3 Internship/traineeship Opportunities in Greater London

Looking for an internship? Are you interested in media, TV and sports? Then apply!

Primary responsibilities include research, fact-checking, transcribing footage, assisting on shoots, contributing story and show ideas, attending planning and creative meetings and sourcing images and footage.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Detail-orientated
• Strong writing and research skills
• The ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Have the confidence to pitch story ideas and potential guests to show producers

Available opportunities:

World Sports (TV)

World Sport is CNN International's flagship sports show that runs multiple times a day, seven days a week. Our show focuses on sports news, big-name interviews and exploring themes like racism, gender inequality and athlete activism as we seek to go beyond the headlines. The key roles for our intern are to help identify and pitch interesting stories, book guests, help research for interviews and segments, and produce cross-platform content. The ideal candidate should have a broad knowledge on sports news, an ability to deliver to deadlines, be a strong communicator and somebody who thrives collaborating in a team environment.

Digital Sports (Online content only)

This intern will be assigned to the digital sport team, and will research and write news stories. As the internship progresses, there will be opportunities to pitch and write distinctive features.

Working for CNN London’s digital sport team across all CNN platforms the intern will assist producers and supervisors in researching and writing news stories and pitching and pulling together more distinctive features.

We’re looking for enthusiastic and proactive candidates with an interest in both news and features content, with a mixture of technical and editorial skills. They need to demonstrate both an ability to work under the pressure of news deadlines, along with the thoughtfulness and creativity required for longer features projects.

This intern will have an opportunity to learn a wide range of skills over the course of the program.

Digital Sport Video

Working for CNN London’s digital sport video team across all CNN platforms; the digital sport video intern will assist producers and supervisors across the full gamut of video production, from the research and pitching stage right through to post production and everything in between.

The Sport video unit is small but responsible for all sport output in the organization, focusing on daily turn news, feature and sponsorship content, as well as longer-form video. This internship position will have an opportunity to learn a wide range of skills over the course of the program. The intern may assist with the following: research, pitching and attending brainstorms, assisting producers, editors and shooters at base and in the field, explore sound design and editing in Adobe Premiere. A basic to moderate level of editing experience is essential for this role. After Effects and Photoshop knowledge is preferable, but not necessary.

Please submit your CV (no cover letter required) if you'd like to apply by midnight on Thursday 23rd June 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. The deadline to submit your HireVue questionnaire is Sunday 26th June 2022.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.