Jobs at The Seattle Times

Paid 10-week internship managing a newspaper homepage, curating headlines, promoting breaking news, monitoring trends, producing analytics reports, conducting A/B headline tests, and developing social media storytelling and promotion plans. The role supports newsroom teams with SEO and coverage insights and requires weekend work. It is focused on digital news promotion and audience engagement rather than reporting or writing.

Paid 10-week graphics internship creating maps, charts, illustrations, and visual story concepts for news, features, business, and sports coverage. Interns collaborate with editors and graphic artists, receive feedback, and meet assignment deadlines. The role requires strong data visualization, drawing, mapping, and design skills, along with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop experience. Applicants must be current college or graduate students with journalism interest or experience and submit a portfolio.

Paid 10-week photojournalism internship providing photo coverage for news, features, business, and sports assignments across the Puget Sound and Washington. Interns generate story ideas, meet deadlines, receive editorial feedback, and attend newsroom training. Applicants must be enrolled college or graduate students committed to journalism, have social media and digital skills, provide their own photo equipment and reliable vehicle, and submit references and a portfolio featuring diverse photographic and video work.

Paid 10-week journalism internship involving daily reporting, breaking news and enterprise assignments, interviewing sources, producing accurate digital and print content, collaborating with photo and graphics teams, and pitching story ideas. Interns must demonstrate journalism commitment, reporting, writing, multimedia and social media skills. The role requires enrollment as a college junior, senior, graduating senior or graduate student, a personal vehicle, five reporting samples and three references.

Paid 10-week newsroom internship focused on copy editing stories for print and web, writing platform-specific headlines, and producing digital news alerts and newsletters. Interns collaborate across the newsroom while maintaining standards for accuracy, ethics, fairness, taste, and inclusivity. The role requires strong language and editing skills, basic AP style knowledge, digital fluency, journalism study or commitment, and availability for nights and weekends.

Paid 10-week summer internship reporting and writing stories ranging from breaking news to enterprise. Interns collaborate on newsroom-wide projects, cultivate diverse community sources, and learn newsroom tools and platforms. The role requires strong reporting, writing, and multimedia skills, along with social media and digital proficiency. Applicants must be college or graduate students studying journalism or demonstrating commitment to print or online journalism, and must submit references and five reporting samples.

Paid 10-week journalism internship writing accurate, balanced stories across arts, food, culture, lifestyle, travel, and outdoors. Interns report breaking news and in-depth features, pitch original ideas, meet deadlines, communicate with editors, and contribute multimedia and digitally focused work. Applicants must be enrolled college or graduate students with journalism or demonstrated journalism experience, strong reporting and writing skills, social media and multimedia abilities, and interest in relevant subject areas.

Creates, edits, and manages branded content, blog posts, white papers, and organic social media. Coordinates freelance writers, designers, videographers, clients, sales, and internal teams to deliver high-quality work on schedule. Develops editorial guidelines, manages content calendars and production workflows, participates in client meetings, and monitors performance analytics to improve content strategy. The role is hybrid in Seattle and requires strong writing, editing, organization, collaboration, and digital content expertise.

Reports on early childhood and elementary education, covering childcare, education policy, equity, costs, and solutions. Develops daily, enterprise, and watchdog stories; conducts empathetic interviews; files public records requests; analyzes databases; and collaborates with visual journalists. Engages underserved communities, uses digital-first reporting tools, contributes to breaking news coverage, and works occasional weekend and holiday shifts.

Pressroom Associates organize, stack, and prepare freshly printed products for delivery while supporting press operations. Responsibilities include following work orders, maintaining a clean press area, aligning products on pallets, complying with safety procedures, reporting equipment issues, and making minor repairs or adjustments. The role requires a changing schedule, overtime availability, physical lifting, ladder climbing, and basic English proficiency. Warehouse or industrial experience is preferred but not required, with training available.