Community
2 August, 2023
Work experience at the Weekly
CAMPERDOWN College Year 10 student Lily Maskell has spent this week with Western District Newspapers, gaining an insight in to how your local newspaper is produced.
Being in year 10, the opportunity of work experience had arrived upon me.
I had always found a great interest in writing/English all throughout school, so I knew that I wanted to do something to put this to practice.
I chose to do my work experience at Western District Newspapers for the week, and was excited to take as much out of it as possible.
During my first day I learnt how to write and edit an article, take different kinds of photos and held my first interview.
During the week I was fortunate enough to go out to places like Terang to watch and conduct interviews.
It was fun to see how these kinds of stories are made and develop my skills.
It has been interesting to see how this newspaper runs, more so than others, as it is a newspaper written for small areas. Living just out of Camperdown almost my whole life, I believe it’s important to represent smaller areas and to acknowledge the things happening in our community.
After interviewing some people, I have begun to realise just how much this means.
To see how local journalism is practiced in small towns has been very interesting.
More than anything I had been excited to work in this field for a week, as journalism is an area I might want to take up at University in Melbourne.
With only two and a half years left of high school, I am grateful to have this opportunity to hopefully help me decide my future plans for a career before I chose my VCE subjects for next year.
I am happy to be out of school and actually in a work environment, as it is hard to decide what career you want to do when you have not experienced it and what it is like.
I believe work experience is a great opportunity, one which I am grateful is offered to students.
I know I will take a lot of things out of it, that will help me in my future career whether that’s how an office works, different journalism skills or even just the timeline of a day at work.
I have enjoyed my time at Western District Newspapers and would recommend it to other students deciding where to do work experience in the future and have an interest in this area.
