Newsroom Summer Internship Program 2027: Content Strategy Editors

The Washington Post is a news organization focused on innovative, investigative storytelling across multiple formats and platforms. The Content Strategy Editors summer interns will help reach and engage audiences through social media, newsletters, audience analysis, and other audience-focused journalism strategies while collaborating with newsroom journalists.

What you'll do:

• You will focus on reaching and engaging audiences on and off platform
• For instance, a social media intern will use Instagram stories to break news, a newsletter intern will curate our flagship daily products, and an audience analyst intern will uncover trends and insights from data
• Social video interns will shoot and edit vertical video optimized for social viewing, ensuring strong hooks, pacing and clarity

What they're looking for:

• You must be a college junior, senior or graduate student enrolled in a degree program by the application deadline, which is noon Eastern time on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026
• You're driven to capture the stories that inform, educate, inspire and delight audiences, using different formats and mediums
• You thrive in fast-moving environments and on deadline
• You are eager to work across a large, ambitious, collaborative newsroom
• You are obsessed about finding ways to connect journalism with readers where they are and in storytelling formats that resonate with growth audiences
• You think about large and small strategies that can improve audiences' experience of journalism
• You have a commitment to accuracy, clarity and journalistic rigor

Benefits:

• Work alongside and learn from award-winning journalists