Politico
Editorial Internship, New York Summer 2025
Politico, Sacramento, California, United States, 95828
Description
POLITICO's New York team is seeking an editorial intern for Summer 2025. The intern will work from our Lower Manhattan office, contributing to our Playbook newsletter and coverage of Mayor Eric Adams, the City Council and politics and policy in New York City.
Internship date ranges and application deadlines:
Application Deadline: Application decisions will be rolling , and the last day to apply is November 15 at 5:00pm EST.Internship Dates: June 2025 - August 2025Hours: 40 Per WeekCompensation: $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
Application materials:
Resume
Cover Letter
Letter of recommendation
3-5 original clips to showcase your experience
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.
We value our people. Click here (https://www.politico.com/blogs/meet-politico/2017/08/24/faq-241910) for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.
Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here (https://recruiting.ultipro.com/PER1013PCLL/JobBoard/b972ff6a-41b7-4e97-9c71-273c2595c77d/?q=&o=postedDateDesc) and email us careers@politico.com. We hope to see your application soon!
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)
POLITICO's New York team is seeking an editorial intern for Summer 2025. The intern will work from our Lower Manhattan office, contributing to our Playbook newsletter and coverage of Mayor Eric Adams, the City Council and politics and policy in New York City.
Internship date ranges and application deadlines:
Application Deadline: Application decisions will be rolling , and the last day to apply is November 15 at 5:00pm EST.Internship Dates: June 2025 - August 2025Hours: 40 Per WeekCompensation: $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
Application materials:
Resume
Cover Letter
Letter of recommendation
3-5 original clips to showcase your experience
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.
We value our people. Click here (https://www.politico.com/blogs/meet-politico/2017/08/24/faq-241910) for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.
Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here (https://recruiting.ultipro.com/PER1013PCLL/JobBoard/b972ff6a-41b7-4e97-9c71-273c2595c77d/?q=&o=postedDateDesc) and email us careers@politico.com. We hope to see your application soon!
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)