Fox News Internship in New York City

From Tess
Interning at Fox News Channel in New York City has been a blast so far. I am working in the Northeast Bureau, which includes a group of producers and a director who pitch, write, and edit stories dealing with news happening in the Northeast and all over the world. I move around from producer to producer everyday depending on who is doing something exciting or who needs help. The boring part of the internship all gets done within the first hour—I log videos from 9-10 a.m., which means I watch a video from Fox News and I type it verbatim including the timestamps. After I finish logging, I normally go out on the field with a producer and a reporter to cover stories. So far, I have met Al Sharpton; I have gone to the United Nations to cover a briefing; I have traveled to a few restaurants to interview diners on their thoughts about Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed salt reduction bill; I have interviewed Katharine McPhee and Garth Brooks with the entertainment producer; and I have gone to the Brooklyn courthouse to witness a terror trial (a bail hearing for a man who allegedly conspired with the terrorist on the plane to Detroit).

After I go help report these stories, we return to the office and put them into a package. The most exciting thing that has happened to me, however, was on the first day: I was sent out to take some photos of a billboard in Times Square for a story one of the producers was breaking. They liked my photo so much (even though I don’t see why it was so great) that they aired it on national television and included it on their website (unfortunately they didn’t cite me but it’s still exciting to look at). I’m so thankful to have this privilege and I love the new opportunities and challenges that present themselves every day I am here—you never know what is going to happen in New York City!