Cover MLB or MLS teams in your city this season on your phone with videos from your point of view for our social news sports network as a mobile video journalist. This program can be customized to meet your school requirements for credit from April thru the World Series or MLS Cup. This is for journalism, broadcast, digital media and sports management students in MLB and MLS cities. 
Fan Media will develop and collaborate with mobile video journalists for social news coverage throughout the season. This is an opportunity to be on-camera, cover high-profile sports news, build your mobile demo reel and have fun.
Fan Media is a social news sports network of former players, fans, and journalists who cover sports news and teams on their phones with videos from their point of view, and compete each season to earn money, official status and get paid right on their phones.
Our world-class iPhone app and web site (Android) have 270 team channels for NBA, NCAA, NFL, NHL, MLB & MLS news.
Fan Media is the first and only sports news network to do all of its news gathering and publishing solely by mobile phones.
Interns will provide 45-second videos covering their city’s MLB or MLS team on a weekly basis, including: news reporting, commentary, criticism, analysis, fan interviews, moments, trending stories and public opinion. Fan Media Network will provide a correspondent kit with best practices for production quality and editorial direction.
Students will learn mobile video journalism in the field and videos can be shared from our app and web site into the News Feeds of Facebook and Twitter. The best videos get featured on Fan Media’s social brand pages.
This program is available to students who are in the following cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis. New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa Bay and Washington D.C.
Interested students can apply by installing the app http://apple.co/1HhY2QQ or making a profile on the website http://fanmedianetwork.com/, and making one video 45-second video about your local MLB or MLS team. It can be a season preview video or any of the ideas listed above. We will contact you in the app or web site from our Newsroom to set you up from there.