Video and Audio Editing Internships: NYC - Fall 2026

Your New Role

Your Role Accountabilities
Duties could include:

• The intern will take direction from the audio unit's Producers and Senior Producers to shadow and develop and produce podcast episodes.
• Work closely with producers and hosts to develop ideas for episodes, including topics and guests.
• Edit podcast episodes and news briefs in Descript.
• Collaborate with hosts and producers on episode outlines and draft scripts.
• Fact-check scripts and ensure all episodes meet the content, quality, journalistic and legal standards of CNN.
• Support social promotion, including by identifying memorable audio bites and drafting social media language for episodes you produce.
• Pitch ideas for future episodes and shows.

Qualifications & Experience

• Strong passion for journalism and current events with a keen interest in news production and reporting, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure, collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in conducting online research and using news-related software/tools.
• Availability to work flexible hours in-person to accommodate the show's production schedule.
• Rising Junior or Senior (18 years or older).
• Actively enrolled in an accredited college or university degree program for the full duration of the internship (proof of enrollment required).
• 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

Here 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

We embrace 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.