Looking to ace your upcoming academic year? As an NBCUniversal Academic Year intern, you’ll work on real projects, be part of our collaborative culture, and get the support you need to grow - across two full semesters. Our Internship Program is all about impact, giving you the chance to contribute to meaningful work while building skills that matter. If you’re curious, driven, and excited about media, entertainment, and technology, we provide an environment designed to help you learn and grow every day.
In addition to all of our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our Academic Year interns:
- Paid time off for mental health, academic exams, and personal holidays.
- Robust networking, learning and professional development opportunities.
- Complimentary Peacock subscription for the duration of the internship.
- Free admission to Universal Parks to use during your internship.
- Access to mental health resources, including counseling sessions.
Academic Year Internship Program Details
Program Dates: September 21, 2026 – April 23, 2027
Time Commitment: 16-24 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need. We will do our best to accommodate course schedules.
Format: Opportunities listed will require an intern to work from New York, NY.
Academic Year Recruitment Timeline
April 20: Applications open
May 8: Applications close at 11:59pm ET (we recommend you submit your application as soon as possible – applications may close earlier due to applicant volume!)
Early May – Mid June: First round video interviews
Mid June – Mid July: Second round interviews
Throughout July: Selected candidates receive offers
To Apply:
- Submit a one-page resume that outlines your work experience, accomplishments, and your graduation month and year.
- Submit a cover letter that highlights your passion for NBCUniversal and your top areas of interest (opportunities listed below).
- Upload a transcript (unofficial transcripts are fine) that confirms your status as an actively enrolled student in a degree-granting program.
More Americans watch NBC News than any news organization in the world. NBC News’ leading and award-winning television news broadcasts include TODAY, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and Dateline NBC. The rapidly-growing NBC News Digital Group – including its streaming news services NBC News NOW and TODAY All Day – and the network’s award-winning original podcast and audio unit provide continuous content to consumers wherever they are, whenever they want it.
Areas of placement may include, but are not limited to:
Production
- TODAY – work directly with producers on stories/segments, with Production Managers in the control room and green room, log tapes, conduct research on assigned topics.
- Weekend TODAY – assist producers with research and gathering content for upcoming segments, compile different news stories to pitch to producers for segments, log and transcribe interviews for producers and record music hit times for music cues.
- Nightly News – log video, research for stories, answer newsroom phones, pitch story ideas, daily distribution of rundown/scripts.
- Weekend Nightly News – log video, research for stories, answer newsroom phones, pitch story ideas, daily distribution of rundown/scripts.
- Dateline – plan for morning editorial/pitch meeting: log shows, build slide decks, research stories. Log b roll, transcripts and help prepare for edit.
- Specials – compile research for editorial preparation, compile research packets, select and compile footage & stills for on-air elements, design and manage graphics, print and deliver scripts.
- Investigative Unit – researching, filing records requests, analyzing data, organizing media, and assisting on local shoots.
- Booking Unit – assist the team with guest research and upcoming events, manage lists/pitch packets, support the team with in-studio guests/shoots.
- Business Technology & Innovation Unit – assist digital, television, and investigative teams with research, newsgathering, and story production, monitor news outlets for breaking news, pitch enterprise news stories.
- Network Desk – assist during breaking news by making calls to relevant sources, by listening to radio traffic by EMS or local police, by logging press conferences and by checking social media postings from witnesses and others. Assist w/the logistics of sending NBC News teams (correspondents, producers, crews, engineers, etc) to cover the news on location.
- Audio Unit – assist with the soup-to-nuts production of the ‘Here’s the Scoop’ podcast, from researching stories and gathering audio, to booking guests and writing scripts/headlines, to editing and posting the show to platforms. You will be covering a range of stories from breaking news to investigations and feature topics.
- NBC News Now – research and fact check stories, assist in editing video and graphics, pitch stories for daily and future segments, mine and edit video and sound.
- Climate/Weather Unit – Forecast research, WSI Tru Vu Max graphic creation and updating, researching and presenting information on Climate change and Climate solutions.
Commerce Editorial
- Shop TODAY – responsible for helping manage the Shop TODAY social editorial calendars, writing multiple social-first shopping stories a week, assisting in larger projects and initiatives and keeping track of social posting and reporting data.
- Select News – responsible for building articles in our CMS, tracking editorial workflow, helping shape new copy flows and more. You will also have the opportunity to write new e-commerce content for the site, as well as update existing content.
Editorial
- Digital Documentary – responsible for assisting in pre- and post-production including research, asset gathering, and cataloguing material from NBC archives. Candidate should be comfortable identifying and sourcing user generated content, and an interest in visual investigations and analysis is encouraged. You will also be pitching stories and assisting in story development.
- Digital Platforms – responsible for marketing promotion plans and alerts for top stories. You will be writing different variations of headlines for stories to optimize click-through rate and engagement.
- Digital Tech – responsible for pitching, writing, and reporting stories about the world of technology and the internet, from the latest developments in AI technology to the way TikTok is transforming digital culture.
- Digital Health & Medical – responsible for reporting and writing timely, in-depth original features on a wide range of health topics for the website. The intern will be interviewing experts about medical studies, pitching story ideas, and identifying trends in lifestyle and wellness, including nutrition and women’s and men’s health.
- Today.com – responsible for assisting editors across TODAY.com’s news/trending and lifestyle teams, and writing for sections including Pop Culture, Health, Food, Parents, Style and TMRW.
Social
- Social Newsgathering – responsible for using digital platforms to find user-generated content, verify social media-sourced content, interview sources and obtain information for the network's coverage. You will be covering a range of stories from breaking news to investigations and feature topics.
NBC News Social, TODAY Social –You will be responsible for helping drive social media production and publication to multiple social media accounts. You will be writing headlines, editing video and graphics, and distributing content across social media platforms.