ABSTRACT

Internships in journalism frequently gauge the technical skills of students. The employability of journalism students in the news media industry rests on applying industry-aligned news work skills. However there have been few studies or assessments of the seamless integration of journalism students' technical or hard skills and their soft skills, the latter referring to personality skills that are also required of modern-day workers and of journalists. This mixed methods study determined how editors and mentors of interns quantitatively and qualitatively assessed the technical (hard) and soft skills of journalism students from a comprehensive university in the Philippines. This study integrated feedback as a word cloud and as thematised qualitative statements, as well as numeric assessments of 299 internship evaluation forms through structural equation modelling. It was found that the more that journalism students were prepared for on-the-job training, and the more that classroom lessons were applied, the better the students' performance during the internship sortie.

摘要

新闻实习经常衡量学生的技术技能。新闻专业学生在新闻媒体行业的就业能力取决于应用与行业一致的新闻工作技能。然而，很少有研究或评估新闻专业学生的技术或硬技能与软技能的无缝结合，后者指的是现代工作者和记者也需要的人格技能。这项混合方法研究确定了实习生的编辑和导师如何定量和定性地评估菲律宾一所综合性大学新闻专业学生的技术（硬）和软技能。这项研究将反馈整合为词云和主题化的定性陈述，以及通过结构方程模型对299份实习评估表进行数值评估。结果发现，新闻专业学生对在职培训的准备程度越高，课堂教学应用得越多，学生在实习出动期间的表现就越好。