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Sports News Intern, Fall 2024

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Media & Journalism
  • Glendale

Requirements

  • Experience (academic, employment, or extracurricular) within sports and/or sports journalism or media
  • Experience using Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Working toward a degree in broadcast journalism, communications, television production or related field
  • Previous coursework in producing, writing, or editing
  • Previous experience (academic or internship) in journalism (print and/or broadcast); television, news and new media production; and/or television news script writing
  • Education:
  • Undergraduate students in their Junior or Senior year or recently graduated within the past 6 months preferred
  • Eligibility Requirements & Internship Information:
  • Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of 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 Professional 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

Responsibilities

  • Attend production meetings and be involved in the preparation of daily sports shows, segments and special programming like “Slam Dunk” and “Sunday Night Sports”
  • Interview coaches, players, transcribe the interviews, and log and observe sports telecasts
  • Research and contribute to sports news topics (including online/social media news research)
  • Observe how sports segments are written, edited, and delivered on-air
  • Observe production in the newsroom, in-studio, and in the field at locations like Dodger Stadium and the Crypto.com Arena

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