Are you a news junkie? Do you write for your college newspaper? Have a radio show on your college station? Upload your own videos to YouTube? Whether you want to be behind the camera, in front of the camera, or in the editing room, CNN offers an excellent internship program that will get you familiar with working in television and the news. If you want to pursue a career in broadcast journalism, CNN is the place to start. The variety of internships that they offer provide phenomenal opportunities for hands-on experience and training.
Although the deadline for Summer internships passed (it was April 13th), it appears that CNN still has internships for this summer listed on their website. Beyond that, we also saw 2 internships with CNN in New York posted on a separate job board. Since we’re not sure which specific internships are still available, we’re just going to tell you how to navigate the process to score an internships with CNN for this summer. Of course, CNN also offers Fall and Spring internships, so if you’re looking that far forward, you can certainly use these tips to get started on the process well in advance (the deadline to apply for Fall internships is August 24th).
CNN has 3 separate internship pages – one for positions in Atlanta, GA, one for positions in other U.S. cities, and one for international positions. The process for applying to each is different, but it’s relatively well laid out on the respective pages. Each page links to internship search results based on the city. You can easily see which opportunities are still listed for your city of interest, or you can use the overall search function to search for all internships with CNN. The problem is that CNN’s Applicant Tracking System sucks. Many positions are still listed, but when you click through to apply, it tells you that the job no longer exists. It builds up false hopes. If you do find an internship that is still listed, you then have to sign up and login to apply. We’d link to individual internship postings, but the way CNN’s Applicant Tracking System generates links doesn’t allow us to. The site also doesn’t work in Safari. It’s pretty much a total mess. Follow the steps that we just told you, and you should be ok, but finding and applying for an internship with CNN certainly isn’t intuitive.
Still, CNN is a great name to have on your resume, so it’s probably worth your trouble – especially since it’s almost June. Interns at CNN are unpaid and are responsible for their own housing and transportation, so we hope you’ve been saving up too. Great experience can be expensive. Lastly, we did see two internships at CNN in New York posted on a closed job board. We don’t know if these are also posted on CNN’s site, since the job title on the posting was non-specific, but the listing did ask applicants to send a cover letter and resume to richard.morris@turner.com. That’s a lot easier than going through the application process on their website.
If you’re still having trouble navigating the internship application process with CNN, don’t be afraid to leave a comment on this post. We’ll get back to you and see if we can figure out how to help you. Good luck!
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