Digital Design/Development Intern, Summer 2027

San Francisco Chronicle Summer Digital Design/Development Internship

The San Francisco Chronicle is seeking motivated students and recent graduates interested in pursuing careers in visual, product and UI/UX design, visual storytelling and coding/development for journalism.

The Chronicle’s design team is a multidisciplinary group responsible for elevating the newsroom’s most ambitious journalism. We are a diverse group of designers, illustrators, graphics/data reporters and developers of varied backgrounds. Our projects range from crafting design systems for lines of coverage to piecing together immersive storytelling approaches for longform narratives and investigative reports. Recent successes include an Online Journalism Award-winning project on the impact of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans on San Francisco’s Japantown [https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/sf-japantown-incarceration/] and the extremely successful relaunch of our list of Top 100 Restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area [https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/top-100-best-restaurants-san-francisco-bay-area/] that we rebranded and redesigned with new product features and audience strategies. We also contributed to two investigations — “The Right to Remain Secret [https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-clean-record-agreements/]” and “Fast and Fatal [https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-chases/]” — that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2025.

Our interns have worked on a variety of projects depending on their interests and emerging skillsets. A more coding-focused intern helped create tools to make it easier for other members of the team to produce bespoke, custom-coded projects. Another designed unique visualizations for a story on how winter storms impacted areas around Northern California’s Feather River. You may find yourself creating motion graphics, static and/or interactive information graphics, page designs or new components, such