WTAE News Intern
Hearst Television, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
The story is yours!
Duration: Freelance
WTAE-TV, the Hearst-owned ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, PA is recruiting college students for our 12-week paid internship program, which provides a hands-on professional learning experience, with an emphasis on TV News Producing. The WTAE Internship Program is administered through in-person training and shadowing of news producers, group meetings, and video conference calls.
WTAE-TV is Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. The Pittsburgh’s Action News team brings live updates from all of Pittsburgh’s communities, in-depth coverage of issues that matter most to viewers, and works to take action for viewers and hold public officials accountable.
Interns are introduced to every aspect of news operation, including but not limited to; news producing, digital content creation, assignment desk operations, news photography, news editing, and broadcast production. Interns work closely with assignment desk editors and producers with the goal of newsgathering, producing, writing, and presenting news content.
Qualifications
Ambitious, reliable, and enthusiastic college students should have some classroom experience in broadcast journalism, and preferably some knowledge of a television newsroom.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and writing skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Desire to learn new skills and how a newscast comes together from the ground up
- Strong critical thinking and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to demonstrate good judgment, resourcefulness, confidence
- Possess a positive, professional attitude
- Possess the ability to pay close attention to detail
- Willingness to work different times of day
Summer 2024 Internship Program Dates
Application Deadline: April 1, 2024
Session: May 13 – August 9, 2024
Weekly Workload: 16-24 hours each week
Students must have junior, senior or graduate studies level status to apply.
About Hearst Television
Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.
Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.
Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.