ABC News Audience Engagement Intern, Spring 2027
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10163290 Emplacement New York, New York, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment Television Date de publication 21/10/2026Résumé du poste:
About the Role & Program
The ABC News Audience Development team is responsible for creating, distributing, curating, and optimizing ABC News content across digital platforms, including ABCNews.com, mobile apps, major social media platforms, search, video, and other distribution channels. The team plays a critical role in connecting audiences with breaking news and original journalism while identifying opportunities to grow engagement across existing and emerging platforms.
As an Audience Development Intern, you will gain hands-on experience at the intersection of journalism, audience strategy, analytics, and digital storytelling. Working alongside experienced audience development professionals, you will learn how editorial judgment, data insights, and experimentation help drive audience growth and engagement. The ideal candidate is passionate about news and current events, follows digital media trends, and is interested in understanding how audiences discover and consume content across platforms.
This internship is a full-time, six-month commitment in the New York, New York area from January 2027 - June 2027
What You Will Do
On any given day, you will support audience development initiatives across ABC News digital platforms, including ABCNews.com, mobile apps, search, social media, video, and other distribution channels. You will help curate content experiences across owned platforms, support audience growth strategies, and assist in distributing content to external partners to help maximize visibility during major news events. You will contribute to headline testing efforts, monitor news, search, and social trends, and help identify emerging platforms, formats, and audience behaviors. This role offers the opportunity to strengthen editorial judgment, analytical thinking, collaboration, and digital storytelling skills while gaining exposure to how data and audience insights inform content strategy.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Experience with journalism, news reporting, news production, digital media, or content creation through coursework, internships, campus media, or related projects.
- Understanding of the 24/7 news cycle, current events, and breaking news coverage.
- Demonstrated writing and editing skills through coursework, internships, campus media, or published content samples.
- Experience using social media platforms, digital publishing tools, or content distribution channels through academic, extracurricular, internship, or personal projects.
- Familiarity with audience metrics, analytics, or data-informed decision-making through coursework, projects, or prior experience.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments, meet deadlines, and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- Experience conducting research or analyzing audience, engagement, or content performance data.
- Familiarity with social media management, content publishing, or audience analytics tools.
- Experience creating content for digital, social, or campus media platforms.
- Experience working in a newsroom, media organization, student publication, or related environment.
- Familiarity with SEO, headline writing, or audience engagement strategies.
- Interest in emerging digital platforms and evolving audience consumption behaviors.
Education
- Junior or Senior year preferred.
- Major or coursework in Journalism, Broadcast Journalism, Communications, Digital Media, Media Studies, Marketing, or a related field preferred.
Eligibility Requirements & Program Information
Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:
- Be enrolled in an accredited college/university pursuing a degree taking at least one class at time of application OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship.
- Current Disney Interns, College, International, or Culinary Program Participants: You may only work for ONE consecutive year (12 months) in any combination of an internship and/or program.
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Possess unrestricted work authorization
Additional Information
- Able to have a consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the internship
- Fully available from January 2027 through June 2027
- Fully available from Monday through Friday, 40 hours each week
- Able to provide own housing for the duration of the internship program in the New York, New York area
- Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work in the New York, New York area
Materials Requested:
- A portfolio review is required for this position. For full consideration, please include a link to your portfolio on your résumé. Applications without a portfolio link on the résumé will not be considered a completed application packet and may not be fully considered for the position. Please visit our support site or additional information.
The pay rate for this role in New York is $23.00 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.
Sur Disney Entertainment Television:
Disney Entertainment Television est une collection de marques de contenu renommées de The Walt Disney Company qui créent des programmes originaux de divertissement et d’actualités pour les plateformes de streaming Disney+, Hulu et Star de la société, ainsi que ses réseaux de diffusion et de câble. Son vaste portefeuille inclut ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations, Disney Branded Television, Freeform, FX, Hulu Originals, National Geographic Content et Onyx Collective, en plus des Disney Television Studios, qui comprennent 20th Television, 20th Television Animation, ABC Signature et Walt Disney Television Alternative. Délivrant plus de 4 500 heures de programmation par an réparties sur plus de 300 programmes de tous genres, les marques créatives de Disney Entertainment Television sont à l’avant-garde de la narration révolutionnaire, tout en captivant le public et en suscitant des éloges. En 2023, la programmation d’excellence de Disney Entertainment Television a remporté 163 nominations aux Emmy® dans les catégories en journée, en prime time, actualités et documentaires, ainsi que dans les catégories enfants et famille.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & Intl , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment Television.
Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & Intl est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.