Editorial Internship, California Fall 2024
Politico
- Sacramento, CA
- $23.00 per hour
- Training
- Full-time
Internship Dates: September 2024 – December 2024
Hours: 40 Per Week
Compensation: $23/HRWhat You’ll Do:
- Pitch, report and write stories of consequence, both for our audience of influential professionals in California and POLITICO's wider national readership
- Cover spot news in policy and politics in and around the state capitol
- Work with our California Playbook team to write and produce our daily newsletter on politics in the Golden State
- The intern will be involved in all aspects of content creation and production, including research, reporting, writing, editing and aggregating. A significant amount of this work will be in early morning hours
- 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 about California politics and government
- A commitment to fair-minded, nonpartisan journalism
- A resume, cover letter and 3-5 clips, original clips are preferred