Newsroom Summer Internship Program Graphics Reporter

Join the future of news

We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

The Washington Post is seeking college juniors, seniors and graduate students for the newsroom’s flagship summer internship program. Our interns report and write articles, edit copy, take photographs, shoot and edit video, create graphics, produce audio, design on multiple platforms, develop audience strategy and do data analyses. They work alongside and learn from award-winning journalists, and we treat them as staff members during their internship.

• 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 should be able to utilize the entire storytelling toolbox – writing, reporting, charting, coding, mapping and data visualization – and know how to weave it all together to tell engaging stories.

• You will create, or assist in creating, news applications such as data-driven maps, databases, social media apps, widgets and mobile tools that will either stand alone or be paired with other digital content.

• You will work closely with reporters and editors in the newsroom, either through mining existing data online, taking in feeds or working with digital producers to imagine new ways to present information.

• You must be a college junior, senior or graduate student enrolled in a degree program by the Final date to receive applications, which is noon Eastern time on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026.

• You enjoy identifying stories best told through data visualization, maps or interactive experiences.

• You must be proficient in CSS(3), HTML(5), jQuery and JavaScript.

• You must have experience in developing with databases, XML, JSON, PHP and/or Django.

• You have a commitment to accuracy, clarity and journalistic rigor.

The Final date to receive applications is noon Eastern on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026.

This position will be based out of our Washington, D.C., headquarters. Interns are paid $1021.13/week.