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POLITICO seeks an enterprising Tech Correspondent to report on technology policy, politics, regulation, and corporate influence across Washington and Silicon Valley. The role covers the administration, Congress, federal agencies, campaigns, and global technology policy, producing breaking news, enterprise reporting, newsletters, and digital stories. The reporter will build extensive source networks, explain complex issues clearly, collaborate across global teams, and deliver accurate, nonpartisan journalism on AI, antitrust, privacy, cryptocurrency, telecommunications, broadband, and emerging technologies.

Report on how technology companies, executives, investors, lobbyists, and political operatives shape policy and political strategy. The correspondent will break news, cultivate high-level sources, produce enterprise and investigative reporting, and explain complex technology, regulatory, and political developments. Coverage includes AI, antitrust, privacy, copyright, content moderation, cryptocurrency, semiconductors, export controls, and the technology workforce across Silicon Valley, Washington, Brussels, and other global centers.

Reporting interns will cover breaking news, policy, White House, or Playbook assignments; conduct research, aggregation, fact-checking, and write news stories, newsletters, and podcasts. The role requires strong reporting, writing, news judgment, deadline management, and political and policy interest. Interns work full time in a hybrid Arlington newsroom, report from the field as needed, and participate in training and feedback sessions.

Newsroom Engineering Interns will research newsroom workflow challenges, build and test internal tools, write code, prototype solutions, and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for accuracy, usefulness, risk, and editorial fit. The role involves collaborating with reporters, editors, product managers, and engineers while owning a scoped project that improves newsroom operations. Candidates should demonstrate journalistic instincts, technical aptitude, interest in politics and policy, newsroom experience, and familiarity with digital tools or prototyping.

Reports on California politics and policy from the State Capitol, contributing to the California Playbook newsletter and broader coverage. Responsibilities include researching, reporting, writing, editing, aggregating content, covering spot news, and meeting fast deadlines. The intern works with the California Playbook team, may work early or late hours, reports in the field as needed, and participates in newsroom training and feedback sessions.

Reporting intern will pitch, research, report, write, edit, and produce political and policy news for POLITICO’s New York coverage and daily newsletter. Responsibilities include covering spot news, developing enterprise stories, aggregating content, meeting deadlines, and occasionally reporting in the field or working early mornings. The role is a full-time hybrid summer internship for college students and recent graduates.

Supports POLITICO’s newsroom through photo coverage, sourcing, editing, visual research, image selection, photography assignments, captioning, metadata creation, file organization, and visual storytelling. Collaborates with reporters, editors, photo editors, and staff photographers on breaking news, events, portraits, and enterprise stories while developing photojournalism and newsroom production skills.

Reports on New Jersey legislation, lawmakers, the governor, state agencies, and politics from the Statehouse in Trenton. Responsibilities include researching, writing, aggregating, producing stories and newsletters, covering breaking and enterprise news, and contributing to a collaborative newsroom serving state and national audiences. The role requires strong reporting and writing skills, news judgment, efficiency under deadlines, entrepreneurial initiative, and demonstrated interest in New Jersey politics and policy.

Report on Florida legislation, lawmakers, the governor, state agencies, and state politics for in-state and national audiences. Responsibilities include researching, reporting, writing, aggregating content, contributing to newsletters, covering breaking and enterprise news, and working efficiently under deadlines. The intern will work independently and collaboratively from Tallahassee, participate in newsroom training, and report in the field as needed.

Report and write breaking news and policy stories for POLITICO’s audience. Interns will cover Washington developments, work independently and with reporting teams, meet fast deadlines, produce enterprise and newsletter content, and report in the field as needed. The role includes newsroom training and feedback. Candidates should demonstrate strong reporting and writing, news judgment, political and policy interest, entrepreneurial initiative, and newsroom experience.