WCVB Summer 2025 Media Mentors Fellowship
WCVB Summer 2025 Media Mentors Fellowship
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Job Description
Application Submissions: 3/11/20253/28/2025
The Opportunity
The WCVB Media Mentors Fellowship is designed to give students exposure to the television broadcast news industry. The fellowship will give the student an opportunity to learn from a cross section of departments as well and to spend focused time in a specialty of their choice. This fellowship was created as part of the WCVB Media Mentors Initiative with a purpose of creating a better informed better prepared and diverse next generation of media professionals.
Fellowship Eligibility
- Currently attending Roxbury Community College or Massasoit Community College. Students who will graduate in Spring 2025 are welcome to apply.
- Are interested in pursuing a career in media arts journalism and/or technology.
- Are able to commit to a summer fellowship that will last a minimum of 10 continuous weeks. The fellowship is parttime up to 24 hours/week. Fellowships generally start in May or June. The fellowship start and end dates will be agreed upon at the time of offer/acceptance.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
Application Requirements:
- Attached Resume detailing work and work experience.
- Attached over Letter in PDF format (do not submit a Word doc) expressing interest in the fellowship and promoting your candidacy including:
- A summary of interest in media arts journalism and/or technology.
- Cite relevant course work and work experience.
- A minimum of 2 written work samples and links relevant work productions examples: websites videos audio productions etc.
- One recommendation or department approval form from a school faculty member (required).
- One recommendation from other work or volunteer supervisor (optional).
- Submit Applications Hearst/Employment Opportunity
Application Process and Deadline
- This is a Summer 2025 fellowship.
- Applications are due on or before 3/24/2025.
- Interviews will be conducted and decisions will be made in April.
- Fellowship is 100 onsite.
- A background check including social media checks will be conducted upon acceptance of offer.
Compensation and Benefits
- The pay is $20 per hour.
- Additional funds may be made available for a transportation stipend as needed. To be determined upon offer and acceptance of position.
Department Descriptions:
Newsroom
Fellows will explore different subdepartments of the newsroom:
Assignment Desk
- Assist team members with content gathering and planning.
- Gather and organize press releases emails phone calls social media and viewer tips.
- Develop and pitch story ideas.
TV News Production
- Writing and formatting scripts for broadcast.
- Shadow reporters or anchors in the field when available.
Digital News Production
- Conduct research and write content for WCVB digital platforms including the WCVB appWCVB.comand various social media platforms.
- Assist with photo and video production.
CityLine
CityLine is Channel 5s awardwinning urban news and feature magazine program. The program focuses on the issues concerns and news affecting the Commonwealths communities of color. The topics can range from social justice inequities to ethnic restaurants and everything in between. Must have knowledge of current local and national events that impact communities of color.
- Learn to research story ideas for weekly show production
- Prescreen and book guests: may include preinterview phone calls to guests or communications with managers
- Assist with field productions
- Learn to write program promotions and instudio interview questions
- Accommodate guests on Thursday morning tape days
- Learn to create smooth transitions between recorded segments
- Learn to write web summaries for upcoming shows
Broadcast Technical Operations
The Technical Operations fellowship resides within WCVBs Engineering department. This includes actual hands on operation of equipment under the observation of permanent tech op staff members. The goal of this fellowship is to expose the student to real world daily technical operations in a television station.
- Control Room/Studio Operations (Floor Direct Robos Audio TD)
- Air Operations (Master Control/Air Assist)
- ENG Receive
- IT
Equipment Use: WCVBTV is a union shop. As the purpose of the fellowship is to gain training in the technical areas students will be allowed to touch and train on the technical equipment. Use of the equipment will be limited and closely supervised and monitored.
Chronicle
Chronicle is WCVBs nightly news magazine and is the longestrunning locally produced news magazine program in the country. Chronicle presents a mix of features on the people places and stories of New England.
Fellows will learn to:
- Conduct research including researching footage from old shows and news tapes as well as via the Internet and phone calls.
- Update repeat shows for reair.
- Answer viewer calls.
- Archive nightly shows.
- Assist producers with logging video footage from shoots
- Fellows may have the opportunity to attend field shoots with producers
Note: There will be a mandatory intern orientation prior to your official first day of work.
Diversity Statement
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures backgrounds perspectives and identities. Thats why behind the scenes we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate and more representative of the communities we serve.
Employment Type
Part-Time
