With my news internship with the ABC drawing to a close last Friday, I’ve had a few days to reflect on my experiences, and the year as a whole. Admittedly, at the end of last week, my head was starting to swim with doubts. Not because of the week I had with the ABC, it(…)

I have a confession to make. Sometimes, when I’m in the car and the news bulletin is drawing to a close, I’ll pretend I’m the journalist reading it. I don’t just imagine I’m sitting in the studio, covering off the day’s major stories. I actually speak to an invisible audience and sign off. “Melissa Archer, ABC(…)

Today was day one for my return to the ABC news radio team on the Gold Coast, and the timing was magic. Looking through the daily papers for stories to follow up, there on page 4 (or it could have been 6, or 8… one of the even pages anyway) of the Gold Coast Bully(…)

Where has the time gone? I know I haven’t blogged AT ALL about my internship, (barring one post!), but to be honest it has been a fairly full on two weeks and school and the ABC have had to take a backseat. During our break a very dear friend of mine passed away, and it(…)

Well, I wrote this about two weeks ago now and didn’t get around to posting it, so here it is now…update coming up! So I have been up since 4.30 this morning, and am slightly delirious as I write this post but I know if I don’t do it now I may never get around(…)