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Here, you can be part of a team who is the first to know when the news is breaking. Here, you can develop your skills at a company that cares about its employees, its communities, and its culture.
NBC DFW Internships provide students with real world experience and exposure to working in the television news industry. Internships at NBC DFW are paid and do not require course credit.
NBC Dallas/Fort Worth is looking for a team player who is looking to take on the experiences in all facets of the Newsroom. This is an opportunity to have hands-on experience in ev…
What you'd do
- Participate in daily planning meetings. Contribute ideas for news programming based on the NBC DFW News Strategy.
- Be present in the control room during the news program to observe communication among the producer, director, and production personnel.
- Use websites and social media tools to monitor and report news, find sources and leads for stories. Monitor mainstream and social media sites for story ideas and competitive intelligence.
- Write assigned segments, which may include digital newscasts
- Make beat checks and enter current and future news assignments into system
- Make and answer phone calls
- Help coordinate guests for newscasts
- Writing articles for our website using AP Style and formatting
- Work with reporters, meteorologists and other members of the news team to prepare web articles
- Cut video from newscasts and add proper metadata to post them on social media and our website/app
What they want
- Must be actively enrolled in a degree-granting program at an accredited institution during the length of the program and be able to provide documentation to confirm your degree progress
- Current class standing of sophomore or above (30 credits)
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by NBCUniversal
- Must be willing to work at the station in Fort Worth, Texas. Desired Characteristics
- Pursuing a major in Journalism, Communications, or similar subject
- Familiarity with Premiere and Photoshop
- Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and creative skills
- Exceptional project management, organizational and presentation skills
- Experience using TikTok, Facebook, Instagram
- Prior use of WordPress preferred but not required
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