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Interactive News Engineering Intern

New York, NYInternship2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Building newsroom software tools and features that empower journalists to report and serve millions of readers.

Role type

Summer intern, software engineer (frontend/backend)

Builds

Newsroom tools, data visualization features, and live event coverage pages

Domain

Digital journalism, news technology

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Svelte, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Git, AI-assisted development

Preferred skills

Collaborative project advancement, pushing technical limits for reader experience

Technologies

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Svelte, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, GitHub, Cursor, Claude

Responsibilities

Collaborate with developers, designers, and journalists to build newsroom tools; Contribute to technical design and development of new features; Support opportunistic data or document journalism using internal tools; Expand understanding of scalable software in a newsroom environment

Seniority

Intern