KETV-TV Digital Content Intern

Job Description

Format: In-Person

Internship Duration: June 2nd to September 11th

Deadline to Submit Resume: Friday, February 27th

KETV-TV, Omaha's News Leader, has an opening for a Digital Content Intern to work in our fast-paced tv newsroom team. This internship will consist of creating and managing content for the station's digital platforms, including the website, app and social media platforms. You will be a part of a digital team writing articles and creating videos and infographics for local news, weather, sports, entertainment, and community activities with deadlines that change with the news cycle.

This role is in-person 5 days a week.

This intern will be part of the Neurodiversity@Hearst program, a paid, full-time 15-week internship program for neurodivergent/autistic talent interested in enhancing their technical skills. From June 2nd to September 11th, 2026 interns will participate in an immersive, hands-on experience at a leading global, diversified media, information, and services company. This cohort will include interns at Hearst Television, Fitch Ratings, and Hearst Corporate.

Responsibilities

• Help research and write articles so that they display correctly formatted on the app, website and social media
• Ensure the station publishes factually correct data in collaboration with reporters and assignment editors (meticulous attention to detail is needed)
• Regularly clip and post local news and weather forecast videos
• Write text to support videos posted from the weekend
• Learn how to quickly write concise, engaging and accurate headlines, app push alerts and e-mail text that will entice our viewers to click on our articles/open the station's app
• Monitor other media outlets' digital and social media platforms to cultivate potential content ideas
• Assist digital team with aspects of video production including holding the camera and r microphone during shoots

Skills

• Can independently write, edit and publish news articles on multiple deadlines
• Experience with or interest in using content management systems, such as Uplynk and websites akin to Word Press, to update website pp
• Knowledge of how to create and edit images in Photo Shop for social graphics and collages
• Interest in or knowledge of measuring performance numbers using Google Analytics

Preferred Experience

The following experiences are preferred, but not required. We encourage candidates with interest in learning new technologies to apply, even if they don't meet all the preferences.

• Knowledge of how to create and edit videos in Adobe Premiere. This will enable the applicant to repurpose video from the newscast and r photographers in the field to create short videos for social media.
• Fast transcription skills (typing speakers' comments from video, sometimes live video, for publishing)
• Interest in or knowledge of measuring performance numbers using Parse.ly and Social News Desk
• Experience with or interest in formatting artificial intelligence to complete word-processing and other tasks

Qualifications

• Experience with digital and social media strategy
• Interest in journalism, digital marketing, writing or editing
• Ability to work under tight deadlines collaboratively with our team
• Working knowledge of Google Analytics
• College degree with background in journalism or communication is desired, but not required

Value in Action

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.

About Hearst Television

Hearst Television (HTV) owns and/or operates 35 television and two radio stations serving 27 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. HTV is recognized as one of the industry's premier broadcasting companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service.

About Hearst

Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group;
Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19% of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York);

more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment…