Summer Intern - Audience

Full Time Unpaid Internship
Audience Intern Summer 2023

The San Francisco Chronicle is looking for a summer intern to join our team of digital producers and audience editors. In this paid, 12-week summer internship, you will embed with the cross-functional teams that produce sfchronicle.com, manage our social channels and plan our multimedia initiatives. You will gain wide exposure to how we engage readers, listeners and viewers across platforms.

All college students are encouraged to apply, preference is given to students who are either studying at or have recently completed a degree at a Bay Area four-year or community college.

Requirements:

These positions are full-time, based in San Francisco, and the typical workweek likely will be Monday through Friday. Weekend, evening and holiday work may be required as news warrants. The summer internships typically begin in June and last through August, but there is some flexibility to accommodate college schedules. Applications are due by Oct. 14, 2022.

Duties:
• Receive training and mentoring from editors and colleagues across departments.
• Draft social media posts for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
• Train and work in the online CMS to produce digital article pages.
• Create digital-first content: Depending on the candidate's skills, this may include writing articles, shooting and/or editing digital video and creating content targeted to specific social media channels like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

What we're looking for:
• Overall: Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with content ranging from breaking news to food guides to sports. Interest in audience engagement work, especially social media strategy and digital-first content.?
• Multimedia skills a plus: Video and photo editing experience, or interest in creating graphics, photo or video content for social media.
• Newsroom experience: Strong college publication experience or previous internships preferred, but not required.

Vaccination Requirement: As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Newspapers requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst Newspapers will consider requests for reasonable accommodation on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Please include in your application a portfolio of your work or links to your designs, along with brief explanations of your role in the execution of the pieces. Your role could include brainstorming, researching, art directing collaborators, project coordination, and design and coding. Applications are due by Oct. 14, 2022.

About The San Francisco Chronicle:?

The San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfchronicle.com) is the largest newspaper in Northern California and the second largest on the West Coast. Acquired by the Hearst Corporation in 2000, The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 by Charles and Michael de Young and has been awarded six Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic excellence.

Our award-winning journalists provide insight into the people and events shaping the Bay Area, investigate wrongdoing and waste, and deliver the quickest and most reliable coverage of breaking news in Northern California.

Join our team!