POLITICO’s New York team is seeking an editorial intern for summer 2023. The intern — working both virtually and 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: December 18, 2022
Internship Dates: June 2023 – August 2023
Hours: TBD
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.
- 3-5 clips original clips are preferred
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