Documentary Production Internships: ATL - Fall 2026

Your New Role

Your Role Accountabilities
Duties could include: Pitching story ideas to researching and developing a show, setting up shoots, and gathering editorial and video materials
Shadow and assist editorial staff.
Research, gathering media including archival footage, transcription, logging, organizing visual elements, and fact-checking.
Prepare pitches for shows, characters or experts
Screwing and screening documentary films, writing coverage, and giving feedback for documentary films.
Organizing and gathering relevant industry data and input.

Qualifications & Experience

• Candidates should be passionate about news and long-form/documentary storytelling
• Self-motivated
• Able to multitask
• Have a good attitude
• Be able to function well in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
• Highly organized, detail-oriented
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Passion for topical news and key issues of the moment, especially as related to popular culture
• Strong interest in documentaries
• Computer and analytical skills
• Must know how to use PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and similar spreadsheet platforms
• Willing to work both with a team and independently
• Must be actively enrolled in an accredited college or university degree program for the full duration of the internship (proof of enrollment required)
• Candidates must be a rising Junior or rising Senior undergrad student (18 years or older)
• Candidates must be in academic good standing (3.0 or above GPA)
• A transcript will be required to verify your GPA if an offer is extended

About Our Internship Program

We attract the country’s boldest and brightest students for paid, for-credit, real-world internship experiences in the entertainment, tech, sports, news and media industries. We offer career-defining opportunities to learn valuable skills that will help you prepare for a successful future.

How We Get Things Done

At WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.