Audience Team Intern, Wirecutter

The role

You will work with the Audience Development Team to share product reviews and expert advice on social and newsletters. Your work includes drafting, editing, and producing newsletters, as well as coordinating workflows between writers and editors.

What you will do

• Help create the strategy behind Wirecutter's social media presence
• Develop posts with the team to reach a growing audience
• Draft, edit, and produce newsletters
• QA and pitch ideas for newsletters, social channels or other off-platform audiences
• Help coordinate copy deadlines and workflows between writers, editors, and audience team members
• Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence

Required qualifications

• Undergraduate, Graduate, or Recent Graduate students

Nice to have

• Strong editorial judgment and experience writing or producing content on deadline
• Thoughtful journalism skills and experience writing for a news organization, such as a college newspaper, television station, or magazine
• Experience with email service providers (MailChimp, Stensul, etc.) and or social channels
• Highly motivated, and able to work independently and with minimal direction
• Comfortable presenting ideas and solutions to managers and colleagues
• A collaborative and creative attitude

Benefits

• Variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• Company-matching 401(k) plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick days
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development programs

Before you apply

• Provide links to bylines, published pieces, or examples of writing for newsletters, alongside a résumé and a cover letter
• Submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process

About the company

The New York Times seeks the truth and helps people understand the world through independent journalism. Wirecutter is an editorial organization that provides product reviews and expert advice.