The Star Tribune Media Company is the upper Midwest’s largest source of news and information, delivering more of what matters to Minnesota all day, every day.  In the 16th-largest U.S. market Star Tribune reaches more consumers than any other media brand, with the country’s 5th-largest Sunday newspaper, the most-visited local website, numerous mobile and tablet apps, and a portfolio of print and digital products. In 2013 the company was recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes as well as the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce “Best in Business” award.

We are seeking a multi-talented summer intern with both web development skills and high interest and background in data-focused journalism. This person will work with journalists around the newsroom to deepen our storytelling online. He or she will be expected to help analyze data and build standalone interactive editorial content for StarTribune.com and mobile platforms. He or she would also be available to provide preliminary data and statistical analysis to reporters and editors.

Our mobile goals have an increasingly high priority, and this person will be expected to craft solutions that work well on mobile devices.

There's potential for a candidate to take a leading role in developing newsroom tools to improve workflow for digital content beyond written articles and traditional multimedia.

Our web design team is now more than ever working quickly to build our data visualization tools, and this person will be a part of that effort as well.

Reports to: Digital Design Director

The Star Tribune offers about a dozen 10-week summer internships in various craft areas. We recruit nationally for this program and pride ourselves on choosing talented, driven college and graduate students who can step into our newsroom and contribute right away. Our summer interns are paid the same as first-year professionals, $706 a week.

We provide:

• a real-world experience in a major daily newsroom
• a challenging and affirming environment that includes mentors as well as supervisors
• weekly brown-bag lunch discussions on topics such as investigative reporting, narrative writing and multimedia storytelling

We expect our interns:

• to develop their own story ideas and to run hard at the assignments we give them
• to have a valid driver’s license if they’re working as reporters or photographers
• to conduct themselves in a professional manner

NOTE: There is an April 1 deadline for this position and that our other internship positions are already filled.

Must be skilled in coding, and interested in web design and data journalism.

How to apply online

• You must fill out our online application, which you can do by clicking on the link below.
• You can upload your cover letter, resume and clips using our online tool, which accepts a number of file formats (PDF, JPEG, FIG, DOC, DOCX, TXT and BMP).
• Our system will let you upload up to six files in addition to your cover letter and resume.
• If you have more than six files to submit beyond your resume and cover letter, you should combine some of them.
• None of your files can be larger than 2 MB.
• You can complete your online application in stages by selecting the link marked “Continue later” at the bottom of each page. That will prompt the system to email you a case-sensitive username and password that you can use to sign in and finish at a later time.
• We won’t see your application until you click submit. Once you take that step, you won’t be able to alter your application or attach additional documents to it.
• If you apply online, your references can email letters of recommendation to [email protected] with your name in the subject line.

The online application tool we use, SmartRecruiters, is optimized to work with Mozilla Firefox. Other browsers may not give you full functionality.

Questions?

If you have questions about the internship program, please reach out to our newsroom recruiter.

• You can call Duchesne Drew at 612-673-7111 or email him at [email protected].