Jobs at The Washington Post

Provide high-touch logistical and administrative support to the Acting Publisher & CEO: manage office supplies, meeting and event logistics, travel arrangements, documentation, briefings, and hospitality; maintain databases and shared spaces; handle confidential information with discretion; run errands and support ad-hoc executive needs in a fast-paced newsroom environment.

Leads The Washington Post’s creator-content portfolio, including strategy, creator partnerships, contract negotiations, production investments, editorial standards, budgets, distribution, and performance. The role oversees creator-led programming, manages cross-functional stakeholders and external partners, drives audience and commercial outcomes, and advises senior leadership on creator-economy trends and opportunities.

Build, test, deploy, and operate customer-facing subscription experiences across the full stack. Develop React and JavaScript/TypeScript frontends, Java backend services, and Node.js tooling. Contribute to AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monorepo tooling, observability, and production support. Own features through deployment and improvement, participate in on-call rotation, collaborate with product and engineering partners, and use AI-assisted tools for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.

Design, build, deploy, and operate production AI/ML systems for generative AI, search, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, personalization, and intelligent reader experiences. Translate research prototypes into scalable, low-latency services; develop ML platforms, feature pipelines, model serving, inference, observability, and optimization systems. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and roadmap development.

Leads the Opinions section’s audio and video strategy, translating editorial ideas into compelling multimedia storytelling. Oversees production workflows, budgets, timelines, distribution, and audience engagement across digital platforms. Partners with editors, writers, and columnists while identifying new formats and channels. The role may supervise and mentor multimedia professionals, uphold factual accuracy and editorial standards, and drive innovation in a newsroom environment.

Edit and refine press freedom newsletters and social video scripts for clarity, accuracy, engagement, and consistent voice. Collaborate with writers, producers, and editors to meet deadlines, strengthen storytelling and context, and improve audience experience across written and visual formats. The role requires strong copyediting, writing, storytelling, and familiarity with newsletter and social video workflows.

Leads The Washington Post’s public and corporate affairs advertising partnerships team, driving multi-million-dollar revenue growth. Builds senior client and agency relationships, develops account strategies, sells integrated media campaigns, represents the organization at industry forums, advises clients on market trends, and oversees team performance, forecasting, and pipeline health. Manages and develops high-performing sales teams across prospecting, business acquisition, and account retention.

Lead the daily editorial operation of The 7 Live, a short-form journalism feature across The Washington Post’s web and app. Establish its editorial voice, workflows, standards and programming rhythms; assign and edit timely stories; collaborate across newsroom, Product, Visuals and Content Strategy teams; use audience analytics to refine programming; and experiment with formats and presentation to build reader engagement and habit.

The intern will report and write breaking news and enterprise stories, edit copy, and collaborate across the newsroom on multi-format storytelling. Responsibilities may include photography, video, audio, graphics, design, audience strategy, and data analysis. Interns work on deadline, pursue accurate and rigorous journalism, and contribute as staff members while learning from experienced journalists.

Summer newsroom interns report and write stories, create graphics, and develop interactive digital experiences. This graphics-focused role involves building data-driven maps, databases, widgets, mobile tools, and news applications using coding, data mining, feeds, and visualization. Interns collaborate with reporters, editors, and digital producers while maintaining accuracy, clarity, and journalistic rigor. Applicants must submit a resume, essay, and portfolio of five to ten work samples.

Edit news, feature, and enterprise stories for print, ensuring accuracy, clarity, fairness, accessibility, and journalistic rigor. Write and refine headlines and photo captions tailored to print readers while working calmly under intense deadlines. Interns collaborate with journalists in a fast-moving newsroom and submit edited clips demonstrating their editorial contributions.

Summer data journalism interns will acquire, clean, and analyze data; write stories; support visualization and presentation; and collaborate with reporters and editors on quick-turn coverage and larger projects. The role requires technically adept reporting, strong writing and visualization skills, accuracy, clarity, journalistic rigor, and proficiency in R or Python. Interns must be college juniors, seniors, or graduate students enrolled in a degree program by the application deadline.

Summer visual journalism interns will collaborate with reporters and editors on breaking news, features, and visually driven enterprise stories. Responsibilities may include field photography, video shooting and editing, copy editing, graphic creation, audio production, platform design, audience strategy, and data analysis. Interns are expected to work accurately and creatively under deadline while contributing across a collaborative newsroom.

Summer design intern creating innovative visual packages, illustrations, and digital storytelling presentations for The Washington Post’s website, mobile app, newsletters, and social media. The role involves experimenting with storytelling formats, working with photography and video, and delivering accurate, clear, engaging designs in a fast-paced newsroom environment.

Paid summer newsroom internship for college juniors, seniors, and graduate students. The Digital Desk Editor will edit news, features, and enterprise stories; write headlines, summaries, and captions; program the homepage and app; and optimize content for digital audiences. The role requires strong grammar, editing, accuracy, journalistic rigor, deadline management, and digital storytelling skills. Applicants must submit a resume, autobiographical essay, and up to six edited news or feature clips.

Summer interns develop audience and content strategies for The Washington Post newsroom. Responsibilities may include curating newsletters, creating social media content, shooting and editing vertical video, analyzing audience data, and supporting accurate, clear, engaging journalism across platforms. Interns collaborate with newsroom teams, work on deadlines, and produce portfolio-quality work in multiple storytelling formats.

Sets the product design vision and strategy for The Washington Post’s digital portfolio, driving subscriber growth, engagement, retention, and product quality. Leads design for premium subscriber experiences, visual identity, design systems, personalization, and emerging interaction models. Builds and develops a high-performing product design organization while partnering with Product, Technology, Editorial, and business leaders to shape strategy and deliver accessible, distinctive customer experiences.

Design, develop, deploy, and operate subscription applications and services across the full stack. Own AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability, incident response, and production operations. Build Java backend services, Node.js tooling, and contribute to React applications. Improve reliability, automation, and engineering workflows, participate in on-call rotation, communicate technical decisions, mentor engineers, and apply AI-assisted tools throughout the engineering lifecycle.

Assign, edit and mentor visual journalism projects—data visualizations, maps and interactive stories—balancing breaking-news graphics with enterprise work. Pitch and shape graphics-led coverage, provide editorial and technical guidance, and uphold accuracy, accessibility and newsroom standards while supporting team processes and professional growth.

The Video Editor will edit podcasts, interviews, and social videos, ensuring quality storytelling for The Washington Post while managing multiple projects and deadlines.