Spring Intern - Newsone Sports / News Video Production

Job Description

NewsOne is the affiliate news service of ABC News. NewsOne provides complete, round-the-clock coverage of news and sports events to ABC owned and affiliate stations, domestic programs, and news organizations, foreign clients and partners as well as ABC News programs.

Responsibilities:

A day in the life…
You will be supporting both the sports and news departments at NewsOne.
• Sports- Helping to distribute and share video of interesting sports stories on a local, regional and national level and share this video throughout ABC News, our affiliates and ESPN. Editing sports news of day, including excerpts of sports press conferences, file video, and highlights. Logging or transcribing sports-related press conferences and interviews. Maintaining our digital sports archive, the only immediate, instant access to sports files for ABC News
• NewsOne Main Rim- Learning all aspects of production, as well as supporting the news desk. Assisting with video requests, authoring advisories and alerts, interfacing with affiliates and clients, processing video requests, cutting vosots, editing using Avid non-linear editing system, and assisting NewsOne correspondents and guests on NewsOne flashcamera

Basic Qualifications:

What you bring to the role...
• Pursuing a degree and coursework in broadcast journalism or TV production
• Proven self-starter, able to work independently
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Digital editing skills (AVID preferred)
• A sports fan with high interest in sports news (For Sports Desk)

Preferred Qualifications:
• Recent graduates
• An interest in politics
• Strong experience using AVID digital editing system
• Experience working for college sports/news TV station or a prior internship in news/sports

Additional Information:
• Must be at least 18 years old
• Must possess unrestricted work authorization
• Must currently be enrolled in an accredited college or university and taking at least one class – OR – be a recent graduate of an accredited college or university within the last 6 months - OR - be currently participating in the Disney College Program, Disney Culinary Program or Disney Professional Internship Program
• Must be able to work in the New York City office and provide your own housing and transportation for the duration of the internship
• Must be able to have a consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the session

Program Dates
• The approximate dates of this internship are January to May
• Candidate must be available to work 40 hours/week and open to nights and weekends. Interns may be asked to work in the office 2-3 days/week and remotely the rest.

About ABC News:

This position is with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., which is part of a business segment we call ABC News.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3xo44-18-224-30-118-42 in your application.