Interning in Sports Broadcasting

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"I'm Jamal Spencer for Expert Village, here at ABC 3 here in Lansing, and we're going to talk about how to be a successful sports broadcaster. Interns at my station are given a great deal of responsibility. So you have to be on time. It's very key to be on time for anything you do, especially an interview. Subjects hate when you are late to an interview. It makes you look unprofessional and lazy as a reporter. So the same goes for you as an intern, you have to be on time and you have to be responsible. At our station interns do reporting, they write scripts for the newscast, they edit stories for the newscast, they do camera work for the stories that we air on newscasts, they write for a website that we have at our station. So, interns at this station do everything that paid reporters get paid to do. It's very hands on but, we also keep a strict leash on them. We have to let them know, if you mess up there will be consequences and repercussions, nothing too bad but you can only afford to mess up so many times before you get the boot. So, as an intern you have to be thinking. I have to be prepared, I have to be responsible, I have to be on time. And at this station, you will go to stories, you will travel to a sporting events, you will, you might have to give up your weekends so on one Saturday you can go to the Michigan, Michigan State football game and the Lions vs. the Redskins game in D.C. So, as an intern here, we use them in a lot, and a lot of stations do this. You will shoot, edit report and write. That's the main job of a sports intern and if you get a good internship, you will do all of those things."