Morning Edition & NPR Politics Internship - Fall 2026

Company Information

This internship will be divided into two phases: first at Morning Edition, NPR’s weekday morning newsmagazine, and then at NPR’s Washington Desk, which covers  the White House, Congress, politics, national security and other critical beats.

From October through January, the intern will be at Morning Edition, where they will learn what it takes to put on a daily news magazine program, as well as learn the basics of radio production and editing. This will include learning to craft and pitch story ideas, helping identify guests for program interview segments, prepare questions for host interviews, assisting  in the production of individual stories both inside the studio and in the field, working on digital stories and other tasks that may be assigned. In addition, the intern may have the opportunity to work the various show shifts  and work on a longer-term project such as a host trip or special coverage involving the upcoming Midterm Elections. 

From January through April, the intern will be at the NPR Washington Desk, where they will continue to build on the skills they learned in the first part of the program. As NPR Politics Intern, they will play a key role in conducting research for reporters and editors, maintain the desk’s calendar of events, build clipboards for radio pieces, build digital story pages, log interviews, and have the opportunity to write for the web. Candidates must have a demonstrated interest in journalism, as well as government and politics.

Qualifications

• Must be a current student in an accredited degree program or a recent graduate of no more than 12 months from the month of the start of the internship.
• Strong interest and familiarity with news, politics, government and current events
• Willingness to learn and interest in honing journalism, reporting, producing and editing skills
• Excellent research skills and an eye for a new angle/perspective major news stories
• Some journalism/news reporting (such as an internship at a local public radio station or a job at a college radio station)

Duties

• Pitching ideas for host interviews on news and feature topics for Morning Edition
• Pitching news and feature stories
• Booking guests for the programs, including doing phone pre-interviews
• Conduct research for Washington Desk editors and reporters
• Assisting with the recording, producing and editing of host interviews and radio pieces, including learning how to gather sound in the field, build radio pieces, cut interviews, construct audio clipboards and log tape

How to Apply

Apply with external link.

Application Deadline

July 12th, 2026

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublicradioinc/jobs/4704240005