I have two personal experiences that I'm quite
proud of but am nonetheless hesitant to include in my cover letter and
resume when applying for reporting internships.
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One: I organized a demonstration in support of a controversial political position.
Two: I am currently working as a researcher at a prominent conservative institution.
I'm a liberal, actually, but I feel that I might scare some editors off as a Scary Conservative-Activist Man. What do you think?
Not a Scary Guy
I can understand you're proud of these
experiences, but I would leave off the first one. It is a one-time,
short-term event that speaks well of your organizational abilities but
doesn't amount to a resume-length experience.
The research experience is a job and needs to be on your resume.
Omitting it would be evasive. You'll just have to let the editors
decide how they want to consider that experience.
As newspapers try to separate news reporting from editorials, reporters
need to be very careful about taking sides. But you cannot simply leave
the jobs off your resume.
