The Wall Street Journal Visual Investigations Internship

About the Role

The Wall Street Journal internship program offers an opportunity primarily for college juniors to work with its award-winning data and visual investigations teams in New York. Graduate students enrolled in a degree program by the application deadline – October 31 – who are returning to school in the fall are also eligible. Graduating seniors should apply to WSJ News Associates.

Internship timing: 10 weeks between June and August.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute reporting, data analysis, open-source reporting, and visual verification to ambitious investigative projects and quicker-turn visual stories.
• Work cross-functionally with reporters and editors across the newsroom.
• Be immersed in audience-first visual storytelling that aims to reveal critical information through maps, video, satellite imagery, and interactive graphics.
• Gain hands-on experience analyzing large datasets and utilizing open-source intelligence (OSINT) to verify digital evidence and uncover hidden truths while maintaining rigorous editorial standards.
• Pitch editorially strong visual journalism, which may include data-driven interactives, maps, charts, and explanatory graphics.
• Experiment with AI-powered reporting workflows.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• An analytical approach to journalism, with experience cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data to support reporting.
• The ability to scrape and mold unstructured data using tools like Python, R, and SQL.
• Familiarity with JavaScript, D3.js, 3D modeling, animation, video editing, and open-source reporting techniques such as geolocation, video and photo verification is a significant bonus.
• Dedication to high journalistic standards and excellent reporting skills.

Qualifications

• Completed at least one prior reporting internship with another professional media organization or published exceptional data or visual or open-source investigative work with a campus news outlet or as a freelancer.
• A self-starter with a collaborative mindset who understands the needs of our audience across multiple platforms and is able to work independently under deadline pressure.
• A demonstrated interest in business reporting is a plus, though prior business/finance reporting experience is not required.

Application Process

Please upload one PDF document (max. 5MB). Your application should contain:

• A cover letter that highlights why you would be an asset to that desk.
• Your résumé.
• Three examples of your data, OSINT, and visual investigative reporting work (including links to interactive projects, published graphics, or code repositories), outlining your role and/or contribution.

Important Dates

• Application deadline: October 31 at midnight Eastern time.
• Internship timing: 10 weeks between June and August.
• Selections to be made by the end of January.