Sports Intern

Supports CNN World Sport by researching sports stories, booking guests, assisting with interviews, producing digital content, and contributing to TV and online sports coverage.

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Your New Role...

World Sport is CNN International’s flagship sports show that runs multiple times a day, seven days a week. Our show focuses on sports news, big-name interviews and exploring themes like racism, gender inequality and athlete activism as we seek to go beyond the headlines.

The key roles for our intern are to help identify and pitch interesting stories, book guests, help research for interviews and segments, and produce cross-platform content including writes and video edits for CNN.com.

The ideal candidate should have a broad knowledge in international sports news (including US-specific sports), an ability to deliver to deadlines, be a strong communicator and somebody who thrives collaborating in a team environment.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Flagging sports news stories and building out planning documents 

• Supporting reporters, writers and producers by researching for stories, interviews and live segments 

• Building graphics for air 

• Guest booking and pitching ideas 

• Supporting the London Producer / Network on London assignments

• Sourcing images and footage for edits 

• Writing alerts for programming and digital

• On occasion, writing stories for CNN.com

Qualifications & Experience...

• Undergraduate or postgraduate journalism degree (not essential), vocational training and/or ability to illustrate a portfolio of work / content (eg: blogs, podcasts, YouTube Channel etc)

• Working in team environments, ideally to strict deadlines

• Ability to work quickly, managing time and multiple priorities effectively

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Adobe Premiere experience (preferable)

The Internship:

• Salary: £29,000 p/a (pro rata)

• Contract Length: 6 months   

• Start Date: 1st September 2026

• You will gain hands-on experience working on business-critical projects.  

• You will have access to personal and professional development courses, executive speakers’ series, special screenings and more.  

• You will be part of our Early Talent network of over 100 interns & apprentices, meaning you will have an important support network of other students, graduates and apprentices and plenty of opportunities to socialise! 

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.