Fellowship -- Audience

Join the 2023 New York Times Fellowship class as a member of the Audience team. The Audience fellow will spend the year getting a comprehensive understanding of how The Times approaches off- and on-platform audience development and engagement. The year will be divided into three-month rotations with the four departments that make up the Audience team. Rotation 1: Data and audience insights. Working with Hannah Poferl, the newsroom's Audience director on the masthead, and the newsroom's partners in data analytics, the fellow will begin the year with a baseline understanding of our audience — who we reach and who we still need to engage. The fellow will also learn basic data literacy skills and work on one data-driven research project to help a desk optimize its coverage. Rotation 2: Search. Working with search editors, the fellow will learn how we track trends, shape live coverage on breaking storylines, and optimize headlines and links. At the end of this rotation, the fellow will have worked out a strategic plan for a desk to lean into evergreen search trends. Rotation 3: Community. Working with Community editors, the fellow will learn how to engage Times readers through comments and callouts. At the end of this rotation, the fellow will have worked on at least one crowdsourcing project for a desk and contributed to at least one major initiative to diversify sourcing. Rotation 4: Social. This rotation will develop the fellow's social strategy, framing, copy and news judgment skills. The fellow will create multiple social rollout plans for Times enterprise projects. This will include tasks like crafting an overall strategic approach for the project, planning Twitter threads, working with reporters on their own social copy, and developing Instagram cross-promotion and off-platform visual treatments. This program is for early-career journalists. Applicants with more than five years of full-time, professional journalism experience beyond school will not be considered. The most competitive candidates will be college graduates or postgraduates or career pivoters of any age who have had multiple internships or equivalent experience in related fields.