Audience Intern, Summer 2027

Hearst; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

12-week internship

Job summary

The San Francisco Chronicle is seeking a Summer 2027 Audience Intern to join our digital producers and audience editors. This paid, 12-week internship embeds with cross-functional teams to learn how we engage readers across our website, app, and social channels. Hourly rate is $20.50/hr. Deadline to apply is October 10, 2026.

Requirements: Full-time, based in San Francisco, with weekday schedule; weekend/evening duties may be required as news warrants.

Qualifications

• Enrolled or recent graduate with newsroom/publication experience preferred.
• Interest in audience engagement and social media strategy.
• Willingness to work full-time in San Francisco during summer.

Responsibilities

• Receive training and mentoring from editors and colleagues across departments.
• Draft social media posts.
• Create digital-first content including articles, video, and channel-specific content.

Skills

Social media management

Video editing

Photo editing

Content writing

Education

College publication experience

Tools

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

Job description

Audience Intern, Summer 2027

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 who produce our website and app, manage our social channels, multimedia initiatives and newsletters and you will gain wide exposure to how we engage readers, listeners and viewers across platforms. Hourly rate is $20.50/hr. Deadline to apply is October 10, 2026.

Requirements: This position is full-time, based in San Francisco and likely Monday-to-Friday. Weekend, evening and holiday work may be required as news warrants.

Duties:

• Receive training and mentoring from editors and colleagues across departments.
• Draft social media posts.
• 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.

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.

HNP Overview:

With 2,500 employees across the nation, Hearst Newspapers (HNP) represents a network of 28 daily and 50 weekly publications, including the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany). Our portfolio also includes several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites such as Chron., CT Insider, MySA and SFGATE, along with marketing services businesses like Medium Giant and entertainment brands such as King Features Syndicate.

At HNP, we’re investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories — growing newsrooms, diversifying tools and 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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