Opinion Team Internship
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Job Description
Opinion Team Internship Summer 2025
Houston Chronicle Houston TX
The Houston Chronicle Opinion Team is seeking a passionate and motivated intern for Summer 2025. This role is ideal for aspiring journalists eager to amplify diverse voices engage with critical community discussions and gain handson editorial experience.
What Youll Do:
- Collaborate closely with opinion editors to commission edit factcheck and produce a variety of content including traditional opeds essays multimedia opinion pieces and short responses to our Question of the Week.
- Identify and solicit unique and diverse perspectives on breaking news and trending topics.
- Review unsolicited opinion submissions ensuring accuracy and editorial standards.
- Assist reader engagement initiatives such as newsletters comment callouts and digital forms to actively involve community voices.
- Verify contributor identities and maintain productive communication throughout the editing and publishing process.
- Strategically share opinion content across digital platforms enhancing audience reach and engagement.
- Pursue a writing or editing project tailored to your interests and aligned with our teams goals.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated passion for journalism and editorial work.
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail especially in factchecking and editing.
- Ability to secure housing in Houston for the duration of the internship.
Internship Details:
- Duration: 10 weeks from June to August 2025
- Hours: Approximately 30 hours per week (Monday through Thursday) with occasional weekend coverage
- Location: Hybrid schedule with a requirement of 3 days per week inoffice at the Houston Chronicle
- Compensation: $15 per hour
Application Instructions: Please submit the following materials:
- Resume
- Three writing samples
- A onepage cover letter addressed to the Recruiting Committee highlighting your passion for journalism your commitment to elevating diverse voices and what you hope to achieve through this internship.
- Applications must be submitted by Monday April 14th.
About the Houston Chronicle:
The Houston Chronicle recognized for its Pulitzer Prizewinning journalism serves its 2.3 million residents with content and marketing solutions across two of Houstons largest websites Chron along with our magazine television and newspaper brands. Our mission is to spark conversations that inspire action to create a better Houston. All our content and the innovative business solutions we provide invite Houstonians to join conversations about a community weve been committed to covering and helping prosper for more than 120 years. The community we all call home.
About Hearst Newspapers:
With 2500 employees across the nation HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications including the San Francisco Chronicle Houston Chronicle San Antonio ExpressNews and Albany Times Union several top digitalonly news and lifestyle sites marketing services businesses and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.
At HNP we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories growing newsrooms diversifying tools evolving platforms to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions take action and be inspired.
Be a part of something bigger your headline awaits.
Recognizing the diverse needs of our candidates if you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation to use our website or regarding the application process please contact us by email at Please do not use this email address to inquire about the status of applications. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests for a reasonable accommodation through this email address.
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Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Full-Time
