If you can intern somewhere else, please do so. DO NOT join this program. It was a reality show, seriously disgusting. For starters, this program is an illusion. We were brought in as the best journalists in our class but we were treated like children. Lectures were on how to use our phones to film, editing on Premiere Pro, how to take good shots, etc. All things we already knew how to do as seniors. No hands on learning, no useful tools like how to use inews or other Adobe programs. There was no consistency and no drive from guest lectures to see us grow. We were assigned to create content for Univision markets and our performance would be graded on that except the majority of the markets did not give us assignments and when they did, it was busy work (if you even got that lucky). They did not care about our growth. Program leaders and professors would subtly pin us against each other to create content on our own except even when we did, our markets didn't want it neither did the Miami market. We would push social campaigns, come up with ways to bring our generation to our platform but no one cared about it. Instead, all of the work went into a tracker that was ultimately for show. Even our professor told us it was for show so that the programs creator would look good at the end for the donors and the heads of the company. Disgusting. The only thing I learned from this experience is what to expect from a toxic work culture in this industry. PLEASE if you can intern somewhere else do so, if you can write for the school's news platforms even better. THIS PROGRAM IS NOT WORTH IT.
