Newsroom Summer Internship Program 2027: Designer

The Washington Post; Washington Township, Washington (IA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 2,412,000 - 2,421,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Access to newsroom

Mentorship

Job summary

The Washington Post invites qualified college juniors, seniors, and graduate students to join its flagship newsroom internship program in Washington, DC. Interns report, write, edit, photograph, shoot and edit video, design graphics, and contribute audience strategies while learning from award-winning journalists.

You will craft innovative visual packages across our website, mobile app, newsletters, and social media, experimenting with formats and stories.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled as a college junior, senior or graduate student by the deadline.
• Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript with strong visual design skills.
• Experience with photography and video is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create visual content and illustrations for multiple platforms.
• Contribute to innovative, content-driven storytelling across website, app and social media.
• Assist with graphics, layout and design for digital newsroom projects.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Photography

Video editing

Education

College or university student

Tools

Photoshop

InDesign

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 craft innovative, visual packages and presentations of our content across our website, mobile app, newsletters and social media. You will experiment with different storytelling formats. You will create engaging, content-driven illustrations for use across multiple platforms.

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 believe in the power of illustration and design to deepen engagement. You are a strong visual designer, able to work well on deadline, and have experience working with photography and video. You are proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop and InDesign. 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.

Your story awaits.