Audio/Video Intern, HQ (Spring 2027)

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the job description. We have: - About the role: The first paragraph: "POLITICO is seeking an exceptional college student or recent graduate for its Spring 2027 audio/video internship. This role offers hands-on experience in editorial production, content distribution and multimedia storytelling. You’ll work closely with producers and editors to support daily production needs while learning how a fast-paced newsroom creates and distributes journalism across platforms." - Who You Are: bullet points: "You’re excited about audio, video, podcasting, or digital storytelling", "You enjoy both creative and technical aspects of media production", "You’re eager to contribute to projects from pre- to post-production". Could be under "Qualifications" or "Skills". We'll decide. - What You’ll Do: list of duties: "Support daily audio and video production workflows across the team", "Conduct research on various topics, individuals and current events to support show editorial process", "Source archival footage, soundbites, and relevant assets for audio and video", "Assist with clipping interviews and live events", "Assist with recording sessions, live transcripts and provide production support in real time", "Help maintain organized production files, metadata, and documentation", "Upload and manage content across CMS, YouTube, podcast, and social platforms", "Collect performance metrics from various platforms". This is responsibilities. - What You’ll Need: list: "Strong passion for journalism, Washington, politics and policy", "Demonstrated Interest in multimedia production, editing, podcasting or platform innovation", "Familiarity with editing software, production tools, or social publishing platforms is a plus", "Ability to work quickly and efficiently under deadlines", "Excellent news judgement", "Entrepreneurial mindset", "Proven experience in a newsroom. At least one professional news media internship or job preferred". This could be qualifications/requirements/skills. - Why Intern at POLITICO? includes benefits: "Work on some of the biggest stories in Washington as they unfold, with a behind-the-scenes view of how news gets made", "Be a full-time associate producer. Work independently (and with your team) on shooting, clipping, editing, booking and more.", "Produce in the field as needed", "Build your skills through biweekly intern-specific trainings, newsroom sessions and direct feedback". Could be Benefits. - Internship Details: Dates: January-May 2027, Pay: $23/hr, Schedule: Hybrid, full-time 40 hours/week, Location: Arlington, VA (HQ), Application deadline: Monday, October 26 2026 at 11:59pm EST, Submission Materials etc. We need to include Pay and Schedule sections if they have real specific content. Pay: $23/hr is specific. Schedule: Hybrid, full-time 40 hours/week is specific. Benefits: we have some bullet points from Why Intern at POLITICO? Could be considered Benefits. Also location maybe not needed as a section; we could fold location into a short p under About the role or maybe not needed. The instruction: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it." So location could be a short p. We need to avoid boilerplate: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The "About Us" section is boilerplate? It's describing the company; maybe we can keep as About the role? Actually "About Us" is generic company description; could be considered boilerplate but it's substantive about the organization. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The "About Us" is not exactly those, but might be considered company overview; we could keep it as part of About the role? However we already have About the role from first paragraph. The "About Us" is more about the company; we could include as a separate section maybe "About POLITICO". But the allowed headings are limited to those listed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We cannot add other headings. So we must fit content into those headings. The "About Us" could be placed under About the role (makes sense). Or we could drop it if considered boilerplate. The instruction says remove boilerplate; "About Us" might be considered boilerplate but it's also substantive about the company's mission. However we already have About the role describing the internship; adding company overview may be okay but not required. Safer to include it under About the role as additional prose. We need to avoid repeating the job title as a heading. So no heading for title. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce sections:

About the role

POLITICO is seeking an exceptional college student or recent graduate for its Spring 2027 audio/video internship. This role offers hands-on experience in editorial production, content distribution and multimedia storytelling. You’ll work closely with producers and editors to support daily production needs while learning how a fast-paced newsroom creates and distributes journalism across platforms. POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital. Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes. Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist. Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself. These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization. POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today.

That's a lot but it's all from About Us. Might be okay. Then Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Support daily audio and video production workflows across the team
• Conduct research on various topics, individuals and current events to support show editorial process
• Source archival footage, soundbites, and relevant assets for audio and video
• Assist with clipping interviews and live events
• Assist with recording sessions, live transcripts and provide production support in real time
• Help maintain organized production files, metadata, and documentation
• Upload and manage content across CMS, YouTube, podcast, and social platforms
• Collect performance metrics from various platforms

Then Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: We need to decide which sections to include. We have content for Requirements (what you need) and Skills (familiarity with editing software etc). Could combine into Qualifications and Skills. But we should not create thin sections. Let's make:

Qualifications

• Strong passion for journalism, Washington, politics and policy
• Demonstrated interest in multimedia production, editing, podcasting or platform innovation
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently under deadlines
• Excellent news judgement
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Proven experience in a newsroom; at least one professional news media internship or job preferred

Skills

• Familiarity with editing software, production tools, or social publishing platforms (a plus)

But Skills section is thin (only one item). Might be considered thin; maybe we can merge into Qualifications. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So better to combine skills into Qualifications. So we can have just Qualifications section containing all. Thus:

Qualifications

• Strong passion for journalism, Washington, politics and policy
• Demonstrated interest in multimedia production, editing, podcasting or platform innovation
• Familiarity with editing software, production tools, or social publishing platforms (a plus)
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently under deadlines
• Excellent news judgement
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Proven experience in a newsroom; at least one professional news media internship or job preferred

Then Benefits:

Benefits

• Work on some of the biggest stories in Washington as they unfold, with a behind-the-scenes view of how news gets made
• Be a full-time associate producer; work independently (and with your team) on shooting, clipping, editing, booking and more
• Produce in the field as needed
• Build your skills through biweekly intern-specific trainings, newsroom sessions and direct feedback

Then Pay:

Pay

$23 per hour

Then Schedule:

Schedule

Hybrid, full-time 40 hours/week

We might also include Dates? Not a heading allowed. Could fold into About the role or maybe a short p after About the role. The instruction: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it." Dates could be considered minor metadata; we could add a short p after About the role: "Internship runs January–May 2027." But we already have About the role long; we could add a p after that. However we must not repeat the job title as a heading. Adding a p is fine. We should also include Location? Could be minor metadata; we could add a p after About the role: "Based in Arlington, VA (HQ)." But we already have location in About Us? Not exactly. We could add a short p. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the internship dates, location, maybe application deadline? The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should drop application deadline, submission materials, etc. That's considered application instructions. So we drop those. Thus we keep: Dates, Location, Pay, Schedule. Also maybe we should keep the "Hybrid, full-time 40 hours/week" as schedule. Good. Now we need to ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "We value our people. Click