Is it advisable to defer An Internship

oneyearandout
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:27:37 +0000

So I am in a “possible” dilemma here.

I’m a journalism student at a local community college in NY. I am currently interning this fall 2015 and secured another internship at a local Pulitzer prize-winning newspaper for spring 2016.

I am currently applying for an internship for summer 2016 at newspaper A in upstate New York and newspaper B in NYC. I would like to go upstate during the summer to work with newspaper A because I won’t be taking any classes plus its a bigger paper. I am yet to hear back from newspaper A but I’m having an interview with newspaper B in a couple of weeks. I might have to accept the internship before I hear back from newspaper A.

Should I eventually hear back from A after accepting an offer from B, is it advisable to defer internship B to fall 2016. Do I tell them to give me time before I accept the offer? If not how should I go about it.

Please help!