The Texas Tribune 2027 Student Fellowships
About The Position
The Texas Tribune is accepting applications for its paid 2027 spring and summer fellowships. They are seeking creative, highly motivated students or recent graduates to join Texas’ premier digital news organization. The Tribune is a nonprofit newsroom that provides robust, nonpartisan coverage of Texas politics and public policy in a variety of formats, including social videos, enterprise articles, searchable databases, and editorial events. The fellowships are designed for college students eager to apply classroom lessons, launch their careers, and contribute to a more engaged, informed, and civically aware Texas. Fellowships are available not only in journalism roles like reporting, photojournalism, and data journalism, but also in non-journalism capacities crucial for the newsroom's mission. Spring fellowships are part-time, running from January to May, and are open to currently enrolled community college, undergraduate, or graduate students. Summer fellowships are full-time, running from June to August, and are open to currently enrolled students or recent graduates.
Requirements
- Examples of creating graphics with JavaScript, Adobe Illustrator, Figma or a charting tool like Datawrapper.
- Experience analyzing data with Python or R.
- Passionate about politics, policy and open government.
- Solid news judgment and experience reporting and writing on deadline.
- Sharp social copywriting skills and experience using social networks for newsgathering.
- Experience editing visual stories (including social graphics, audio, video and/or other multimedia).
- Reliable, quick on their feet and comfortable managing multiple projects at once.
- Creative self-starters who can quickly learn and adapt to new systems and processes.
- Demonstrate reliability in rapidly changing environments and ability to work comfortably on multiple projects with a hybrid team.
- Strong writing skills are a must.
- Aspiring photojournalists.
- Experience reporting and writing on deadline.
- Interest in covering state policy topics, such as health, education, immigration, criminal justice, and the environment, as well as the state’s changing demographics.
- Self-starting and ability to work independently, as well as within a team.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once.
- Familiarity and experience with multimedia journalism is preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Experience editing visual stories (including social graphics, audio, video and/or other multimedia) is highly valued.
- Experience writing marketing copy is preferred.
- In-person or hybrid candidates strongly preferred.
- Familiarity and experience with multimedia journalism is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to high-profile projects and potentially lead them.
- Package Tribune stories for platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reddit.
- Contribute to daily newsletters.
- Write explainers or guides.
- Pitch and edit short-form videos or other original content for social platforms.
- Coordinate, promote, and execute annual events, including the Texas Tribune Festival.
- Craft event listings.
- Devise and execute event promotional strategies.
- Manage event production tasks.
- Assist in coordinating marketing and media relations for Tribune products.
- Assist the MarCom team with copywriting, digital marketing, and social media placement.
- Assist with project management and field marketing.
- Assist with community outreach efforts through email and phone calls.
- Coordinate media interviews for Tribune reporters.
- Edit on the photo desk and make images in Central Texas and beyond.
- Undertake assignments involving breaking news and feature photography.
- Work on the photo desk, including story production tasks such as image selection, editing visual packages, and producing off-platform content.
- Dive into daily news and enterprise coverage, including reporting on elections and Texas’ biennial legislative sessions.
- Capture audiences through short-form video content highlighting breaking news, explainers, and trending stories.
- Drive traffic and awareness for the publication across Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
- Record new content and edit new or existing videos.
- Assist the team in developing and executing short-form video content.
- Produce daily videos for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
- Create captions for clips.
- Edit highlights from live breaking news on tight deadlines.
- Contribute to mixed media posts on Instagram.
- Document metrics from Instagram, TikTok / YouTube Shorts.
Benefits
- paid fellowships
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