Fall / Winter Intern - TV -Team & Consumer

Job Description

WLS-TV (ABC7) I-Team & Consumer Intern, Fall 2024/Winter 2025

About the Role & Program

ABC7 (WLS-TV) Chicago is the Midwest flagship of the ABC television network. ABC7 leads the market in local news coverage with daily newscasts and has been in a number one position in local news since March 1986! The station's offices and studios are in The Loop in downtown Chicago!

What You Will Do
Our Consumer Investigative Unit of the I-Team responds to viewers who need help or feel as though they have been ripped off or wronged. The I-Team looks for patterns of complaints attached to certain companies to warn other viewers. We also alert viewers to data and privacy concerns and find stories that have broad warnings, which can help improve people's everyday lives.

The Consumer division of the I-Team also proactively digs for other stories through research and the use of the Freedom of Information Act to uncover wrongdoing and problems which affect consumer's pocketbooks.
• Assist investigative reporter and producer with stories by researching and following up on hotline calls and emails
• Attend field shoots and interviews with reporter and or producer
• Sit in on editing of segments
• Log interviews with use of Dalet
• Set up interviews
• Submit Freedom of Information Act requests for data
• Help find digital original stories

Required Qualifications & Skills
• Knowledge of how to log interviews, screen calls, and emails
• Some editorial experience on rooting out a story
• Strong communication skills to talk to callers who are seeking help from the I-Team
• A self-starter and willingness to take initiative

Preferred Qualifications
• Judgement of what may or may not be an investigation
• Studying journalism or broadcast television in college

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all the below requirements:
• Be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR must have graduated from a college/university within 6 months at time of application posting OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship
• Be at least 18 years of age
• Have not completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or program.
• Possess unrestricted work authorization

Additional Information
• Able to have a consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the internship
• The approximate dates of this internship are October 2024 through June 2025
• All candidates must be willing to work 20 hours/week (hours and days to be determined by your supervisor)
• Able to provide own housing for the duration internship program in the Chicago, IL area
• Able to provide reliable transportation to/from work in the Chicago, IL area

Print This Role Description: Strong candidates may be invited to complete a phone interview. We strongly encourage applicants to print a copy of this role description, so they can refer to it in the event they are selected for a phone interview. Note that this role description will not be accessible once the posting is closed.

About Disney Entertainment:

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company's powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you'll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

This position is with WLS Television, Inc., which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8j55k-18-119-139-22-42 in your application.