The Texas Tribune 2027 Student Fellowships
About The Position
The Texas Tribune is accepting applications for its paid 2027 spring and summer fellowships, seeking creative, highly motivated students or recent graduates to join Texas’ premier digital news organization. The nonprofit newsroom provides robust, nonpartisan coverage of Texas politics and public policy in various formats, including social videos, enterprise articles, databases, and editorial events. The fellowships are designed for college students eager to apply classroom knowledge, launch their careers, and contribute to a more engaged, informed, and civically aware Texas. Fellowships are available in journalism roles (reporting, photojournalism, data journalism) as well as non-journalism roles crucial for the newsroom's operations. Spring fellowships are part-time (January to May) for currently enrolled community college, undergraduate, or graduate students. Summer fellowships are full-time (June to August) for currently enrolled students or recent graduates.
Requirements
- Solid news judgment and experience reporting and writing on deadline.
- 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.
- Sharp social copywriting skills and experience using social networks for newsgathering.
- Experience editing visual stories (including social graphics, audio, video and/or other multimedia).
- Creative self-starters who are 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.
- Ability to demonstrate reliability in rapidly changing environments and ability to work comfortably on multiple projects with a hybrid team.
- Strong writing skills.
- Experience with multimedia journalism is preferred.
- Self-starting and ability to work independently, as well as within a team.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once.
Nice To Haves
- Experience writing marketing copy is preferred.
- Familiarity and experience with multimedia journalism is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Generate story ideas, gather public data, and analyze results for data-driven, visual stories.
- Use code and graphics to tell stories with data.
- 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 promotional strategies, and manage production tasks.
- Assist in coordinating marketing and media relations for Tribune products, including events and news.
- Assist with copywriting, digital marketing, and social media placement, 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.
- Cover breaking news and feature photography on a range of issues.
- Gain experience working 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 that highlights 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.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
