What are the responsibilities and job description for the NBC Telemundo Connecticut Assignment Desk/Digital Intern - Summer 2025 position at NBCUniversal?
Company Description
The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day.
In addition to our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our interns:
- Robust networking, learning and development opportunities..
- Access to mental health resources including counseling sessions.
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain, and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests, and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced, and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
Here, you can unlock your potential by contributing to projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day.
Here, you can be part of a team who is the first to know when news is breaking. Here, you can develop your skills at a company that cares about its employees, its communities, and its culture.
NBC & Telemundo Connecticut Internships provide students with real world experience and exposure to working in the television news industry. Internships at NBC & Telemundo Connecticut are paid and do not require course credit.
Pay rate is minimum wage.
NBC Connecticut & Telemundo Connecticut are looking for a team player to join our team. As an assignment desk/digital intern on this team, you will support our efforts to create informative, engaging and compelling content for multiple platforms and sites.
- Participate in daily planning meetings and contribute story ideas
- Use social media and websites to find news and contact the appropriate sources to confirm
- 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
- Generate ideas for stories and articles, with a focus on Google Trends, SEO strategy and current events
- Participate in brainstorming sessions for new ideas for content and platforms
- Keep up on social media trends and pitch ideas on how our newsroom can incorporate new ideas into our strategy
- Prior use of WordPress preferred but not required
- Interest in the television, streaming or digital industries
- Knowledge of AP Style and newswriting
Qualifications
Eligibility Requirements:
- 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 West Hartford, CT
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
- Interest in the television, streaming or digital industries
- Knowledge of AP Style and newswriting
- Bilingual skills – Spanish/English – preferred, but not necessary
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].