USA Today Launches New Travel Site
USA Today launched a new travel site today with detailed guides to popular vacation spots, as well as articles on maximizing your vacation experience (e.g. how to skip lines in Disneyland). For the U.S. travel section, USA Today has highlighted one of my articles as its featured piece. It's pretty exciting! Check it out: Insider Tips on a Hawaii Vacation by Joshua Duvauchelle
The Value of Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Internships
A few weeks ago, the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists announced the selections for its 2010 internships. University students and post-grad individuals will get to spend several intense months working as paid staff at some of the state's most respected institutions, including Hawaii Business Magazine and Alexander & Baldwin. Congratulations to this year's selections!
It reminds me of my hectic, stressful but immensely rewarding times as a 2007 SPJ intern and 2008 SPJ intern at Island Scene magazine and Honolulu magazine. The internships gave me opportunities to hone valuable skills like interviewing--it's one thing interviewing someone for a school paper, and quite another thing to do the same for an award-winning glossy magazine--and learn dozens of highly cryptic editing symbols. The immense portfolio I built during these internships were (and are) priceless. All the receptions and exclusive events I visited were just icing on the cake! If you've considered working with the SPJ, I strongly encourage you to do so. You won't regret it.
