Photography Internship-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lee Enterprises Inc; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 17,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short and long-term disability

401K with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Lee Enterprises’ St. Louis Post-Dispatch is seeking a paid photo/video intern for fall and spring to support news and sports coverage and tell dynamic stories. You will work with the visual team on breaking news, features, and portraits, using Canon gear to craft compelling visuals for digital platforms.

The internship runs from October through March, with an online portfolio required. We offer opportunities to hone visual skills, learn storytelling techniques, and build a portfolio while

Qualifications

• Interest in telling stories visually through photos and short videos.
• Ability to cover news, features, and sports with urgency.
• Portfolio demonstrating visual storytelling preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with news, sports and feature coverage for St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
• Capture photos and videos for digital platforms under deadline pressure.
• Help develop and present visual stories for varied audiences.

Skills

Photo storytelling

Sports photography

Video storytelling

Editing skills

Tools

Canon EOS R3

Job description

Photography Internship- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is seeking a paid photo/video intern, for the fall and spring, to help us with news and sports coverage, as well as to tell dynamic stories. The deadline to apply is September 4, 2026.

You’ll have the chance to cover everything from breaking news to college and professional sports (including NHL, MLS and major college games). You’ll also handle features and portraits. We want someone who can craft both stunning still images and engaging videos. You’ll be expected to work with urgency and immediacy for our digital platforms, but we’ll also provide the opportunity for you to develop visual stories.

Our visual team members work closely together and push one another. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Award and numerous NPPA awards are on our current staff.

We provide you with good quality camera gear (two Canon R3 bodies and R lenses), a PC computer, a mobile internet hot spot and a shared closet full of pool lenses.

Some of the skills that will support your success here are:

• An excitement about finding and telling stories visually, including single photos as well as short stories
• A keen interest in how you see and compose photos
• Technical proficiency and interest in how that improves visual storytelling
• An audience-first mindset

Greater St. Louis is a diverse region with 2.8 million residents. It is home to Fortune 500 companies, two major research universities, three pro sports teams and eclectic, vibrant neighborhoods. There are unlimited stories to tell here, and we want your help to bring those to life. This is an opportunity to hone your visual skills, develop new ones and build your portfolio.

The internship will run from October through the end of March. When applying, please include a link to an online portfolio that demonstrates your visual skills. We’d like to see your work in as many areas as you have experience in - news, features, sports, portraits, lighting, storytelling.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.

Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news and information and a major subscription and advertising platform, with daily and weekly newspapers and rapidly expanding digital products serving 114 markets across 25 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.