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Editorial/Communications Summer 2025 Intern
Ballotpedia
Magazine/News/Digital Journalism
Company Information
As an intern, you will go through a similar onboarding experience to full-time Ballotpedia employees. You will learn how to code the Ballotpedia website, be oriented to Ballotpedia’s style guide, learn about what we do to prevent and detect bias in our resources, and much more. Following orientation, you will join either the Communications, Editorial, External Relations or Tech teams, working alongside full-time staff members.
Qualifications
- Have a well-functioning computer with Internet access
- Some familiarity with Google Applications
Duties
- Work on articles on candidates and elections
- Assist our teams in news tracking and monitoring
- Research election results and input them into our database
- Research candidate stances and biographies
- Conduct research projects to improve overall data quality
- Participate in brainstorming sessions with experienced staff members
- Process new volunteer applications
- Work with volunteer program activities
- Assist with Ballotpedia’s social media & email products
- Respond to communications from a variety of external sources
- Assist in coordinating and completing webinars, briefings, or similar group events
- Assist with metrics and reporting data collection
- Help develop compelling presentations, infographics and reports
- Participate in promotional planning and activities
- Assist with video script writing and video image sourcing
- Find and analyze potential social media channels for Ballotpedia to join or track
Additional Notes
Ballotpedia’s summer 2025 internship runs from Monday, June 2, 2025 through Friday, August 1, 2025. Ballotpedia’s summer internship is a part-time internship program; interns will work approximately 10-20 hours per week depending on their availability.Ballotpedia is happy to facilitate credit for your internship experience if that is available to you. If you will be seeking credit for your internship, and if there is anything that Ballotpedia will need to do to assist you, please include that information in the same file as your cover letter.
How to Apply
Apply with external link.Please provide the following in PDF format:
résumé
cover letter which states your area of preference (Editorial or Communications), including the contact information for two professional references
neutral writing sample (under five pages)
Note: please include this in the same file as your cover letter
Please ensure that either your resume or your cover letter includes your current address. Applications that do not include a current address will not be accepted.
