NBC News Digital Editorial Internships – Summer 2025
Summer 2025 Internship Program: Applications Close: December 6th at 11:59pm ET. Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible – applications could close earlier due to applicant volume! Program Dates: June 2 – August 8, 2025 Time Commitment: 40 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need. Format: Opportunities listed will require an intern to work from New York, NY. 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, the locations (listed below) you are open to for internships, 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, MSNBC and CNBC 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. MSNBC is the #2 network across all of cable and is the premiere destination for breaking news, award-winning content, in-depth analysis and informed perspectives. CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage, business and general news content, and primetime reality programming, consumed by more than 557 million people per month across all platforms. 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: Commerce 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. Select Money – responsible for assisting editors in maintaining our SEO-driven content and writing articles on personal finance topics, helping develop a database of the newest financial products on the market, and distributing and promoting content. Editorial Digital Documentary – responsible for assisting in pre- and post-production including research, gathering, and cataloguing material from NBC archives. 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 researching, reporting, and writing timely, in-depth original features on a wide range of health topics for the website. The intern will be asked to pitch ideas, interview experts about medical studies, and identify 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, MSNBC 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.