Job Description

LINK nky is looking for a creative, driven Video Intern to join our newsroom team. This is a hands-on opportunity for a student or emerging journalist to gain real-world experience producing engaging short-form video content for social media and digital platforms.

Pay : $17 an hour, up to 20 hours a week

Term of Internship : May 5, 2025 through August 22, 2025

What You’ll Do:

• Shoot and edit video using a smartphone or other accessible gear to support our news coverage and feature reporting.
• Create stand-alone video stories that bring Northern Kentucky’s people, places, and issues to life.
• Produce content optimized for platforms like Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts.
• Work closely with reporters and editors to identify the best visual storytelling opportunities.
• Help post and distribute video content across LINK nky’s platforms.

What We’re Looking For:

• Someone who’s comfortable shooting and editing video on a smartphone (experience with apps like CapCut, Adobe Premiere Rush, or similar is a plus).
• A strong sense of what makes a compelling, visual story.
• Interest in journalism, community storytelling, and digital media.
• Self-motivated, creative, and eager to experiment with new formats.

What You Can Expect from Us:

• A sixteen-week paid internship
• Training and support on LINK's internal style and our culture
• A giant newsroom full of tiny desks in beautiful downtown Covington, KY

LINK is an equal opportunity employer. LINK prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. LINK conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

Mission : LINK Media advances Northern Kentucky in the region, the commonwealth and the nation by providing transformative coverage of the news of the day with focus on the deeper issues that matter most to our community. 

Guiding Principles:

We are :

Solutions-Focused : We don’t just report the news of the day. We dig deeper, informing our audience about how our community might solve its biggest issues. 

Unapologetic NKY Fans : We believe in this community—in what it is today, and what it has the potential to become. We want to see this community advance, and we understand the part that we play in that advancement. 

Inclusive : We explore the issues that affect all of Northern Kentucky, and give a voice to the diverse corners of our community, whether that diversity is economic, political, geographic or otherwise. 

Good Stewards : It is our responsibility to make good use of our resources and to maintain a sustainable business model, so that we may serve the community long into the future.  

Independent : We do not make endorsements, or publish our own opinions, about the issues that are facing Northern Kentucky. In addition to our reporting, outside opinions from multiple viewpoints will be sought, and clearly marked as such, in order to provide the robust debate that our community needs to make critical decisions about our collective future.

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