors (see bios here).
Welcome Packet.
Orientation.
Editorial Meetings. Students pitch ideas for articles. Articles are assigned.
Group Mentoring Sessions, addressing the progress students have made on their articles.
Group Feedback Sessions. Students receive hands-on feedback on their articles.
Publishing Sessions. Learn how your articles are published at ROOSTERGNN Global News Network.
Publish your own Travel Magazine!
Each student will get to publish articles and photographs in the ROOSTERGNN travel magazine, published in digital format, with the student’s byline on all of his/her articles and photographs.
Travel Journalism & Photography Workshops. The Complete Travel Journalism Internship Seminar will address twenty-four (24) Workshops, of which two (2) Workshops will be held per week, four (4) Workshops per Two-Week Module.
The Workshops will address the following aspects of travel journalism:
Preparation and research
Writing
Editing
Photography
Video
Social media
Other useful travel journalism tools
Design & layout
Publication and possible markets
Professional development
Experts & Mentors. The Internship Seminar includes the collaboration of prestigious Experts and Mentors, see experts who have participated in previous RGNN programs here: http://rgnn.org/academy/experts-mentors. All Experts and Mentors will be confirmed in the Welcome Packets.
Cultural Immersion Program. Each week, a calendar of cultural events and site visits will be announced. Students can sign up on a voluntary basis to take advantage of getting to know Madrid, its surroundings and aspects of the Spanish culture in more detail.
Examples of past events: site visit to El Mundo, one of Spain’s most important daily newspapers, or site visit to Matadero Madrid, one of Madrid’s most innovative cultural centers – and a former slaughterhouse.
AVAILABLE DATES.
MODULE IV: Monday, July 17, 2017, to Friday, July 28, 2017. APPLICATIONS OPEN.
MODULE V: Monday, July 31, 2017, to Friday, August 11, 2017. APPLICATIONS OPEN.
MODULE VI: Monday, August 14, 2017, to Friday, August 25, 2017. APPLICATIONS OPEN.