Sports Intern

About the role

Help our team lead the charge on coverage of North Texas sports in a market hungry for it. From breaking news to viral trends, you'll set the agenda and shape how our audience consumes sports journalism. Reporting assignments will be a mix of daily and enterprise coverage, but there will be opportunities to cover college and professional sports, as well as GA. The Dallas Morning News, since 1885, 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. Hearst Newspapers employs 2,500 people nationwide, representing a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate. At Hearst, we invest in new and innovative ways to tell stories — growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms — to support the millions who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.

Responsibilities

• Write quickly and accurately on a variety of local news topics related to North Texas sports
• Use social media as a tool to develop story ideas and respond to what our audience is talking about
• Build stories with links, tags, SEO best practices, attractive web headlines and multimedia when appropriate
• Work with editors to develop coverage that resonates with our digital audience
• Assist with video and audio journalism, as needed
• Actively use social media in the newsgathering process and take smartphone photos or videos

Requirements

• Good news judgment, accuracy, speed, grammatical precision, a flair for headlines, energy, curiosity and an ability to provide the best local sports coverage with impact, excitement and an eye toward digital success
• Proficiency in digital content management tools
• Using social media for newsgathering and audience development
• Demonstrated ability to work remotely via smartphone or laptop computer
• Understanding of platforms and audiences and ability to compose stories appropriate to the platform of publication (e.g., voice, style, formatting, hyperlinks)
• Deep knowledge of SEO techniques and other digital best practices
• Using accepted newsroom tools for planning, authoring, communicating, etc.
• Collaborating effectively with team members and across newsroom teams
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, producing stories quickly and accurately
• Knowledge of digital news analytics
• Valid driver's license and registered vehicle to travel to assignments

Schedule

Weekend work is required.