Digital Desk Editor

The Washington Post; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 39,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

The Washington Post offers a flagship newsroom internship based in Washington, D.C., giving college juniors, seniors and graduate students hands-on experience in reporting, editing and multimedia storytelling. Interns collaborate with award-winning journalists and are treated as staff during the program.

You will edit stories, craft headlines, summaries and captions, and assist with homepage/app programming while delivering a strong reader experience under deadline pressure.

Qualifications

• College junior, senior or graduate student enrolled by the deadline.
• Strong understanding of style, grammar, and sentence structure; edit for clarity.
• Ability to work calmly under intense deadlines.
• Commitment to accuracy, clarity and journalistic rigor.

Responsibilities

• Edit stories across news, features and enterprise with accuracy and fairness.
• Write and refine headlines, summaries and photo captions for digital audiences.
• Help program The Washington Post homepage and app for a compelling reader experience across devices.
• Analyze data and contribute to audience strategy as part of the internship.

Skills

Editing

Journalism

Headlines

Data analysis

Education

College student

Job description

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.

About Our Team

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.

Why This Role Matters

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.

What Motivates You

• 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.

How You’ll Support The Mission

• You will edit stories across news, features and enterprise with a commitment to accuracy, clarity, fairness and accessibility.
• You will write and refine headlines, summaries and photo captions that are tailored for digital audiences.
• You will help program The Post’s homepage and app, delivering a compelling reader experience across devices.

The Skills And Experience You Bring

• 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 have a strong understanding of style, grammar and sentence structure, and are able to edit for clarity.
• You are able to work calmly under intense deadlines.
• You have a commitment to accuracy, clarity and journalistic rigor.

The deadline to apply 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.