Editorial Intern for Spring 2026
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Job Description
POLITICO's New York team is seeking an editorial intern for spring 2026 to work from their Lower Manhattan office. The intern will play a critical role in covering Mayor Eric Adams, the City Council, and politics and policy in New York City. Responsibilities include pitching, reporting, and writing stories for both local and national audiences, covering spot news, and contributing to the daily New York Playbook newsletter. The role involves all aspects of content creation, including research, reporting, writing, editing, and aggregating, with some work occurring in early morning hours.
Must have:
- Pitch, report, and write stories of consequence
- Cover spot news as assigned by editors
- Work with the New York Playbook team to write and produce the daily newsletter
- Be involved in all aspects of content creation and production (research, reporting, writing, editing, aggregating)
- Demonstrate a can-do attitude, initiative, good time management, and ability to work well under pressure
- Possess strong critical thinking skills
- Ability to write quickly and cleanly while on deadline
- Have prior hands-on experience as an intern at a professional news outlet
- Possess a passion for politics and policy and a thirst to learn how New York works
- Commit to fair-minded, nonpartisan journalism
Good to have:
- Experience working on a student publication
3 skills required
Job Details
Description
POLITICO's New York team is seeking an editorial intern for spring 2026. The intern will work from our Lower Manhattan office and 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:Application decisions will be rolling, and the last day to apply is October 15 at 5:00pm EST.
Internship Dates: January 2026 – May 2026
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 spot news as assigned by editors
- Work with our New York Playbook team to write and produce our daily newsletter on politics in the state
- You 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
Submission Materials:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- 3-5 original clips to showcase your experience. Please attach as PDFs or links that are publicly accessible
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 value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.
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