Weekend Edition & Science Desk Internship - Fall 2026

Company Information

This internship will be divided into two phases: first at Weekend Edition, NPR’s weekend morning newsmagazine, and then at the Science Desk. 

From October through January,  the intern will be at Weekend Edition, where they will learn how to pitch and produce news stories for a weekend audience, dive into feature interview production, and take the lead in producing the signature Sunday Puzzle segment with Will Shortz. The intern will work directly with hosts Scott Simon and Ayesha Rascoe, alongside our talented and collegial staff of producers and editors.

From January through April, the intern will join the Science Desk, where they will report and produce digital stories for the desk’s three sections: domestic health, global health and development and general science. The intern would be expected to pitch ideas jumping off of news developments, take assignments from desk editors, and assist NPR correspondents in reporting stories. They’d be expected to assess scientific papers to determine newsworthiness. The intern would then produce those stories for NPR’s website in a timely fashion.  

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.
• Journalism/news reporting or editing experience
• Excellent research skills and an eye for a new angle/perspective on major news stories
• The ability to find the right expert or first-person voice to illustrate a complicated news topic
• PREFERRED: audio production experience

Duties

• Pitch ideas for host interviews on news and feature topics
• Pre-interview and book guests
• Report and produce stories on general science, domestic health and global health
• Collaborate with NPR Science desk reporters and editors
• Produce live and pre-recorded host interviews, including managing recordings and editing audio

How to Apply

Apply with external link.

Application Deadline

July 12th, 2026

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublicradioinc/jobs/4704027005