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.
This internship is paid through the Stanford Rebele Internship Program. To be eligible, candidates must be current Stanford University students.
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.
About the San Antonio Express-News:
The Express-News is the third largest daily newspaper in Texas and the only daily paper in San Antonio. It serves a metro area of 2.5 million people. By one name or another, it traces its roots in the region to 1865. Over the past three years, the paper has reorganized to focus on digital journalism and has substantially increased the audience for its subscriber website, ExpressNews.com. Over the same period, the Express-News has won a George Polk Award for state reporting, two IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) Awards and numerous regional and state journalism prizes. Express-News photographers were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2015 and again in 2018.
About Hearst Newspapers:
With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP represents a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman and Albany Times Union as well as several digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.
At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.
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As one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies, Hearst has been leading with purpose and integrity and innovating for more than a century. With a mission to inform audiences and improve lives, the company’s portfolio includes global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing the maintenance of jets and helicopters; 35 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; more than 200 magazine editions around the world and ownership in cable television networks A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN.
Leading with purpose, Hearst is always moving forward. With a commitment to the highest quality in our products and services, we’re investing in healthcare solutions to help improve patient outcomes and technology that curbs emissions. Our brands are providing vital analysis, data and software to the global financial services industry; delivering important service and investigative journalism; and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming. And we are dedicated to serving the communities it operates in, both civically and philanthropically.
