Editorial Internship, California Fall 2025
Editorial Internship, California Fall 2025
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Job Description
POLITICOs California team is seeking an editorial intern for Fall 2025. The intern will work from our Sacramento office and will play a critical role in our coverage of politics and policy in the nations largest state.
Internship date ranges and application deadlines:
Application Deadline: June 20 2025 at 5:00pm PST
Internship Dates: September 2025 December 2025
Hours: 40 Per Week for those who are not enrolled in college or university; 20 Per Week for college students.
Compensation: $23/HR
What Youll Do:
- Pitch report and write stories of consequence both for our audience of influential professionals in California and POLITICOs wider national readership
- Cover spot news in policy and politics in and around the state capitol
- Work with our California Playbook team to write and produce our daily newsletter on politics in the Golden State
- The intern will be involved in all aspects of content creation and production including research reporting writing editing and aggregating. A significant amount of this work will be in early morning hours
What Youll Need:
- A cando attitude initiative good time management and the ability to work well under pressure
- Strong critical thinking skills and a desire to not only develop your own story ideas but explain their broader meaning to a sophisticated audience.
- The ability to write quickly and cleanly while on deadline
- Prior handson experience as an intern at a professional news outlet and ideally experience working on a student publication
- A passion for politics and policy and a thirst to learn about California politics and government
- A commitment to fairminded nonpartisan journalism
Submission Materials:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- 35 original clips to showcase your experience. Please attach as PDFs or links that are publicly accessible
We welcome applicants who are recent graduates. Applicants who are still in school must at least be rising juniors. The ideal applicant will have experience at a school publication and/or previous experience at a professional news outlet.
We are driven by our values.We are relentless contributors disruptors of the status quo collaborators talent cultivators and DEI stewards. Our culture is defined by grit total integrity and a prioritization on innovation.
We value our people.Clickherefor more on what we offer and what its like to work for POLITICO.
Lets keep in touch.You can view our list of open positionshereand email us. We hope to see your application soon!
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Full-Time
