About this role
Stanford Rebele Data Science Internship, Summer 2026
At Hearst Newspapers, data drives the way we engage millions of readers across our publications. We're looking for an ambitious intern to join our Data and Insights team, where you'll tackle real-world challenges in digital media, audience growth, and storytelling at scale.
This internship will run from June 8 to August 14, 2026.
This is an opportunity to shape strategic decisions by translating complex data into powerful insights. You'll work cross-functionally with newsrooms, marketing, and audience teams to help the business understand how audience development drives outcomes for the business. You’ll help to answer questions like, “Do TikTok followers views lead to business outcomes”, “What platforms attract our most valuable audiences?”, “How do our users engage and interact with our investigative data-journalism projects, and does that engagement ultimately result in business outcomes”.
You will work directly with both technical and non-technical users to translate business questions into data problems that our data can solve. That work will involve building ad-hoc reports and dashboards, conducting exploratory analysis, and modeling data to help solve business problems.
Working within the larger Data and Insights team, you will be collaborating with other analysts, data scientists, and data engineers to understand how a business intelligence team functions in a media organization as you learn to hone your data skills.
What You'll Gain
• Hands-on experience working with BigQuery, Python, and large-scale datasets.
• A front-row seat to the inner workings of a modern media company at the intersection of data and journalism.
• The opportunity to present your findings to senior stakeholders — your insights will directly influence strategy.
Qualifications
• Pursuing a degree in math, engineering, statistics, econometrics, data science or related quantitative field
• Prior experience or internship with data analysis (as an analyst, in analytics, business intelligence or similar)
• Familiarity with SQL (BigQuery preferred)
• Familiarity with Python for data analysis
• Strong verbal and written communication, especially when presenting to non-technical stakeholders
This is your chance to leave a mark on one of the largest digital news organizations in the country. If you’re excited about data, media, and real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you!
HNP Overview:
With 2,500 employees across the nation, Hearst Newspapers (HNP) represents a network of 28 daily and 50 weekly publications, including the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany). Our portfolio also includes several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites such as Chron., CT Insider, MySA and SFGATE, along with marketing services businesses like Medium Giant and entertainment brands such as King Features Syndicate.
At HNP, we’re investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories — growing newsrooms, diversifying tools and evolving platforms — to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.
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About Hearst Television
We’re ambitious. We’re smart. We want to be the best, to put our mark on every story we tell and every project we take on. We have an uncompromising sense of integrity and an insatiable hunger for quality. And we’re looking for people like us. When you work at Hearst Television, you’ll have the opportunity to create your own Hearst career story. The opportunity to be developed, empowered, and rewarded.
We set a certain standard of excellence for ourselves. But don’t worry, you won’t be trying to meet that standard alone. Our employees enjoy some of the best support in the industry. We foster a culture of diversity, stability and support – you’ll really feel like part of the Hearst Family.
You’ll be able to rely on of one of the largest, most stable news and broadcasting organizations in the country. Hearst Television has been privately owned for over a century - we’re here to stay. We own and/or operate 35 television stations and two radio stations. We reach 21 million U.S. television households across 39 states. Our stations operate web and mobile platforms which reach 25 million unique visitors every month.
Hearst Television has been honored with numerous awards for journalism and innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award. Our community service has been widely acknowledged, including our support for organizations like the Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media, the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation and the Broadcasters Foundation of America.
If you seek to excel in your role, whether it’s in news, sales, marketing, engineering, IT, production, graphics/design, radio or technical, a career at Hearst Television could be the perfect opportunity for you. If you can not only see the bigger picture, but be a part of shaping it, we want to hear from you.
What you'll do
- Interns will tackle real-world challenges in digital media, audience growth, and storytelling at scale. They will work cross-functionally to translate complex data into insights that drive strategic decisions.
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