The Boca Raton Tribune internship program has been one of the highlights of many high school and college students looking to get their foot in the door of the journalism world.
The Tribune’s internship program has around 10 interns per semester that learn every aspect of the newspaper business, from website, to print. From the moment they step in the door, these interns realize that they are not in their average internship where they fetch coffee or wash the company car.
On their first day on the job they begin pitching story ideas to the newsroom, and by their second week they are writing their stories they pitched. Not only that, but the interns get thrown in the biggest community stories in Boca Raton, and grow into finding their own voice.
The Boca Raton Tribune encourages young journalists to find what they are passionate about and help groom them into the amazing journalists that will be part of the workforce someday.
One former intern, Megan Shea, from Boca Raton Community High School, took her love for entertainment news and ran with it.
So much so, that this year, the recent High School graduate was awarded First Place in Entertainment Writing at the Palm Beach Post’s annual High School Journalism Awards, which are held every year to honor the county’s best high school newspapers and journalists.
“I’m incredibly honored to be recognized by such an established and respected publication,” says Shea. “I’m very fortunate to have the platform and freedom the Tribune has provided me in writing entertainment pieces.”
While Shea continues to be a contributor to The Boca Raton Tribune in her column, “Wait, What?”, she will now move to Gainsville to attend The University of Florida and pursue a degree in Journalism.