Data & Analytics Intern

Description:

Data & Analytics Internship - Top News Organization, Meaningful Work

Community Impact is a Texas-based local news and advertising company — trusted news and local information that everyone gets. We reach 2 million mailboxes through monthly print editions, daily newsletters, and a fast-growing digital platform. The data team behind it is small, busy, and increasingly central to how the business grows; we're investing in AI-driven analytics, attribution, and client-facing data products, and we're hiring an intern to grow alongside that work.

ABOUT YOU

You don't need every skill below — curiosity about most plus interest in growing into the rest. Class projects, personal projects, and self-taught work all count.

• A working grasp of basic marketing principles — you read the story behind a number and come back with ideas, not just observations
• Some exposure to SQL and Python for data work
• Curiosity about enterprise data warehouses like Snowflake — you don't need it on your résumé, but you want to learn how real production systems work
• Some experience with dashboards or data visualizations in Tableau or a similar BI tool — we care about reporting principles (clarity, hierarchy, decision-usefulness), not which tool
• Comfortable using AI agents like Claude or Codex as a system — chaining tasks, evaluating output, treating the model like a teammate. Curiosity counts even if you've barely used them
• Smart, fast learner, comfortable with ambiguity. Bonus if you ask why a lot

WHY JOIN COMMUNITY IMPACT

This is an analyst-first internship designed as a learning role. You'll spend most of your time turning data into answers — for clients, for sales and marketing teams, and for internal product decisions — and pitch in on the data, AI, and solutions work that comes up day-to-day. AI is part of how we work every day, not a side experiment. We'll meet you where you are on the technical side and help you grow into the rest.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Analyzing client performance data — attribution, campaign outcomes, audience reach
• Building and maintaining internal dashboards for sales, editorial, and leadership
• Designing AI-assisted data workflows — prompts, scenarios, output evaluation Ad-hoc investigations and data-quality reviews alongside our platform team

COMPENSATION

Summer interns will work 20-30 hours per week for 10-12 weeks (open to summer-only or summer-through-fall) and will be paid an hourly rate of $20/hour.

SCHEDULES

Community Impact has a target start date of June 2026. This is a hybrid position with three days per week at the Innovation Center in Pflugerville, TX (flexibility around school schedules).

Requirements:

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must be enrolled in college and working toward their degree or may have graduated within six months of the internship start date.

Community Impact (JG Media, Inc.) is a registered Texas data broker; team members complete a brief data-handling onboarding and sign a standard confidentiality acknowledgment before access is provisioned.