Digital Video Newsroom Internship

Job Description

ESPN Digital Video Newsroom Intern, Remote, Fall 2026 | ESPN

The Tone:
This is an internship at ESPN, located remotely. ESPN helps shape how sports fans experience the biggest moments in sports across every platform. It reaches millions of fans daily through social media, television, streaming, and digital platforms, delivering breaking news, live events, studio shows, and original storytelling. This role offers an up-and-coming video editor the chance to gain professional experience within the Digital Video newsroom, contributing to the production and editing of trending video content for ESPN’s domestic and global digital channels.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time, Temporary
• Location: Remote
• Pay: $22.50 hourly
• Team: Digital Video newsroom
• Mission: Create engaging digital video content and complete daily assignments like custom edits and digital highlights.
• Tech Stack: Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, Quantel, After Effects

What You’ll Actually Do
• Content Curation: Identify trending game and social moments and translate them into engaging digital video content.
• Audience Activation: Collaborate with internal and external teams to create and distribute videos that activate new audiences.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze performance metrics to recommend enhancements that improve engagement.
• Timeline Management: Manage production timelines effectively to ensure projects are delivered on schedule.
• Platform Enhancement: Stay current on latest trends, technology and best practices to support continuous improvement across ESPN platforms including YouTube.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Student pursuing a degree with coursework in Communications, Journalism, Sports Media, or a related major, with a preference for seniors.
• Experience: Experience in digital and social media with exposure to video production and content creation.
• Skills: Proficiency in non-linear editing tools (e.g., Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, Quantel, After Effects); strong working knowledge of current sports storylines, key teams, players, and cultural moments; ability to track and interpret social media trends; skilled in headline writing and content packaging with an understanding of effective distribution tactics; ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and deliver accurate work in a production environment.
• Bonus: Experience editing video content across multiple social media channels and platforms; ability to create and optimize mobile-first content; proficiency working within digital content management systems.