CNN International (London) interview

November 18 I attended the interview with CNN International (London) feature producer Steph Busari, it was amazing and exciting.

It's my first time to go to Turner Hourse, and we talked about CNN International features online, what my opinions are about? How it compared with BBC feature online.

She also asked me to introduce a bit of myself, I talked about my BA in Malta, cultural exchange in India, being learning piano for nearly 14 years, probably I have so much to say, and I even forget to tell her I was invited to attend "image of Europe" meeting in Brussels with the EU summer school I attended, anyway!!...

And one of her questions was "shocked" me, "Are you from Royal Academy of Music?" Royal academy? I'm a master degree student in Broadcast Journalism and special projects integrating multimedia, I was a bit confused from the beginning.

"Oh, I created a multimedia website on the subject of Classical Music, and I invited pianists from three Royal Schools of Music based in England, the Royal Academy is one of them." I said, "Oh, yeah, I see your website and it's quite engaging." Stephanie smiled.

She found also interested in web design and making video/audio stuffs, so asked me do you want to work on writing or production during the internship period?

My point of view is of course the technological side is amazing, it definitely gives a surplus for story telling and make the story more attractive, but the traditional print side, I mean to get the reportage, to write it as an article and to possess excellent news judgement is still essential.

"Sure, you will be helping around the production side, and we'll see if you feel to comfortable to contribute to writing."

Afterwards, she showed me around the newsroom within CNN International, I am amazed by its busy news gathering environment, what a exciting place!

Being short-listed from CNN International, London

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Hello

Thank you very much for your email and your query. I heard that Stephanie Busari from CNN Dotcom has send you an email a few weeks back. Did you get in touch with her?

Many thanks
Katja

CNN Internship

Hello

Thank you for your recent application for an internship with CNN.com. We have reviewed your application and are interested in meeting with you.

However we have no internship positions available until the New Year, (dates to be confirmed). How does this fit into your plans and availability?

If you are available next year, then it would be good for you to come in and be interviewed by the CNN.com team sometime in mid- November. Hopefully we can work out a mutually convenient date.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact on the number below, or email me.

Kind regards

Stephanie Busari
Digitial Features Producer
CNN.com International

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CNN International Application

The application I applied at the beginning is "the International Correspondent" programme and "the Spiritual of" programme.

However, both of them are highly intellectual news/current affairs programmes.

Most probably my capacity still needs to be improved to match the standard of the above two programmes, otherwise I should heard from them.

Anyway all the internships offered there are brilliant, as long as I'm practising multimedia/online journalism, it will definitely good for my career.

CNN International Digital Feature Online

Online feature is the area that I'm quite familiar with, the experience worked with BBC absolutely gives me the advantage to work for CNN.

I'm so glad that the CNN digital feature producer Stephanie discovered my strength, now I could believe that how important the experience it is.

There might be other more competitive applicants there, most probably, but they might don't have the experience of working as a Online feature producer as what I did for BBC London, they might don't have the experience of working in CMS, they might not clear of the whole online feature production.

Develop my strength and discover my potential.