Newsroom Summer Internship Program 2027: Data Journalist
Core
Summer intern acquiring, cleaning, and analyzing data to support investigative journalism and storytelling.
Role type
Summer intern data journalist
Builds
Data-driven news articles and visualizations for The Washington Post
Domain
News media / Data journalism
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | research | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Data acquisition, data cleaning, data analysis, R, Python, journalistic rigor
Preferred skills
Data visualization, GitHub, sharp writing
Responsibilities
Acquire, clean and analyze data; present results to reporters and editors; write stories; suggest possibilities for visualization and presentation
Seniority
Intern
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