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, Express News.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.

Be a part of something bigger – Your Headline Awaits.