Audience Intern, Summer 2027

Hearst; United States; On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

The San Francisco Chronicle is seeking an Audience Intern for Summer 2027 in San Francisco. This paid, 12-week internship embeds you with cross-functional teams producing our website and app, managing social channels, and newsletters to engage readers across platforms.

You'll work Monday–Friday with possible weekend and evening shifts. Training from editors, social post creation, and digital-first content production are key components of the role.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a college degree in journalism, communications, or a related field.
• Strong written and editing skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to draft social media posts and support multimedia content.

Responsibilities

• Receive training and mentoring from editors across departments.
• Draft social media posts for multiple platforms.
• Create digital-first content, including articles, video, and graphics for social media.

Skills

Social media strategy

Video editing

Content creation

Newsroom experience

Education

College student

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.

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.

Be part of something bigger - Your Headline Awaits