Spring Intern - TV 7

Job Description

KGO-TV (ABC7) 7 On Your Side Intern, Spring 2025

About the Role & Program

KGO-TV (ABC7) is an ABC-owned television station (OTV), located in San Francisco near the city's iconic waterfront. The station is in the #8 ranked television market in the country! You will have an opportunity to participate in developmental programming and contribute to daily operations of a major market television station.

With the 7 on Your Side team, you will get hands-on experience working with our team that produces consumer news segments each week day, reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers and directly helping the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area!

While you'll get news production experience, you'll also learn essential office skills. Overall, we hope to teach how to find, craft, and distribute good stories while instilling a sense of teamwork and a desire to help those around us.

The approximate dates of this internship are January 2025 to early June 2025.

What You Will Do
• Keep up with daily consumer news with an eye for potential stories, with possible light writing assignments
• Research for producers' stories, including web research, verify data over the phone, and cross-check multiple sources
• Help sift through viewer responses to find the most compelling stories for the producers, and compile data on the information gathered from the pool of viewer messages
• Help consumer counselors as they answer viewer email and present the viewers' issues to the relevant companies/agencies.
• Assist producers on field shoots

Required Qualifications & Skills
• Experience using Microsoft Word, Google Docs and Google Sheets, Zoom, Slack
• Experience creating and maintaining spreadsheets in Excel
• Experience with researching and keeping multiple projects organized
• High attention to detail and experience multitasking in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications
• Previous experience (academic or internship) in journalism (print and/or broadcast); television, news and news media production; and/or television news script writing
• Experience with AP style writing
• Familiarity with Adobe Premiere and/or Airtable
• Experience using camera and/or lighting equipment

Education
• 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 Internship
• Undergraduate students in their Junior or Senior year or recently graduated within the past 6 months preferred

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:
• 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

Additional Information
• Able to have a consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the internship
• The approximate dates of this internship are January 2025 to early June 2025
• Fully available to work 20 hours per week during a Monday through Sunday schedule (hours and days to be determined by your supervisor and could include nights and/or weekends)
• Able to provide own housing for the duration of the internship program​ in the San Francisco, California area
• Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work​

The pay rate for this role in California is $18.67 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

About Disney Entertainment Television:

Disney Entertainment Television is a collection of renowned content brands at The Walt Disney Company creating original entertainment and news programming for the company's streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu and Star, and its broadcast and cable networks. Its extensive portfolio is comprised of ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations, Disney Branded Television, Freeform, FX, Hulu Originals, National Geographic Content and Onyx Collective, in addition to Disney Television Studios, which include 20th Television, 20th Television Animation, ABC Signature and Walt Disney Television Alternative. Responsible for over 4,500 hours of programming a year across more than 300 programs of all genres, Disney Entertainment Television's creative brands are at the forefront of groundbreaking storytelling, captivating audiences and generating critical acclaim. In 2023, Disney Entertainment Television's programming excellence earned 163 Emmy® nominations across daytime, primetime, news & documentary, and children's & family categories.

This position is with KGO Television, Inc, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment Television.

KGO Television, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ree077-3-145-99-15-42 in your application.