About the Internship
Our seven-person team analyzes data to inform and improve the world. We also use web development to experiment with better ways to tell news stories online. And we write computer code that helps our traditional newsroom do impactful journalism in a digital era — in both how we find stories and how we present them.
Our interns tackle big, ambitious projects as full-fledged members of the team. The intern who started here in January spent the last 10 months analyzing data and building graphics to show what happened to black children when our schools resegregated. The intern who started in June has rewritten much of our long-form-story infrastructure, learned to both analyze data and make d3 charts, and shared bylines on front-page stories about presidential fundraising.
Our next intern could be a great reporter who finds watchdog stories in spreadsheets. Or a web designer/graphics maven with innovative ideas about digital storytelling. Or a statistics/computer science student who wants to use those skills to inform the public. You don’t have to be a journalist right now. You do have to want to be one.
Qualifications & Requirements
Our next intern should possess and have some capabilities of the following:
- Data reporting,
- Web development,
- Infographics or statistics.
Aside from the skills, you should also send in the following materials on your application:
- A resume
- A cover letter – Tell us what your dream internship on our team would look like. Then pick one thing from this list of projects our paper has done, and tell us how your skills could have helped make it better.
- Clips/work samples – A clip could be a published story, a web page you built, a graphic you made or your GitHub account. It could be a crazy multitenancy Node.js app. It could be a really gripping flowchart. Show us your best work, whatever form it takes.
For More Information
Email TBTimesInternship@tampabay.com for questions and more information.