• Job Description

  Req#: EDITO002622

  POLITICO's New York team is seeking an editorial intern for Fall 2024. The intern will work from our Lower Manhattan office — will play a critical role in our coverage of Mayor Eric Adams, the City Council and politics and policy in America's biggest city.

  Internship date ranges and application deadlines:

  Application Deadline: June 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST
  Internship Dates: September 2024 – December 2024
  Hours: 40 Per Week
  Compensation: $23/HR

  What You’ll Do:

  • Pitch, report and write stories of consequence, both for our audience of influential professionals in New York and POLITICO's wider national readership.
  • Cover spots news as assigned by editors
  • Work with our New York Playbook team to write and produce our daily newsletter on politics in the state
  • The intern will be involved in all aspects of content creation and production, including research, reporting, writing, editing and aggregating. Some of this work will occur in early morning hours

  What You’ll Need:

  • A can-do attitude, initiative, good time management and the ability to work well under pressure
  • Strong critical thinking skills and a desire to not only develop your own story ideas but explain their broader meaning to a sophisticated audience
  • The ability to write quickly and cleanly while on deadline
  • Prior hands-on experience as an intern at a professional news outlet and, ideally, experience working on a student publication
  • A passion for politics and policy and a thirst to learn how New York works
  • A commitment to fair-minded, nonpartisan journalism
  • A resume, cover letter and 3-5 clips, original clips are preferred

  We welcome applicants who are recent graduates. Applicants who are still in school must, at least, be rising juniors. The ideal applicant will have experience at a school publication and/or previous experience at a professional news outlet.

  We are driven by our values. We are relentless contributors, disruptors of the status quo, collaborators, talent cultivators and DEI stewards. Our culture is defined by grit, total integrity and a prioritization on innovation.

  Let’s keep in touch. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @politicocareers and #meetPOLITICO for a deep dive into what makes us POLITICOs and our adventures. We’d love to hear from you! Want to join POLITICO but don’t see a job suited to you? Sign up to be a part of our Talent Network to be alerted of future opportunities.

  Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

  The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

• About the company

  Politico, known originally as The Politico, is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

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