Disney Summer Internships – WLS-TV (ABC 7) News/I-Team Internship In Chicago

Job Description:

The Consumer Investigative Unit of the I-Team responds to viewers who need help or feel as though they have been ripped off or wronged. The I-Team looks for patterns of complaints attached to certain companies to warn other viewers. We also alert viewers to data and privacy concerns and find stories that have broad warnings, which can help improve people’s everyday lives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Set up interviews
• Log interviews with use of Dalet
• Help find digital original stories
• Attend shoots and interviews with reporter and or producer
• Sit in on editing of segments
• Assist investigative reporter and producer with stories by researching and following up on hotline calls and emails
• Submit FOIAs

Job Requirements/Qualifications:

• Junior, Senior, Grad Student or Recent Graduate within six (6) months of graduation at the time of application
• Knowledge of how to log interviews, screen calls, and emails
• Studying journalism or broadcast television in college
• Judgement of what may or may not be an investigation
• Some editorial experience on rooting out a story
• Strong communication skills to talk to callers who are seeking help from the I-Team