I am going to be very honest, bc I want help with this badly.
I am intelligent, motivated, dedicated and hard working. However, I have no connections in media and I do not know how to break in.
I went to a four year university, started out majoring in Broadcast Journalism. I joined the campus newspaper. I was on the campus TV station--all my freshman year. I became discouraged in between sophomore and junior years-- when it was time to look for internships. So I switched to Elementary Education and English. I graduated with a BA in English and ELED, and a Minor in Mass Media Studies. The summer after graduation, I got an on-air internship for a streaming financial news website, which went under shortly after. I did, however, get some tapes. I met a local freelance news man at a drowning at the ocean. I approached him and made a contact. He helped me shoot some more footage for a demo. I shipped this demo ALL over the country. I have writing samples (newspaper,) as well for interviews. But I was never contacted--not even so much as a rejection, for the 75 demos I sprinkled from Portland, OR to Portland, ME.
Here is that demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEEz6xIZvA My question to you is--what am I doing wrong? It's been 3 years but I'm not ready to give up. I want to go back to school.
What schools are willing to guide students into internships? I think once I get the internship at a station, no matter how small, I will do really well there and will get a job. But I can't even get in the door. I almost got in trouble with a ND for kind of sneaking in to hand deliver my demo :-( I got yelled at. Anyway. I am really at a loss--mailing doesn't work, sneaking in doesn't work...what can I do??