Data Reporting Intern, Summer 2027
The San Francisco Chronicle is looking for a summer intern to join our Data team, which develops on quick-turn, graphics-focused stories, interactive projects, and data-driven deep dives. This intern will receive training and mentoring, but will also hit the ground running, covering a variety of stories from the office and in the field. There will be opportunities to pursue projects aimed at engaging our audience and to work closely with reporting teams throughout the newsroom.
The successful candidate will work quickly but responsibly on data stories that help readers understand and explore their communities through unique reporting, data analysis, and interactive graphics creation. This paid 12-week internship typically lasts from June to August. Hourly rate: $20.50.
What the data reporter will do:
- Report and write graphics- and data-driven articles for our digital and print editions.
- Conceive story ideas and work with editors and developers to enhance our storytelling.
- Collaborate with newsroom reporters to produce unique, high-impact journalism.
- Create assets to help promote and distribute the team's work.
What it will take to be successful:
- Strong news judgment, creativity, and meticulousness.
- A dedication to organization and documentation.
- Desire and ability to learn on the job.
- Ability to report stories and write and build quickly while keeping the strictest commitment to fairness and accuracy.
- Ability to work with multiple, large datasets, preferably using Python, R, or similar coding languages.
- Knowledge of current multimedia storytelling and desire to experiment with new ways of engaging readers.
- Ability to collaborate with all newsroom teams and work in a fast-changing news environment.
- Plus: Web development or data visualization experience.
- Plus: Mapping or GIS skills.
Requirements:
This position will be full-time, based in the Bay Area for summer 2026. Weekend, evening, and holiday work may be required as news warrants. All college students, including community college students or students who will have recently completed their associate's or bachelor's degree, are encouraged to apply.
Please include in your application:
- A resume or CV
- A cover letter of less than one page explaining why you are a good fit for this position
- Relevant "clips:" work samples or a portfolio if you have them
Deadline to apply is October 10, 2026.
About The San Francisco Chronicle and SFChronicle.com:
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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Skills Required
- Currently enrolled in college, including community college, or recently completed an associate's or bachelor's degree
- Strong news judgment, creativity, and meticulousness
- Organization and documentation skills
- Ability and desire to learn on the job
- Ability to report, write, and build quickly while maintaining fairness and accuracy
- Ability to work with multiple large datasets, preferably using Python, R, or similar coding languages
- Knowledge of current multimedia storytelling
- Ability to collaborate with newsroom teams in a fast-changing news environment
- Web development or data visualization experience
- Mapping or GIS skills
- Full-time availability for the summer internship
- Availability for weekend, evening, and holiday work as news warrants
- Resume or CV, cover letter, and relevant clips or portfolio
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
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