ABC News Audience Intern NYC

About the Role and Program

The ABC News Audience Development team creates, distributes, curates, and optimizes ABC News content across digital platforms, including ABCNews.com, mobile apps, major social media platforms, search, video, and other distribution channels. The team connects audiences with breaking news and original journalism while finding ways to grow engagement across current and emerging platforms.

As an Audience Development Intern, you will gain hands-on experience where journalism, audience strategy, analytics, and digital storytelling meet. You will work alongside experienced audience development professionals and learn how editorial judgment, data insights, and experimentation support audience growth. The ideal candidate follows news and current events, keeps up with digital media trends, and wants to understand how audiences find and consume content across platforms.

This is a full-time, six-month internship in the New York, New York area from January 2027 to June 2027.

What You Will Do

Day to day, you will support audience development initiatives across ABC News digital platforms. You will help curate content experiences on owned platforms, support audience growth strategies, and help distribute content to external partners to maximize visibility during major news events. You will also contribute to headline testing, monitor news, search, and social trends, and help identify emerging platforms, formats, and audience behaviors.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Experience in journalism, news reporting, news production, digital media, or content creation through coursework, internships, campus media, or related projects.
• Understanding of the 24/7 news cycle, current events, and breaking news coverage.
• Demonstrated writing and editing skills through coursework, internships, campus media, or published content samples.
• Experience using social media platforms, digital publishing tools, or content distribution channels through academic, extracurricular, internship, or personal projects.
• Familiarity with audience metrics, analytics, or data-informed decision-making.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments, meet deadlines, and collaborate in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Experience researching or analyzing audience, engagement, or content performance data.
• Familiarity with social media management, content publishing, or audience analytics tools.
• Experience creating content for digital, social, or campus media platforms.
• Experience in a newsroom, media organization, student publication, or similar environment.
• Familiarity with SEO, headline writing, or audience engagement strategies.
• Interest in emerging digital platforms and changing audience consumption habits.

Additional Information

• Consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the internship.
• Fully available from January 2027 through June 2027, Monday through Friday, 40 hours each week.
• Able to arrange own housing and reliable transportation in the New York, New York area for the full program.

Materials Requested

A portfolio review is required. For full consideration, include a link to your portfolio on your resume. Applications without a portfolio link may not be fully considered.