Well my first week of the internships at Quest Newspapers, Bowen Hills, have been completed…..and what have I learned….This week was meant to happen…. You ask why? Well it has allowed me to realise that doing my internship up at Caboolture and doing this one here (even though it is Quest) is vastly different. At(…)

I arrived at Bundaberg Regional Airport at 09.50am on Sunday morning as scheduled. The memo must have not gone out because there was no paparazzi there to greet me. Oh well. Since there is no public transport on weekends I took a taxi into the city. The taxi driver was as excited about my internship(…)

Okay this will be short because I unwittingly allowed it to slip my mind. So I am going to be writing a column. But not just any column. I will be making a social critique on my most cherished of books. It was inspired by my flight over, when I was stuck between two women(…)

Upon arrival I was greeted by the lovely Emma McBryde and her fiancee Juan (honestly can’t remember his last name :S). I am lucky enough to not have to pay for accomodation during my stay in Rockhampton. They provided me with my own room which has been great. Having arrived on father’s day I was(…)

Well, did I say yesterday that today would be another day and therefore a new story? I was wrong… Indeed, I was literally glued to my chair, struggling to translate 600 words from French to English but also answering question to the editor who wanted some clarification. I had a break of 20 minutes for(…)

Today John mourned the loss of a former QT journalist to the ‘dark side’ of PR. (I heard Darth Vader and the imperial forces offered more money and advancement.) I recall a recent article in The Australian which stated there were about 19,000 journalists to 16,000 PR officers. It’s time to run the numbers again.(…)

What an interesting time to be a journalist in a Fairfax newsroom! My week at The Age has been different to say the last and it couldn’t contrast more to the small country newsroom I was in during June. Day 1 began with a tour of the two floors of the seven floor building that(…)

The first three days of my internship have gone flying along so I’ve forgotten to check in. I was originally assigned to property at the Courier Mail but on the first day me and another intern from QUT were sent over to property at Quest instead. This turned out to be a really good thing(…)

My second day was pretty much as my first day expect that… Well, yesterday at least I went out and I ate ice cream! No seriously, I stayed all day long in front of my computer and my laptop (yes I have so much story (the “y” is on purpose) that I need 2 computers).(…)

Yes, here we go AGAIN! The second round of internships have started and I am placed at Bowen Hills for the Quest Newspapers working on the Westside News and South-West News. It is exciting and terrifying at the same time, because I had arrived at the building where I can see my future….but I can(…)

Day two on the sports desk at the Courier. Wow. The stereotypes have well and truly been fulfilled. Not quite to the same extent as the Will Ferrel Movie ‘Anchorman’ but you get my point. Males out number and sport talk is high on the agenda. All of these journos are absolute experts in their(…)