Newsroom Summer Internship Program 2027: Data Journalist
The Washington Post•Washington, DC
•Onsite
About The Position
The Washington Post is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for the newsroom’s flagship summer internship program. Our interns report and write articles, edit copy, take photographs, shoot and edit video, create graphics, produce audio, design on multiple platforms, develop audience strategy and do data analyses. They work alongside and learn from award-winning journalists, and we treat them as staff members during their internship.
Requirements
- Must be a college junior, senior or graduate student enrolled in a degree program by the application deadline.
- Technically adept reporter who works in R or Python.
- Infused with skepticism, bold ideas for analyses and smart storytelling approaches using data.
- Commitment to accuracy, clarity and journalistic rigor.
- Applications should include a résumé, autobiographical essay (which should be no more than 500 words), and a link to your work portfolio or copies of no more than three clips that demonstrate your best data-driven work. Please include an explanation of your role in each clip.
Nice To Haves
- Sharp writing and visualization skills are a plus.
- Experience using GitHub is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Acquire, clean and analyze data and present your results to reporters and editors.
- Write stories and suggest possibilities for visualization and presentation.
- Work across the newsroom on a wide range of stories, from quick-turn coverage to large-scale projects.
Benefits
- Paid $1021.13/week.
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