Where should I do my work experience?

The assholes = media people.

Try catering.

Hello! People! Suzy, Anna, Sinkah, Stevie, Stelfox, etc. to thread please! This is a serious question.

Catty is an IRL friend, and she keeps asking me, and I'm all "I don't know! I don't know anything about journalism, I just know journalists!" So I suggested she ask here. Please don't make me look like an even bigger ass by not be as helpful as I know you can be.

Sigh, then again, what the heck would an actual journalist be doing away at this time on a Saturday morning? What the heck am I doing away this time on a Saturday morning? Oh yeah, waiting for TOTP to see if they show any of The Cute One on part three of the Busted section... ho hum, ::yawn::

News paper, based on nothing but the feeling that newspapers are way more enduring than magazines.

Well, she was talking about trying to get an internship at the Metro cause that has the highest readership in London or something, but I seem to recall that they're owned by someone evil, aren't they? (Then again, are there any papers that aren't owned by someone evil?)

(Gah, what is wrong with Saturday morning telly today? Where are the cartoons? Where is the pop? There's nothing but shouty kids presenters and Friends and that whatever-the-f@ck is the new Dawsons Freak/Smallpill/The OV moody lighting and pouting teenagers crap... bring back 90210 says I! Humph!)

also saturday kitchen has lost the ginger gnome but gained the wide twat.

Dick and Dom in da Bungalow is great!

I have to admit, I like the Pants Dance, that is freaking ace.

AND OH MY GOD POP SKOOL, DID ANYONE SEE THAT!?!? Hair flicking lessons and The Eyebrows Helicopter! most classic moment ever. Most of the time Pop Skool is stupid, but holy shit! I actually fell off the couch laughing. I should be writing this shit. Sigh.

Oops, sorry, Cat is gonna kill me for derailing her thread. Please! Make internship recommendations to make up for it.

Unless it's a magazine you'd really like to remain with as a contributor, do not do a magazine internship for the style press. The Face have never taken on work experience people - and it would be stupid to approach a magazine perceived as 'about to fold' because it shows you don't know the marketplace. Also, according to the guy in charge at Edgy Style Mag, companies now have to pay the tax/NI contributions of interns as if they were working on a minimum wage basis, so a lot of independent mags have basically stopped taking on interns (let's call it the closure of the Dazed and Confused voluntary staffing loophole) since April '03 when it came into effect (I placed a fashion intern two months before the rules changes but can't do it now).

Figure out what kind of journalist you want to be and pursue the relevant placement. The careers office where you are doing your course may well have relationships with HR departments at newspapers and the larger mag publishers like Emap, purely because their students have to be processed therough this requirement.

Also do the Metro placement if you've had it offered because although Associated own it, the Mail and the Standard, they treat their employees well and pay them the market rate for their work. Politics really doesn't matter unless you're headed for the Comment pages; if your work is in demand you will work across all the papers. Many of my friends who started on the Guardian and Observer in features/consumer topics are now at other papers on the Tory end of the scale, and vice-versa.

I was interested in The Face because I thought that if they saved it, watching them save a magazine from extinction would be a valuable experience.
And it wouldn't be the only one I would do. Ideally.

That's kind of a romantic notion but it will be saved (or not) in meetings with suits, far away from the prying eyes of interns, which they don't take on anyway.

It would be hilarious to do this at Heat (where you can work with ex-Face people).

Heat is not accepting any applications until 2005.

What exactly are editorial interns? The face has listed them in the past. Is there a difference?