In order to balance the practical and theoretical knowledge required by the journalism profession, journalism degree programmes both in Slovenia and abroad combine the usual forms of higher education teaching (lecture, seminar, tutorials) with training students in real media organisations. At the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (FDV), during the first and the second level of Journalism studies students undertake 150 hours of internship. In my master's thesis, I presented the implementation of the internship and its scope at the FDV, and then compared it with four journalism study programmes abroad. Furthermore, I established the consistency between expectations that students have before their internship begins and their satisfaction with the internship once they have completed it. Finally, I was also interested in the opinion of supervisors in media organisations about the knowledge and skills that FDV journalism students have when they start their internships and how successfully they upgrade both. I wanted to learn more about supervisors' experience of mentoring students as well. I used three research methods: document review, survey and semi-structured interview. Among other conclusions my research showed, that FDV journalism internship, in addition to journalism internship at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, takes the longest period of time in comparison to some other faculties abroad, and that both students and supervisors perceive FDV training to be of high quality. Another useful result of the research are two survey questionnaires for students and one interview questionnaire for supervisors, which could be directly implemented into the execution of future internships.
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