High School Sports Intern
Join our SportsDay team as a fall intern covering high school football and other sports.
Job Description: The intern will be a member of The Dallas Morning News’ award-winning sports staff. Reporting assignments will be a mix of daily and enterprise coverage, mostly high school football, but there will be opportunities to cover college and professional sports, as well as general assignment news. Weekend work is required. A cover letter and résumé with references are required with all applications. Applicants should send no more than five published clips, and if sending links, please include a username and password.
What will you do?
● Cover high school football and volleyball games
● Write weekly posts on teams, games and players to watch
● Pitch and write features and enterprise or trend pieces on high school sports
● Take photos and videos using your phone at events
● Maintain an active presence on social media
● Cover college and professional sporting events, such as the State Fair Classic, the Red River Rivalry and Dallas Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars and Wings games.
● Work nights, weekends and occasional holidays as dictated by the news cycle
What will it take to be successful?
● Strong writing and editing skills
● At least one previous internship in sports media
● Strong news judgment and excellent verbal and analytical skills
● Experience covering breaking news
● Strong organizational and time-management skills
● The ability to work under pressure with assigned deadlines
Experiment with Advanced AI to enhance journalism and reporting efforts
Our state-of-the-art AI tools, including ChatGPT Enterprise as well as the many Hearst DevHub-built tools, act as a smart assistant for routine work. In our newsroom, you will use AI to:
- Generate headline options, SEO keywords or alert language
- Clean up grammar, apply style and improve clarity
- Version stories for different formats (video, audio) or platforms (social media)
- Monitor public meetings and get alerts with transcripts and video
- AI-assisted data processing and summarization, human-verified before use
Advanced AI is not a journalist, but it can facilitate and accelerate the work of journalism.
Exclusive Partnership with OpenAI
Through our strategic content partnership with OpenAI and our exclusive ChatGPT Enterprise license, we have unparalleled access to the latest advancements in AI technology.
About the Hearst DevHub
A key segment of our editorial innovation team is the AI group, which works on developing ambitious, reader-facing experiments and projects with accuracy as a core metric.
About The Dallas Morning News
Since 1885, The Dallas Morning News (www.dallasnews.com) has been North Texas’ trusted source for credible, independent journalism — reporting with accuracy, fairness and integrity. Each week, we reach more than 4 million people across print, digital, and social platforms, covering the stories that shape life in Dallas and across the state. From politics and public policy to business, culture and sports, our mission is to inform, engage and reflect the diverse communities we serve.
Our staff works in the office at least three days a week. The Dallas Morning News believes a collaborative and inclusive work environment is essential to a thriving workplace. We support one another as we produce revelatory work with our community in mind. We are in search of a diverse group of candidates.
About Hearst Newspapers:
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
- At least one previous internship in sports media
- Strong writing and editing skills
- Strong news judgment
- Excellent verbal and analytical skills
- Experience covering breaking news
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to work under pressure with assigned deadlines
- Cover letter, resume, and references
- No more than five published clips
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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