Advertising Audience & Insights Intern

Intern, Advertising Group

The New York Times is seeking an inventive and motivated intern to join the Advertising group. In this role, you will be focusing on developing and maintaining audience narratives in service of our top advertising accounts and our marketing team.

The Insights team is the go-to resource for advertisers who want to understand, in detail, how and why a reader behaves as they do on The Times, the external factors that shape them, and the implications that that has for brands. Join an accomplished research team at the forefront of innovation.

The duration is 10 weeks long, starting on June 1, 2026.

The rate of pay for this role is $20.00 per hour.

Interns work 35 hours per week.

Open to hybrid work based in New York.

Responsibilities :

• Leverage proprietary and syndicated data to create and present analyses to position The New York Times to the marketplace and clients
• Find new ways to tell stories, ideating innovative research initiatives that bring our audience to life in new ways
• Conduct custom research to uncover audience and product insights to support the creation of insights-driven narratives
• Gain an understanding of advertising effectiveness studies to understand the impact and performance of campaigns
• Understand the competitive landscape, advertising trends, and client needs for advertising with an eye toward translating this intelligence into specific actionable research findings
• Responsibilities may also include supporting analysts to deliver on sales requests and mining internal and external databases to ultimately uncover insights around our audience and ad products

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

The New York Times Company is committed to being the worlds best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individuals sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.