Editorial Internship

POLITICO's New York team is seeking an editorial intern for Fall 2025. 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 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Internship Dates: September 2025 – December 2025
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.

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