US Audience Engagement Summer Intern

About Us 

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity, and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of 1.4 million, more than one million of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news, and services for the global business community.  We have offices in more than 35 cities, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Sofia, San Francisco, and Tokyo. 

Our Internships

We are looking for passionate and motivated students who are interested in pursuing a career in journalism to join our team. We take a hands-on approach and expect our interns to meaningfully contribute to our award-winning US newsroom. 

The US AE internship is designed to give you experience in all aspects of audience engagement, from social media to SEO to community journalism and reader insights. The role will be partly day-to-day experiences like helping with breaking news and our social channels, and long term projects related to your interests. 

This program is a ten week summer internship taking place June-August 2025. This internship is paid $16.50 per hour for 40 hours per week.The schedule involves a five day working week. The team is in a hybrid work environment, with the intern expected to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday.

Applicants must be authorised to work in the US.

The Role

We are looking for a talented and ambitious person pursuing a career in journalism to work with our Audience Engagement team in New York. Our team helps FT journalism reach a broader audience – by producing original content for social media, directly engaging with our readers, managing engagement projects, monitoring analytics, and advising editors and reporters on best practices.

We are looking for candidates with a proven interest in social media, multimedia production, community engagement or digital journalism in general. Knowledge of business and economics is helpful, but not necessary. You’ll have the opportunity to help conceive, shape and execute engagement strategies and experiments as well as take part in our daily audience engagement activities. 

What You’ll Work On:

• Helping develop original ideas, experiments and engagement/social media strategies around planned news events, breaking news and special projects

• Assisting the social media team in producing posts and keeping our channels up to date and on the news agenda

• Producing original content specifically for social media to help promote FT journalism (this could include charts, social cards, videos, etc.)

• Assisting with direct reader engagement through reader participation/community projects 

• Using data and insights to analyse audience behaviour and help inform our journalism

• Providing SEO and social trends guidance from social and web listening tools

About You:

• Experience in journalism (a student publication counts), and good news judgement

• Experience with design (Adobe Suite or similar) and video editing a plus

• Good writing and editing skills

• Good communication skills, organised, curious, and able to balance multiple projects at once

• You are interested in making FT journalism accessible to a broader audience across various platforms 

Please submit your application by November 16 and be sure to include the following documents in your application 

• Resume

• Cover letter stating why you want to work at the FT and explaining your interest in audience engagement

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace

At the FT, we aim for employees across all regions to have a voice so that diverse perspectives are heard and valued. We believe that a supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves at work and have the flexibility they need to meet their personal needs. We'll continue to remove barriers for all, and in particular barriers facing employees from underrepresented groups.

Further Information

At the FT, we know our most valuable resources are our people and we embrace our employees’ unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer that seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. 

Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, please contact a member of our HR team who will be happy to help.