Posting Date: 11/04/2025

The One Detroit Intern will support the Detroit Bureau staff, based at the Detroit School of Arts High School, in all phases of our projects, which include: producing our weekly episodes, daily social media content, content creation for our website, and regular online engagement events. Interns will get practical and realistic production and video journalism experience assisting One Detroit’s producer team.

One Detroit is Detroit PBS’s award-winning local news initiative, which has created a national model for community-based television journalism, which seeks to tell the authentic story of Detroit and Southeast Michigan through ongoing engagement and in-depth reporting.

• Attend weekly department meetings, listen, and offer content suggestions for both weekly episodes. Work with the One Detroit producer team and internship supervisor to develop story ideas for semester project.
• Perform research regarding production related content, logistics and locations.
• Go on location field shoots (Electronic Field Production) and assist with in-studio filming to provide production assistance to One Detroit producers.
• Assist Digital Content Generalist in producing social media and blog posts for featured stories on our website.
• Observe One Detroit show edit sessions with opportunities to produce and learn editing techniques.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Excellent oral, written, and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Adobe Premiere Pro and Media Encoder.
• Excellent online research skills.
• General sense of administrative management.
• Familiarity with television production preferred.

• Enrollment in a university or vocational tech training program or recent graduate.
• Pursuing multi-media journalism, film, video production, telecommunications, communications, or business/marketing degree preferred.
• Ability and willingness to work approximately 20 hours per week, minimum 3 day.

• Opportunities to participate in personal and professional development programs.
• Opportunities to serve our mission and community.
• Great work environment.

At the conclusion of the internship, the intern will be able to:

• Media manage.
• Gain familiarity with editing process/video post-production.
• Gain familiarity with journalistic writing.
• Understand video formats for television, online and mobile platforms.
• Conceptualize, research, and pre-production of programs.
• Prepare studio production materials including: rundowns, scripts, and equipment requirements.
• Prepare promotional/community outreach elements.

Intern applicants must be currently enrolled at a college or university, or have recently (within past 6 months) graduated with a relevant degree. The internship program is unpaid and focused on education and training.