News Intern

The Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, is looking for a recent college graduate or current student passionate about local news to join us as a full-time paid intern reporter for the summer of 2024.

As a general assignment reporter, the ideal candidate should be comfortable and eager to tackle-breaking news assignments and dig deeply into issues that affect Centre County residents. A big part of the job will be selecting stories that our audiences care about and working with editors and other journalists in the newsroom to reach those audiences.

Key duties include:

Finding, prioritizing, and writing the most significant and interesting local news stories of the day, ahead of the competition
Obtaining public records and, when needed, filing public records requests expertly and efficiently
Shooting photos and videos as needed
Distributing work through social media platforms
Supplying SEO keywords, headlines, and other strategies to boost the distribution of each story