Journalistic vs. more traditional finance internship?

Freshman at a target deciding between a few options to pursue.

One is an internship at a prestigious business/finance publication (think Forbes, Economist, WSJ, FT), another is a Big4 internship, and the last is a run of the mill PWM internship.

I'm REALLY leaning towards the former. I don't think a Big4/PWM internship can provide the same, broad networking opps or even just be a really unique freshman internship for soph summer recruiting. It'll still be about finance/business, but I always won't be picking up Bloomberg Terminal or financial modelling or any 'hard' skills like that. What do you guys think? I've heard of people doing internships with their Congressmen or something in a similar vein during their freshman summer, so I figured a journalist internship might be great as well.

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