How to Intern as a Sports Reporter

Video Transcript

"I'm Jamal Spencer for Expert Village here at ABC 3 here in Lansing and we're going to talk about how to be successful Sports Broadcaster. This clip is about interning in a sports department. As an intern, a lot of people get the idea that you're going to be getting coffee and picking up the bosses dry-cleaning and that may be true. So if you're going to be an intern, you have to ask yourself how bad you want to bring it to the industry. Some bosses are jerks and they'll have you do grunt jobs and keep you from actually learning. A lot of places are hands on where you'll go out and you'll do a story on your first week on the job. So as an intern you have to have the mentality, expect everything, I'll be able to handle anything, so that way you'll be a little more comfortable if anything comes up. Now as an intern you will be given jobs like typing. Go do this. You'll be given the grunt work that the people that used to be interns don't want to do anymore. So as a sports intern, be prepared to do all the grunt work, but know that the benefits will be great. Quite often a reporter will say, "Hey I want to take you on this story", and you'll meet famous people on your first day on the job. So keep that in mind. You have to know how to act as an intern not to go "wow, there's Jerry Rice". You have to be poised and keep it under control, but you will be very excited. That's the best part about being an intern is that everything is new. So as a sports intern you will be taking on stories, you will be given the grunt work, but it will all pay off because sooner or not you're hard work will pay off, you'll be successful. They will realize that "hey this kid can report, this kid can do all these things that we ask him to do" and you'll be successful. So as an intern, remember, you may start off doing things you don't want to do, but you will end up where you want to be."