Editorial Graphics & Education Internship - Fall 2026
About The Position
This internship is designed for individuals passionate about education, culture, data, and visual storytelling. It offers a dual experience, split between the Editorial Graphics team and the Education team. The Editorial Graphics portion (October-January) involves creating information graphics, data visualizations, and special story presentations in collaboration with reporters and editors, focusing on honing data visualization, coding, and data reporting skills. The Education portion (January-April) focuses on how learning happens, with the intern contributing to radio stories, video posts, and social media, pitching and researching stories, writing for NPR.org and the NPR Ed newsletter, assisting correspondents, and potentially helping with the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. This is an NPR editorial role governed by the NPR Ethics Handbook.
Requirements
- Must be a current student in an accredited degree program or a recent graduate of no more than 12 months from the month of the start of the internship.
- Excellent research and written/verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently, quickly, and accurately
- Easy to work and collaborate with, even on tight deadlines
- Demonstrated interest in culture, society and education, and creative storytelling
- Audio production
- Previous experience in a newsroom (or similar) setting
- Interest in growth and willingness to respond to professional feedback
- Demonstrated experience making information graphics and data visualizations for the Web.
- Comfort with spreadsheets and data (Google Sheets, CSV, JSON, etc.).
Nice To Haves
- Experience with front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3)
- Experience designing responsively (from big desktop screens to mobile devices)
- Data analysis and scripting (Python or similar) skills
Responsibilities
- Design/develop information graphics and data visualizations, in close collaboration with reporters, editors and creative technologists, on a variety of time scales (from short-turnaround requests to longer-term projects)
- Research, analyze and visualize data for reporting
- Report and writing digital and/or radio stories
- Assist team reporters and correspondents with research and reporting
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Elective contributions to the NPR 403(b) retirement plan
- Transit Commuter benefits through HealthEquity
- Membership with the Signal Financial Federal Credit Union
- Free access to on-site Wellness Center (at DC Headquarters)
- Free fitness center membership (at DC Headquarters)
- Secure bike facilities (at DC Headquarters)
- Garage parking (at DC Headquarters)
- Onsite cafeteria (at DC Headquarters)
- Employee Assistance Program with up to six face-to-face counseling sessions per issue
- Global Guardian worldwide assistance
- Business Travel Accident coverage
- Holiday pay for 10 observed holidays plus one floating holiday per year (for interns working 30+ hours/week)
- Accrue 3.08 hours of sick leave each pay period with no waiting period (for interns working 30+ hours/week)
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work hours
- Telecommuting options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
Associate degree
