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Learning from an internship with Bloomberg News

Theo Keith, a rising senior at the University of Missouri, blogs about his experience interning with Bloomberg News in Detroit this past summer and how he plans to use those skills.

Keith writes, “While I’m working on one last story and on guard for spot news, my time in Metro Detroit is just about over. I’ve relished the opportunity to be close to the cities and issues that helped define my character, and I’ve had a lot of fun reporting on my favorite subject, transportation.

“The summer included covering the president, and I’ll hold onto the White House press pass for a long time. I interviewed chief executives, car dealers and autoworkers. I was in the GM Reinaissance Center when Ed Whitacre, the company’s CEO, said he would step down. (I was covering a different story.)

“Intermission Deli, big-city news and Up North were a part of my life again. I gained experience in the business journalism profession I plan to call my own soon.

“My learning experience with the Bloomberg terminal will continue this fall because I’m planning to use the University of Missouri’s unit for stories. I previously mentioned that I’ll be reporting and anchoring a Sunday night business news block on KOMU, the NBC station in mid-Missouri.”