The Hechinger Report is a nonprofit news outlet that covers education across the United States. We’re a small newsroom with big ambitions to cover the most pressing issues facing classrooms and campuses. Our journalists travel across the country and the world asking tough questions, seeking out promising solutions, and listening to the voices of educators, families and kids. Here are the opportunities to join us in our mission.
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Data Reporting Internship
The Hechinger Report is searching for candidates for the Fazil Khan Memorial data reporting internship. During the 12-week internship, the intern will produce at least one data-focused feature story on an education issue that will appear on our site and potentially with one of our media partners. The intern also may assist with data analysis for other reporters and data visualizations.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with our experienced editors and reporters on in-depth journalism. The Hechinger Report’s award-winning coverage is known for its focus on how education policy affects students and educators in classrooms and on campuses.
The internship pays $700 a week and will begin Sept. 1, 2026. This is a remote position. An intern based in New York City would be able to interact with our staff there.
The Hechinger Report established this fund to honor Fazil Khan’s legacy as a data reporter. Khan, who moved to the U.S. from India to attend Columbia Journalism School, was a beloved colleague and star data journalist dedicated to exposing injustice. He died February 2024 in a fire in his Harlem apartment building. He was 27. During his time at Hechinger, Fazil used his data skills to create our College Welcome Guide and conducted the analysis that served as the backbone of our Suspended for… what? series.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- College student or bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field
- Comfort incorporating data into news and feature stories
- Ability to gather and interpret data from a variety of sources (including through public records requests) and to combine data from multiple sources
- Experience with cleaning messy data sets
- Solid understanding of at least one data analysis tool such as Excel, SQL, Python and/or R
- Ability to collaborate well with reporters
The application form has two essay questions, about why you chose data journalism and about a published data project that you worked on. We also request a copy of your resume and links to two published clips. (If they are behind a paywall, you can upload a file.)
The application deadline is June 7.
Please contact Sarah Butrymowicz, Senior Editor for Investigations, with any questions.
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