Intern - Design Visuals

Job Description

CNN Design Visuals Internship (September 2022)

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

The CNN International Visuals team are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic design intern to start a 3-6 month paid internship this autumn.
Our team is made up of visual journalists, data journalists, developers and designers, we combine storytelling, data and design to create compelling interactive features, dataviz, mapping and illustrations for news stories.

We're looking for a design intern who's enthusiastic and proactive. You don't need to know all the programs, but you'd be keen to learn how to visualise the news.

The Daily:
• Researching and designing data visualizations for news stories
• Creating wireframes of interactive websites and concepts for new ways of digital visual storytelling
• Visualising those designs as working prototypes
• Gathering and exporting assets
• Illustrating page toppers (the illustrations that represent a news story and sit at the top)
• Creating posts and managing our CNN Creative Instagram account

The Essentials:
• A portfolio of digital graphic design work that shows a good demonstration of the basic design principles like alignment, balance and hierarchy
• Designs or concepts for creative interactive websites
• Digital designs that show you can tell a story online, perhaps with different components like dataviz, audio, text, vector illustration or photography.
• Within these projects you'd show us a good understanding of UX
• You'd be familiar with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma and a prototyping app eg. Figma

The Nice-to-Haves:
• Knowledge of basic code
• Experience creating dataviz
• Experience working with data sets, and using them to tell stories or creating visuals

Although the office is in Old Street, east London the internship can be fully remote, as long as you're UK-based.
Our ideal intern would be proactive and be able to work autonomously. Our internships typically last for 4 months and are geared around the availability of each candidate.

Please submit your CV (no cover letter required) if you'd like to apply by Sunday 31st July 2022 . Within 5 days of submitting your application, you will be invited to complete an application questionnaire via HireVue - you must complete this to be considered for the role.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwvzz2-18-188-29-250-42 in your application.