# Charity PR staff get chance to experience top media workplaces

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/09/28/charity-pr-staff-get-chance-experience-top-media-workplaces/
- Published: 2009-09-28T12:00:28+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

[⌊Newsroom panorama⌉⌊Newsroom panorama⌉[

 

The Media Trust is offering ten week-long work placements to PR or press officers
from voluntary organisations, giving them the chance to experience working at a 
range of top media companies including regional, local and national newspapers, 
BBC radio and television news, Press Association and Sky News.

 

## Advertisement

The aim of the Media Connections programme is to help charity press and PR staff
learn how to improve their organisation’s relationship with the media in order to
gain more publicity for its activities.

 

Applications require a CV and a covering letter of no more than 800 words.

 

The placements take place during November and December 2009.

 

While most successful applicants will be awarded a placement locally, travel and
expenses are not covered.

 

The deadline for applications is 8 October 2009.

 

www.mediatrust.org/community-newswire/media-connections

 

_Photo: [Newsroom panorama](http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/261126130)
by victoriapeckham on Flickr.com._

 

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