Wall Street Journal Visual Investigations Internship

About the Role

The Wall Street Journal internship program offers an opportunity for college juniors and eligible graduate students to work with award-winning data and visual investigations teams in New York.

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

• Experience cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data to support reporting.
• 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 are required.
• Self-starter with a collaborative mindset.
• Understands the needs of our audience across multiple platforms.
• Able to work independently under deadline pressure.
• Demonstrated interest in business reporting is a plus.

Qualifications

• College juniors.
• Graduate students enrolled in a degree program by the application deadline (October 31) who are returning to school in the fall.
• Completed at least one prior reporting internship with another professional media organization OR published exceptional data, OSINT, or visual investigative work with a campus news outlet or as a freelancer.

Application Details

• Internship timing: 10 weeks between June and August.
• Application deadline: October 31 at midnight Eastern time.
• Submit one PDF document (max. 5MB) containing:
• A cover letter highlighting why you would be an asset to the 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.