Audience Producer Intern
Hearst Communications, Inc. - Norwalk, Connecticut, us, 06860Work at Hearst Communications, Inc.
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Overview
We’re looking for a collaborative, organized and thoughtful Audience Intern for an 8 to 10 week paid part-time internship embedded in our newsroom.
The audience team oversees, manages and creates content for several daily news sites. Audience team members write alerts and social media posts, build special projects and curate and package stories from multiple sources.
Depending upon the intern’s area of expertise, they will embed with a team leader to learn best practices for a platform or platforms to grow their expertise and contribute to the newsroom’s goals of serving more readers with impactful and engaging journalism.
Duties and responsibilities could include:
Working collaboratively with audience team members to curate, package and elevate stories and headlines across platforms that engage and retain local readers
Crafting push and email alerts or social media posts
Reporting and producing timely stories and/or videos on trending topics
Taking on a small special project in collaboration with other journalists
Qualifications:
Strong writing, editing and verbal communication skills
Some college experience, preferably in an English, communications or related field
Organized and detail-oriented with a proven ability to effectively juggle multiple tasks
Ability to speak a second language like Spanish a plus
To apply:Send a cover letter, resume and clips for review.
HCMG is committed to growing and retaining a more diverse workforce that better reflects the communities we serve. We strongly encourage all people of working age, who are traditionally underrepresented in media to apply, including women, people of color, applicants with disabilities, those from the LGBTQ+ community and veterans.
This internship can be based in either Norwalk or Meriden and is not eligible for remote candidates.
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