During the hot, beautiful summer of 2012, I carried
out a work placement with the Abu Dhabi Week Magazine in the capital of the
United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi.
Having organised this work placement through email
correspondence with the Editors of the publication, I was excited to embark on
this journey, one which turned out to be invaluable.
Living in Abu Dhabi for most of my life, I have had
wonderful experiences growing up, all of which I feel have shaped me into the
person I am today. My work placement with the AD Week has been one of the
several amazing opportunities I’ve had, and due to organisational skills, I was
able to carry this out for a month with the magazine; Turret Media’s premier
consumer publication, now the best distributed publication in the capital.
Anyway, during my placement, not only did I carry
out many interviews and get several by-lines in the magazines, I also travelled
to locations including Yas Island and a beauty salon.
My placement gave me the opportunity to develop upon
journalistic skills, and because of this and other things I’ve done, my drive
to seek out a story, interview people and to write, have all proved beneficial
and have greatly helped me along my learning curve into becoming the successful
journalist I aim to be.
Many of my articles were published, and they can be
viewed on my clippings.me website:
You can read some of my following posts to see what
I got up to during my work placement abroad. Working within a busy, bustling
newsroom was simply brilliant, and then going out on the job was, well,
fabulous! The travel involved in this work placement included me travelling to
Abu Dhabi, and then out many times for reporting, using my Teeline Shorthand to
help; interviewees were impressed with my ability to do so.
Being able to put what I’d learnt into practice when
setting up the A-master layout, on the computer programme, In-Design, for the
AD Week’s new publication, Traveller, really impressed the Editors.
My work placement with the Abu Dhabi Week was such a
worthwhile experience which I’ll never forget as a journalist.
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