High School Sports Intern - Fall 2026

High School Sports Intern

Join our SportsDay team as a fall intern covering high school football and other sports.

Job Description: The intern will be a member of The Dallas Morning News’ award-winning sports staff. Reporting assignments will be a mix of daily and enterprise coverage, mostly high school football, but there will be opportunities to cover college and professional sports, as well as general assignment news. Weekend work is required. A cover letter and résumé with references are required with all applications. Applicants should send no more than five published clips, and if sending links, please include a username and password.

What will you do?

• Cover high school football and volleyball games
• Write weekly posts on teams, games and players to watch
• Pitch and write features and enterprise or trend pieces on high school sports
• Take photos and videos using your phone at events
• Maintain an active presence on social media
• Cover college and professional sporting events, such as the State Fair

Classic, the Red River Rivalry and Dallas Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars and Wings games.

• Work nights, weekends and occasional holidays as dictated by the news cycle

What will it take to be successful?

• Strong writing and editing skills
• At least one previous internship in sports media
• Strong news judgment and excellent verbal and analytical skills
• Experience covering breaking news
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• The ability to work under pressure with assigned deadlines

Experiment with Advanced AI to enhance journalism and reporting efforts Our state-of-the-art AI tools, including ChatGPT Enterprise as well as the many Hearst DevHub-built tools, act as a smart assistant for routine work. In our

newsroom, you will use AI to

• Generate headline options, SEO keywords or alert language
• Clean up grammar, apply style and improve clarity
• Version stories for different formats (video, audio) or pl