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media researcher
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Hi there I wish to become a media researcher and wondered whether I should do a practical or not at all. Whats the pros and cons of not doing and doing? please help me love Jacaranda
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sorry, just seems an awful lot of threads are getting put in the wrong place just recently.
anyway, back to the subject. That's an area I'm kind of interested in too. But seeing as I have no professional experience in the world of media, bar writing for the student paper, I don't think I'll get a job
Why not write to the different media companies and ask what they're looking for?
Also, you could check out www.prospects.ac.uk as they give really good information on all sorts of careers
If you have, then go for it, obviously.
If not, then do some research, see what is on offer - but I'd say if you get the chance to do one it can only help
Good luck anyway!
Therefore will have to drop a careers module and news module
ah, I see - I didn't realise it would be instead of doing something else.
Are you at uni now?
Thanks for the advice on the websites I'll go take a look:)
Maybe you could look into doing a summer internship next summer, or even a year in industry before your final year. I'm sure your uni has loads of info on this.
And like Diamond said, have a look on the BBC website for work experience.
Work experience with the BBC
I wish I had looked into this a bit more while I still had the chance!
as your statement 'I wish I had looked into this a bit more while I still had the chance' has drawn up curiosity inside me:)
Try looking in the newspaper for the Television Industry "Broadcast" you might find some stuff in there about researchers.Phone up companys and ask them what they look for in a researcher.
Another useful site is mediaguardian.co.uk
Good luck:)
If its the latter then you will probably find theres a huge amount of competition so the more work placements you can get the better.
Researchers can fall into two catagories...those who specialise in a certain field of knowledge and so work in education programmes, history programmes, sport programmes etc but rarely cross over to cover all areas...OR those who work in,, for example radio where there may be lots of different types of research required from finding contributors for programmes to thinking of stories to cover.
Also...often researchers jobs are only short term contracts, there are very few full time researchers working in the BBC for example, but instead each programme will advertise for a researcher for each project that comes up...usually the ones with more experience, knowledge of the legal minefield attached to broadcasting and good research skills will get the jobs.
The best advice I can give is do as much work experience as you can, get some radio production experience...radio is a great place to start.