summer 2027 internship

How to apply: Fill out our application here. You will need to attach a resume and cover letter. Questions: Send an email to meg.shutzer@missionlocal.com with the subject line: Internship Pay: $1000 a week.

To outsiders, San Francisco appears media-rich. The San Francisco Chronicle has been publishing since 1865. Others include SFGate, the San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Standard, launched in 2021 by a politically active venture capitalist.

Small digital news sites include the San Francisco Public Press, 48 Hills, and others. But no other San Francisco news organization focuses on critical information for low-income and Black, Latino, and Asian residents — respectively, 5, 15 and 35 percent of the population — like Mission Local. We provide critical coverage to all San Francisco residents, but we focus on issues that often negatively impact low-income and communities of color to write stories that simply would not be reported on without our site.

Three examples will put this claim in sharp relief: our 2020 Covid reporting, which won a semi-finalist Goldsmith award; our 2024 election coverage, which has helped us win national and state “general excellence” awards and aims to reach low-information voters; and our ongoing coverage of public housing, which has also won awards and triggered two public hearings. In 2024, we won general excellence from the Online News Association for the second time in three years. We began as a UC Berkeley J-School project in 2008 and became independent in 2014.

As a nonprofit news site with a strong board, we continue to be a training ground for young reporters who reflect the city’s diversity.