Recap of Multimedia Internship

This internship faced me up with the truth of every news reporter. It opened my eyes to the moral issues our job requires you to solve in silence. It helped me to eliminate some double standards I could not let in the way of my job. The experience was enriching, it made me mature personally and grow as a professional on the field. I was the reporter on the streets, the eyes of those who could not be there when things happened. I also got to be the editor, the selector of images, giving shape to the clay.
One thing I did not appreciate at all was my relationship with my boss. She is a really nice person, and I did not have any social-related problem with her whatsoever; yet she showed little to zero interest on my job. Out of the six weeks I worked for the newspaper, she took off three for vacations. Whenever she was in the office, she would answer e-mails and get on facebook, twitter, and other social networks, and stay logged in all day. To me, other than for some specific assignments and commands, my boss was non-existent. She did not care much about getting to know me or teach me anything, really. My co-workers were my guidance and tutors, I learned a lot from them.
A few other things I could criticize are that the multimedia department does not work with any production plan at all; they do type up scripts, but they never file them; they have a digital archive of all video content produced, but they do not keep a high-quality physical archive of all the material they shoot and the content they publish. I attribute this to the fact that they have only five years of working on the production of video, and they have had not a school of production other than experimenting and practice. They do what they can with the resources they have.
I was proud I could help the producer of the weekly Chef show by designing a production plan chart for him. He had a little idea of how it should look like, and he made the videographers write down on a piece of paper the time codes of each cut, so it would be easier to edit the show later. Yet the chart facilitated this time-code-keeping and made the editing faster. At the end I felt like it was not only me learning, but my coworkers were able to learn something from me too. I felt useful.
A good learning experience after all. :)