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From The Editor
Come join our summer news team
Jacqueline Glosniak
jacqueline@winnetkacurrent.com
Since I was in elementary
school, I
knew that I wanted
to go into journalism.
In fifth grade, I wrote
an essay saying I wanted
to be a public speaker and
a news reporter. I believe
my reasons for both were
because I wanted to have
a public voice (I was very
much a chatterbox), I
hoped to share information,
both good and bad,
with the people who lived
around me, and because at
the age of 10, I very much
enjoyed coming in from
playing with the neighbors
in the alley and tuning in
to the evening news on
TV.
By later writing for my
junior high school newspaper,
leading the weekly
TV newscast at my high
school’s TV station and
majoring in journalism in
college, I hoped I was doing
everything to prepare
for a career in journalism.
However, while
classroom education and
loyola
From Page 28
Scapin, project manager at
Valenti and a 1998 Loyola
graduate, the first signs of
construction will be visible
in late May as the school
year draws to a close.
“We plan to complete
school-guided practice is
important (not to mention
necessary!) for a majority
of careers out there, nothing
even comes close to
actual real world, handson
experience.
In college, I planned
on working in television
news, either doing work
in front or behind the
camera, so I knew I had
to the most obvious thing
and apply for a TV news
internship. So, I sent my
resume to all the local
TV stations. Eventually, I
landed an internship with
ABC7, but to my surprise,
I was placed as an intern
for the station’s new
daytime entertainment
program, Windy City
Live. While not directly
in the newsroom, my time
spent as an intern with a
television station was definitely
a great way to show
me what the industry as a
whole was like.
Eventually, it actually
helped me make a few decisions
after graduation as
to where I wanted to work
after college. While I always
dreamed of working
in TV news, I ended up
really enjoying my time
as a local village newspaper
reporter during a
later internship during my
senior year and decided
that while I wanted to
stick with news, I thought
print media and hard news
would be a better fit for
the general site work,
which includes the reconfiguration
of the school’s
drop-off and pickup lanes
to ease traffic congestion,
new asphalt parking lots
with additional spaces,
new stormwater detention
systems and new campus
lighting and landscaping,”
me. Interning with local
celebrities was great, but I
realized I wanted to focus
in more on the issues that
really mattered to me and
my community — the
village board meetings,
the business that opened
up down the block, the
neighbor that makes a difference
every day.
If it weren’t for my time
serving as intern both in
TV and newspapers, I
would have never known
which I preferred. And,
if it weren’t for my time
interning and doing work
like I was not used to —
canvassing the streets of
a Chicago suburb looking
for the next unique story
to share, I would not have
had a clear picture that
hyperlocal news and print
media were important to
me.
Thus, the point of
my story is to share the
importance of internships.
While you’re studying
something you think you
like in the classroom, how
will you know for sure if
the job is one you want to
do unless you’re actually
out in the field doing the
job?
Every summer, our
news team here at 22nd
Century Media welcomes
interns on board from
May through August to
see close up what we do
as print journalists day
in and day out. I’ve met
he said.
Pool and piazza construction
will begin this
June with an anticipated
completion date in August
2019.
For more information
about Loyola campus enhancements,
visit
goramblers.com.
some really ambitious interns
in my time here, and
I’d like to continue seeing
who the rising journalists
in our area are.
If you or someone you
know is interested in
working as a news intern
for The Winnetka Current
this summer, please direct
resumes to my email,
jacqueline@winnetkacurrent.com.
go figure
An intriguing number from this week’s edition
5,000
The dollar amount a
Winnetka resident reported
stolen after someone
made unauthorized bank
transactions from their
hacked account. Read more
in Police Reports on Page 6.
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