US Summer Audience Engagement Internship

Financial Times

The Role

The FT is looking for a talented and ambitious person pursuing a career in journalism to work with the FT’s Audience Engagement team in New York. Our team helps FT journalism reach and engage with its audience – by producing original content for social media, directly engaging with readers on site, managing engagement projects, monitoring analytics, and advising editors and reporters on best practices.

We are looking for candidates with a proven interest in social media, multimedia production, community engagement or digital journalism in general. Knowledge of business and economics is helpful but not necessary. You’ll have an opportunity to help conceive, shape and execute engagement strategies and experiments as well as take part in our daily audience engagement activities.

What You’ll Work On

• Helping develop original ideas, experiments and engagement/social media strategies around planned news events, breaking news and special projects 
• Assisting the social media team in producing posts and keeping our channels up to date and on the news agenda 
• Producing original content specifically for social media to help promote FT journalism (this could include charts, social cards, videos, etc.) 
• Assisting with direct reader engagement through reader participation/community projects 
• Using data and insights to analyze audience signals and help inform our journalism 
• Providing SEO and social trends guidance from social and web listening tools 
• The schedule involves a five day working week, with the days and hours dependent on newsroom demands. The team is in a hybrid work environment, with the intern expected to be in the office three days a week.

About You

• Experience in journalism 
•  (a student publication counts!), and good news judgement 
• Experience with design (Adobe Suite or similar) and video editing a plus 
• Good writing and editing skills 
• Good communication skills, organized, curious, and able to balance multiple projects at once 
• You are interested in making FT journalism accessible to a broader audience across various platforms 

To Apply, Please Attach

• Resume 
• Cover letter stating why you want to work at the FT and explaining your interest in audience engagement 

This internship is paid $16 per hour, for 40 hours per week Monday-Friday.