The opportunity to make your mark in Online Football Journalism

The Football FanCast internship scheme gives budding football writers a great opportunity to demonstrate their skills as a journalist. As an intern, you are given a great deal of freedom to pick subjects and issues that interest you and learn a great deal yourself about what makes a good article. The internship gives you a great insight into the area of internet journalism and blogging and over the few months of the course, you improve markedly as a writer.

If you decide that football journalism is right up your street, then there may be further opportunities for you to take advantage of following the completion of your internship. One intern David Tully has gone on to run a Liverpool fan site, Live4Liverpool.com, and is now forging his career in the world of online football journalism. David comments favourably on the opportunities he was given:

“Overall, the internship gave me the insight I wanted, to know whether football journalism was for me, and after the completion of the internship I was offered by Niall and Sarah a chance to be an editor of a new website. It was an opportunity I gladly accepted and they have given me the complete freedom to come up with ideas for how the website should be presented and what should be on the site in regards to content. I am now running the website live4liverpool.com, and earning money from a sport I both love watching and writing about.”

Mark Greenwood is another successful Intern who has also had the opportunity to start and run his own football website. Having an unrivalled passion for Spanish football, Mark is now running ThisIsFutbol.com and is sharing his love of La Liga with fellow supporters. Mark has come on a long way since the start of his internship and it is a journey that he has enjoyed hugely:

“I’m very grateful at the opportunities given to me by SN&CK Media as my running of a site has led to increased creativity and thinking on my part and also the opportunity to share my interests with the rest of the world. There’s even more of a sense of responsibility when you’re running your own site and I think it’s helping me mature as a person and as a writer as I have to carefully consider what people would want to read. I believe that I’m growing as a person with these responsibilities and that can only be a good thing.”

Chudi Onwuazor has also completed the internship scheme and now runs the Manchester United site TheBusbyWay.com. He speaks of being given all the help needed to set up and run his own site, the pride and responsibility that he has earned and the fact that he is now doing a job that he loves. Chudi exclaims that:

“In running The Busby Way, the quote ‘If you find a job you love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life’ has proper meaning. I love Manchester United and to get paid to discuss all things Manchester United seems a right touch. When I did my internship for Football FanCast I was given all the tools in order to run my own site and now I do, I’m finding it like a hobby rather than a job.”

“There is a real sense of responsibility as well as ownership with the site that is helping develop me not only as a writer but also as a person. People email me and ask me questions on United like I am an authority and to see that people are reading what I write as well as interacting with it real does make me proud!”

As David, Mark and Chudi will testify, a SN&CK Media football journalism internship is a great way to get a taste of the world of online journalism and many opportunities are opened up upon completion of the internship. David and Mark have gone from football fans, to experienced football writers and are now running their own football sites and writing about the sport that they love. The internship is open to anyone with a passion for the beautiful game, and you too could soon be a fully fledged online football journalist.

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If you would like to join the Internship Scheme, please email us at info@snack-media.com