Summer Intern - Digital Audience
Hearst Newspapers
San Antonio, TXThis is a Part Time Unpaid Internship
Audience intern opening at the San Antonio Express-News
The Express-News seeks a summer audience intern on our digital team to report, write and produce content aimed at engaging our online audiences in novel ways. The internship offers an excellent learning opportunity for someone interested in a career in digital journalism.
Title: Audience intern
What will you do?
You will write, produce and package articles built within Hearst Newspapers' content management system. You will also utilize Hearsts' extensive library of interactive web pages to produce visually engaging journalism, including quizzes, visual essays, top lists and guides.
A secondary focus of the internship entails audience production tasks, such as sending app push notifications, composing targeted email alerts and newsletters, and creating and publishing social media posts.
A candidate suited for this role will have experience meeting tight deadlines and turning around daily news stories as well as a keen eye for what engages digital audiences.
No coding experience is necessary.
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Additional Information
The Express-News is the third largest daily newspaper in Texas and the only daily paper in San Antonio, serving a metro area of 2.5 million people. Tracing its roots to 1865, the paper has reorganized over the past three years to focus on digital journalism, significantly increasing the audience for its subscriber website, ExpressNews.com. During this time, the Express-News has received a George Polk Award for state reporting, two IRE Awards, and numerous regional and state journalism prizes, with its photographers being finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2015 and 2018. HNP, which employs 2,500 people nationwide, represents a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including notable titles such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, and Austin American-Statesman, along with several digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services, and entertainment businesses like King Features Syndicate. HNP is committed to investing in innovative storytelling methods, expanding newsrooms, diversifying tools, and evolving platforms to support the millions who rely on its journalism each month.
