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High School Sports Intern - Fall 2026

The Dallas Morning News · Dallas, TX · 1 mo ago
HybridOTHRFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if there is real specific content. We need to parse the job description. Key info: - Title: High School Sports Intern (but we don't repeat as heading) - 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?" list: 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?" list: 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. - Then a paragraph about AI: "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: description. - About The Dallas Morning News: description. - About Hearst Newspapers: description. - "Be a part of something bigger – Your Headline Awaits." maybe tagline. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The application instructions: "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." That's application instructions, should be removed. Also "Weekend work is required." is part of job description, we keep. We need to decide sections. Potential sections: - About the role: could include description of role: member of sports staff, reporting assignments, weekend work required, cover high school football etc. Could be a prose paragraph. - Responsibilities: list of duties (What will you do?). Use
  • . - Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: The "What will it take to be successful?" list includes skills and experience. Could be Requirements or Qualifications. We need to decide which sections to include. The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can choose a few substantive sections. We have content for Responsibilities (list). We have content for Requirements/Qualifications/Skills (list). We have content for About the role (description). There's no explicit Pay, Schedule, Benefits. There's mention of weekend work required, work nights, weekends, occasional holidays. That's schedule info but not explicit schedule like "Full-time" etc. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state weekend work required, work nights, weekends occasional holidays. That's schedule info. Could we put that under Schedule? It says "Schedule" heading only if posting actually states them. It does mention weekend work required, work nights, weekends occasional holidays. That is schedule info. So we could include a Schedule section with that info. However we need to avoid filler like "varies". It's specific: weekend work required, work nights, weekends occasional holidays as dictated by news cycle. That's specific enough. Benefits: none mentioned. Pay: none. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (or Qualifications/Skills), Schedule. We could combine Requirements and Skills into one section "Requirements". Or separate Qualifications and Skills. The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including skills/experience), Schedule. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Thus:

    About the role

    ... prose ...

    Responsibilities

    • ...
    • ...

    Requirements

    • ...
    • ...

    Schedule

    Weekend work is required; work nights, weekends and occasional holidays as dictated by the news cycle.

    We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, except boilerplate and application instructions. Let's extract all substantive info: From first paragraph: "Join our SportsDay team as a fall intern covering high school football and other sports." (that's part of 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." (we already have schedule). Also mention about cover letter etc (application instructions) - remove. Then "What will you do?" list items: - 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 Note: "Work nights, weekends and occasional holidays as dictated by the news cycle" duplicates schedule info; we already have schedule. Could keep in responsibilities as well but it's okay. Then "What will it take to be successful?" list: - 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 Then AI paragraph: "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." We need to preserve that as substantive info. Where to place? Could be part of About the role or a separate section like "Technology & Tools". But we only have allowed headings list; we could put under About the role as additional prose. Or maybe we could create a section "Skills" but that's already used. The instruction says we can use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It doesn't forbid other headings? It says use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies those are examples; we could use other headings but better to stick to those. The AI info could be part of About the role or maybe under Skills (as using AI tools). But it's more about tools/technology. Could be part of About the role. About Hearst DevHub, About The Dallas Morning News, About Hearst Newspapers: these are also substantive. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section "About the company". But not in list. Could incorporate into About the role as prose. We need to preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include all those paragraphs. Thus About the role section will be a long paragraph containing: join SportsDay team as fall intern covering high school football and other sports; intern will be member of award-winning sports staff; reporting assignments mix of daily and enterprise coverage, mostly high school football, opportunities to cover college/pro sports and general assignment news; weekend work required; plus AI experimentation description; plus About Hearst DevHub; plus About The Dallas Morning News; plus About Hearst Newspapers; plus maybe the tagline "Be a part of something bigger – Your Headline Awaits." That's all substantive. We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers (none). We must remove duplicated lines: there may be duplicate "Weekend work is required." appears both in job description and responsibilities list. We should keep only one instance? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we remove duplicate, we might be losing a duplicate but it's same info. Is that considered summarizing away detail? It's duplicate; removing duplicate is not losing info, just not repeating. Probably acceptable. We'll keep one mention. Similarly "Work nights, weekends and occasional holidays as dictated by the news cycle" appears in responsibilities and schedule; we can keep one. We need to ensure we don't inadvertently drop any unique info. Let's list unique substantive pieces: 1. Join our SportsDay team as a fall intern covering high school football and other sports. 2. The intern will be a member of The Dallas Morning News’ award-winning sports staff. 3. 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. 4. Weekend work is required. 5. Cover high school football and volleyball games. 6. Write weekly posts on teams, games and players to watch. 7. Pitch and write features and enterprise or trend pieces on high school sports. 8. Take photos and videos using your phone at events. 9. Maintain an active presence on social media. 10. Cover college and professional sporting events, such as the State Fair Classic, the Red River Rivalry and Dallas Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars and Wings games. 11. Work nights, weekends and occasional holidays as dictated by the news cycle. (schedule) 12. Strong writing and editing skills. 13. At least one previous internship in sports media. 14. Strong news judgment and excellent verbal and analytical skills. 15. Experience covering breaking news. 16. Strong organizational and time-management skills. 17. The ability to work under pressure with assigned deadlines. 18. Experiment with Advanced AI to enhance journalism and reporting efforts. 19. Our State

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