The Texas Tribune Fellowship Program
The Texas Tribune is hiring for its 2026 fellowships. We are looking for creative, high-potential talent to join our trailblazing digital news organization.
The Tribune is the state’s premier digital-first news organization, providing in-depth, nonpartisan coverage of Texas politics and public policy. Our nonprofit newsroom covers a wide range of topics, such as public and higher education, health, immigration, politics and the environment. In addition to investigative reports, we produce robust journalism in a variety of formats — from data visualizations and searchable databases to explanatory guides and editorial events — all designed to bring greater transparency and accountability to public policy and government.
Tribune fellowships are paid positions for currently enrolled college students who work part-time in the spring and fall and who are full-time in the summer. Recent graduates are eligible for the summer program, but spring and fall fellows must be enrolled as community college, undergraduate or graduate students while they work at the Tribune.
Tribune fellowships are available to those seeking experience in the following fields:
- audience engagement,
- data visualization,
- engineering,
- events,
- graphic design,
- marketing and communications,
- nonprofit resource development,
- photography,
- product development, and
- reporting in Texas or Washington, D.C.
Why join our fellowship program?
Our fellows don't just observe — they contribute directly to our mission.
Non-journalism fellows are critical to ensuring we can continue to serve Texans with factual, nonpartisan news. We’re looking for college students eager to put their classroom lessons into practice and launch their careers while working toward a more engaged, better-informed, more civically aware Texas.
The Tribune’s newsroom fellowships offer practical experience in public service journalism. You'll work alongside our award-winning staff to produce meaningful, fact-driven work that informs Texans and holds power accountable. This isn’t just an internship — it’s a chance to have a real impact.
Tribune fellows have written about how a new law limits the use of parent-child reunification therapy in custody battles, taken photographs and video for a story about Llano River communities fighting a former oil executive’s plan for a private dam, and provided in-depth, data-driven reporting on how many Texans could lose health coverage under expiring tax credits.
See recent work by Texas Tribune fellows here.
How to apply
You may apply for more than one 2026 fellowship. Submit your application here for spring and summer fellowships by Nov. 2. The deadline to apply for fall fellowships is Feb. 15.
Questions?
For general questions about the fellowship program, please contact Andy Alford, the Tribune’s director of recruitment, training and career development. We do not accept applications by email.
About The Texas Tribune
Here’s what you should know about the Tribune. From day one, we’ve had disruption, innovation and risk-taking in our DNA. We’re ambitious as all get out but still have the punch-above-your-weight mentality of a scrappy start-up. We believe we can meet the demands of our audience and our own expectations for excellence without breaking the bank — or our staff. We understand not everything is a story for us — we have to make choices — but we’re always looking to expand our boundaries.
We’re nonprofit because the challenging economic reality for media these days obligates us to find a different way, reliable and sustainable, to fund serious journalism. We’re nonpartisan because we live in the United States of Confirmation Bias — and we don’t need to be part of the problem. We don’t need to be yet another source of information affirming the voices and perspectives that are already in people’s heads. At the same time, nonpartisan is not non-thinking. We call B.S. when B.S. needs to be called.
The Texas Tribune seeks to ensure that its newsroom and its news coverage reflect Texas by including a wide range of perspectives from people of different backgrounds, ideologies and experiences.
Learn more about The Texas Tribune here.