Intern-2 News Producer
About The Position
Fox TV Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations in the U.S. These include stations located in 14 of the top 15 largest designated market areas, or DMAs, and duopolies in 11 DMAs, including the three largest DMAs (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago). Of these stations, 18 are affiliated with the FOX Network. In addition to distributing sports, entertainment and syndicated content, our television stations collectively produce approximately 1,200 hours of local news every week. These stations leverage viewer, distributor and advertiser demand for the FOX Network’s national content.
Requirements
- Commitment is essential throughout the program.
Responsibilities
- Gathering content for various newscasts
- Writing news stories from press releases/FOX feed
- Communicating with assignment desk and reporters
- Stacking a rundown
- Working with digital team to write stories
- Working with digital team on producing content for FOX Orlando Live
- Putting together segments for newscasts (packages, reporter hits, anchor segments)
- Shadow reporters on the job & write packages
- Creating graphics and maps
- Boothing a newscast
- Understanding how a legitimate newsroom finds stories, confirms information, and decides what stories to pursue each day.
- Learning how to tell impactful stories.
- Understanding how a newsroom works together to distribute information on all of its platforms: TV, news app, streaming, social media.
- Learning how to properly pitch and vet a story: Idea, impact, character(s), and delivery.
- Learning how to search court records, federal records, submit public records requests, and reach out to spokespersons to verify information.
- Learning how to confirm, write, and deliver news for digital audiences (and specific platforms).
- Learning how to create SEO headlines, subheads, and why we do it.
- Learning how to optimize news, articles, and videos for social media, YouTube, mobile apps, and streaming.
- Developing skills to become a digital content producer, journalist, and leader.
Benefits
- This is a paid internship.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
