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About the Role
The US reach and subscriber engagement team produces original content for social media, engages with readers, manages projects, monitors analytics, and advises editors on best practices. This internship offers the opportunity to help conceive, shape, and implement engagement strategies, and participate in daily audience engagement activities within the newsroom.
Responsibilities
- 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 analyse audience behaviour and help inform our journalism
- Providing SEO and social trends guidance from social and web listening tools
- Producing panels to promote our stories on Google Showcase
Requirements
- Experience in journalism (a student publication counts), and good news judgement
- Good writing and editing skills
- Good communication skills, organised, curious, and able to balance multiple projects at once
- Interest in making FT journalism accessible to a broader audience across various platforms
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.
- Must be available from June 7, 2027 - Aug 13, 2027.
- Resume
- A cover letter explaining why you would be a good fit, and explaining your interest in joining our team
Skills
- Social media
- Multimedia production
- Community engagement
- Digital journalism
- Design (Adobe Suite or similar) a plus
- Video editing a plus
Location
- US
Work Type
- Paid internship
- Full-time
- Onsite (minimum three days a week)
Experience Level
- Student
Education Level
- Student pursuing a career in media
Salary/Compensations
- $22 per hour for 40 hours per week
Benefits
- Paid internship
- Mentorship and support from a dedicated Buddy
- Opportunity to connect and collaborate across the FT
- Develop ideas that drive growth
- Present work to US leadership
- Gain valuable insights from across the business
About the Company
- The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity, and accuracy.
- At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded.
- The FT has a record paying readership of 1.6 million, more than 1.4 million of which are digital subscriptions.
- It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news, and services for the global business community.
- We have offices in more than 35 countries, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Sofia, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone has equal opportunity to succeed.
- We welcome and value different perspectives and strive to ensure all employees are heard and supported.
- We believe people do their best work when they can be themselves and have the flexibility they need to balance their work and personal lives.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination.
- We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.