Audience Intern, Summer 2027

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

Job summary

The San Francisco Chronicle invites applications for a paid Audience Intern for Summer 2027. Based in San Francisco, you will join digital producers and audience editors to learn how we engage readers across websites and apps.

This 12-week internship offers hands-on training, exposure to social channels, newsletters, and multimedia projects, with weekend and evening shifts as needed by news cycles. You will gain experience in content creation, social strategy, and audience analytics while

Qualifications

• Paid 12-week summer internship in San Francisco.
• Join a team of digital producers and audience editors.
• Strong interest in audience engagement across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Draft social media posts.
• Create digital-first content including writing, video, and social media content.
• Receive training and mentoring from editors and colleagues.

Skills

Audience engagement

Social media strategy

Multimedia editing assistance

Education

Experience with college publications or internships

Tools

Video editing

Photo editing

Content creation for social media

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.

Join our team!

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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