{"id":35451,"date":"2016-08-24T03:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/blog\/reporting-across-the-world-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:36:12","slug":"reporting-across-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/blog\/reporting-across-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Across the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dream of becoming a foreign affairs reporter. I came to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">China<\/span> to get my first glimpse at what it is like to report in a country with a different language and different press regulations. My <span style=\"color: #ddc03e;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ddc03e;\" href=\"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/internships\/journalism-internships\/\">journalism<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> internship<\/span><\/span> at an online media publication, has given me the opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Every morning, I am tasked with reading Shanghai\u2019s newspapers to know what is going on in the city. I write short bites of major news stories and they are published at the end of the day to WeChat subscribers; Instead of having to read 5 different long news articles, subscribers can get a quick update. I also write articles and I research on the assigned topic, explore the city, and gain a new insight about <span style=\"color: #ddc03e;\"><a style=\"color: #ddc03e;\" href=\"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/programs\/shanghai-internships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shanghai<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>city life.<\/p>\n<p>This is the daily routine, but it is one that will get interrupted when there is breaking news. I was given the chance to report the explosion at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shairport.com\/pudongair.html\">Pudong International Airport<\/a>. It\u2019s one of those moments where I am so concentrated into the task at hand that I can forget about everything around me; It\u2019s the adrenaline to be the first to publish, but with a critical need to get every detail right.<\/p>\n<p>In journalism school, I learn the rules, the guidelines, the ethics, and practice my writing. It\u2019s putting these lessons into practice when I can start to learn about myself. I start becoming aware of my strengths and weaknesses. There is certainly one realization I can take from this internship. Writing about the explosion was one of those moments where I have no doubt that I want to pursue journalism.<\/p>\n<p>I want to report for an American audience and give insights about bits and pieces of the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em><strong>Shanghai taught me a valuable lesson though. I must really research, immerse and adapt in a country before I can begin to understand the culture and why things happen or don\u2019t happen. An open mentality can help me get there.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1520px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/3850360\/IMG_1978.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_1978\" width=\"1520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dream of becoming a foreign affairs reporter. I came to China to get my first glimpse at what it is like to report in a country with a different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-35451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35451"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=35451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}