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Fellowships at The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
Austin, TX
Print/Online
Company Information
The Texas Tribune — a nonprofit, nonpartisan digital news organization — offers paid fellowships to college students. Fellowships allow aspiring journalists, graphic artists, software engineers, and marketing professionals to hone their skills and learn a host of new ones that will prepare them for modern newsrooms.
Duties
- Data Visuals fellows work closely with reporters and editors to generate story ideas, gather public data and comb through the results to tell data-driven, visual stories
- Engagement fellows keep the Tribune’s social media running, writing Twitter threads and creating Instagram stories. They write newsletters and comb through tips we get from crowdsourcing
- Engineering fellows support technology and innovation efforts across the organization, including the core website and content management system, membership services, platform integrations, and analytics products. We are seeing and testing many opportunities for AI and machine learning to enhance our products and processes across the organization, and we are seeking fellows who are eager to work with us to explore and build tools in this growing space
- Events fellows play a key role in promoting the Tribune's journalism and in planning and executing several dozen events each year, featuring policymakers talking about some of the most important issues facing our state — from coronavirus to immigration — and, of course, the annual Texas Tribune Festival held in downtown Austin
- Marketing and Communications fellows assist in coordinating marketing and media relations for Tribune products; help the MarCom team with copywriting, social media placement, project management and field marketing; and lead community outreach efforts through email and phone calls
- Photography fellows shoot photos in Central Texas and beyond for our digital-first publication
- Product fellows work across departments to shepherd major projects and initiatives that support both editorial and business needs, helping us gather and analyze data to inform feature development and product prioritization
- Production Design fellows assist with digital and print-related design production, including rapidly creating digital and print-related projects with sharp attention to detail and supporting our promotional and experiential materials for editorial, events, business, and marketing
- Texas Reporting fellows work from across Texas to cover policy impacts, policymakers and the role of Texas in national politics
- Washington, D.C., Reporting fellows work alongside the Washington correspondent to cover the Texas congressional delegation, U.S. House and Senate elections, and the biggest Texas news in the nation’s capital
