CNBC Production & Editorial Internships – Academic Year 2025-2026

If you think all the fun only happens in summer, think again! As an NBCUniversal Academic Year intern, you’ll get immersed in exciting work, experience our unique NBCU culture, and feel the real support and guidance for 2 whole semesters. The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day. In addition to our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our Academic Year interns: Paid time off for mental health, school exams, and personal holidays. Robust networking, learning and development opportunities. Complimentary Peacock subscription during your internship. Free admission to Universal Parks to use during your internship. CNBC: At CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, you’ll have access to great perks and amenities: Sweat it out -- Free onsite fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment, basketball court and running course, plus daily group classes Eat up -- Gourmet cafeteria with daily specials plus soup and salad bars Unwind -- Massage therapy, ping pong tables, foosball Extras -- Dry cleaning, shoe shining and sneak peeks Don’t have a car? No problem! We offer free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City. Academic Year Recruitment Timeline: April 21 – May 9: Applications Open (may close early 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 Academic Year Internship Program: Applications Close: May 9th at 11:59pm ET. Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible – applications could close earlier due to applicant volume! Program Dates: September 15, 2025 – April 17, 2026 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 Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 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. 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. Areas of placement may include, but are not limited to: Production Fast Money – Our intern gets the unique opportunity to gain journalism experience in both live TV and digital production. Work closely with our team to help produce segments, participate in editorial meetings and be in the live control room during the show. Our intern also helps produce digital program “ETF Edge” and gets the chance to write articles for CNBC.com. The internship is ideal for students are interested in covering business news and have taken broadcast journalism and/or digital news writing courses. We also like to see students involved with their school’s newspapers, TV and/or radio stations. Mad Money – Interns become intimately involved with our production on their first day with CNBC. You’ll interact with our legion of fans (we call them Cramericans!) and find informed, excited callers with questions for our show each day. You’ll get hands-on with news management tools like iNews and Dali as you build elements for our show. Working on the “Mad Money” team will acclimate you with video editing programs like Stratus and CapCut. You’ll also contribute to Mad Money’s social media strategy, optimizing our content and working on new, innovative content blasts to our fans each day. Editorial Editorial/Breaking News – CNBC.com is offering an immersive writing and editing internship on the digital breaking-news desk. Interns will edit and produce news stories from wires, CNBC reporters and partners. Interns will write quick flips as well as original stories throughout the semester. We’re looking for highly motivated students who love the fast pace of a newsroom and have a serious interest in business news and online journalism. Strategic Content – The Strategic Content department is CNBC’s only cross-platform team, creating editorial content for on-air and online (CNBC.com) publication. Our department produces a packed editorial calendar of special reports covering core CNBC topics: the labor market, technology, corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership and more. A Strategic Content internship provides aspiring journalists with the opportunity to write for the web, support the production of sponsorships for TV and learn about the podcasting space. Social Media – The intern will work with the U.S. editorial social media team to help manage CNBC’s social presence on our flagship accounts. You’ll work closely with social media editors to help keep our readers up to date on the latest business news, grow CNBC’s audience, and craft our social voice. You’ll get hands-on experience writing and

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