Virtual Internship Experience at a Local TV Station

Hi, This is nathawriter.

To share with you guys, I've always wanted to work on a television station since I was a highschool student. Perhaps it is for this reason that I chose mass communication as my course in college although I am not that really good in speaking or even in writing.

After 3 years in the media-communication program, its time for us seniors to take our internship. Because of the current situation brought by the pandemic, virtual internship was the only option for us to complete the internship course subject. I started applying to several media related company last year of October. Despite the fact that some companies had already accepted my application, I still chose to participate in a virtual television internship.

Before the start of my internship, I had an orientation with the company and the department to which I had been assigned where we discussed the responsibilities I'd be doing.

I officially began the 200 hours of work I need to render with the company on November 25th.

The first task I received was to transcribe an interview for a specific episode of a program. I completed the specified task provided to me after 8 hours of work.

On the 29th of November, the internship's second week began. The task assigned to me was to carry out research materials where I needed to browse articles about human rights and violations of human rights.

Also, I was assigned to transcribe two interviews. The continuation of the transcription happened on the following days.

On the 8th of December, I was given the task of researching materials for Manny Pacquiao Candidacy Episode. I looked for articles related to his past issues and presidential campaign. After the production of the aforementioned episode, I was asked to transcribe the interview.

I spent my work hours leading up to the Christmas break assisting CLTV36's social media marketing team. The task was to encode the personal information of text viewers for the Giant Lantern Festival 2021 viewers' choice text promo. Because there were two batches, it took me two days to do this task.

After the christmas break, I continued the third batch of the task given to me before the said break.

Despite the fact that the New Year has arrived, I still have 30 hours left to complete my internship. I assisted the social media marketing team in encoding the details up until the next day.

I just signed in for attendance on my last day because there were no tasks assigned to the interns.

Overall, I am glad to be part of the internship offered by the tv station.

Dreams really do come true.