CNN FactCheck Internships: ATL - Fall 2025

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CNN FactCheck Internships: ATL -Fall 2025

• Application Deadline: Sunday, August 24th* 
• *Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible – applications could close earlier due to applicant volume!*

Your New Role   

We have multiple CNN FactCheck internship opportunities available. By applying to this posting, you will be considered for all internship opportunities within this area. These internships will be located in the ATL area. The selected interns will be expected to join us in the office on a regular cadence based on the intern manager’s in office schedule. 

FactCheck is responsible for news group-wide script and story approval, including investigative scripts, documentaries, and sensitive and controversial stories. They ensure that stories meet high standards of storytelling, clarity, accuracy, quality, fairness, and balance while avoiding libel, defamation and use infringement issues. FactCheck editors sign off on TV and original online reporting, as well as other sensitive editorial matters. Researchers on The Row fact-check each piece before it is cleared for edit. 

Your Role Accountabilities 

• Fact check scripts, digital articles, and long-form stories.
• Review pieces for editorial accuracy, fairness, and balance.
• Field editorial requests from CNN correspondents around the world by phone, email, and in-person, and help track projects.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Interest in news and journalism
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Candidates should be pursuing a career in journalism.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid reporting and research skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Well versed in current events, aware and interested in domestic and international news.
• Must be actively enrolled in an accredited college or university degree program for the full duration of the internship (proof of enrollment required)
• ​Must be a rising Junior or Senior Undergrad Student (18 years or older)
• Warner Bros. Discovery will only consider candidates who are presently authorized to work for any employer in the United States and who will not require work visa sponsorship from Warner Bros. Discovery now or in the future in order to retain their authorization to work in the United States. Candidates currently on any student or exchange visa, including F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, J-1, M-1, etc., will not be eligible for the internship program.

What to know before applying: 

The duration of the program is 10 weeks  

• Program dates:
  • Start Date: October 6th
  • End Date: December 12th

Interns will be expected to work 16-24 hours per week in a hybrid capacity. 

Our internships are paid opportunities with a competitive hourly wage. Credit is not required; however, we will provide the necessary documentation for school credit if desired. Relocation is not provided.  

Interviewing will take place from August through mid-September. A WBD team member will contact you if your experiences and interests match an open internship position. Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to give individual status updates. 

About Our Internship Program 

WBD's Internship Program is designed to nurture students professionally and personally. We attract the country’s boldest and brightest students for paid, for-credit, real-world internship experiences in the entertainment, tech, sports, news and media industries. We offer career-defining opportunities to learn valuable skills that will help you prepare for a successful future.