Editorial Innovation Intern

Role Title: Editorial Innovation Intern 
Department: Innovation Team 
Company: Daily Mail / dmg media 
Location: High Street Kensington, London, UK 
Contract Type: Full-time Paid Internship (2 months, with strong potential for permanent hire upon 
successful completion) 
Target Audience: Early-career candidates, current university students, or recent graduates 

About the Role 
The Daily Mail is seeking a tech-literate and forward-thinking Editorial Innovation Intern to  join its cutting-edge Innovation Team. We are looking for an early-career journalist who is 
genuinely excited about how new technology can enhance journalism and who wants to spend their days building systems in one of the world's biggest newsrooms. Or someone from a tech background who wants to pursue a career in media. High performers will learn future-facing skills and have a clear pathway to transition into a permanent full-time role.

The successful applicant will sit within the Innovation Team, a new team that designs, tests, and ships the AI tools journalists use daily. That work is delivered through Mail iQ, a suite of AI-powered tools which helps journalists across all aspects of their work. Successful applicants do not need a formal background in journalism. But they do need an interest in emerging technology, a passion for news, and a strong desire to learn new ways of telling stories. Experience and experimentation using LLMs, or forward-facing tech platforms/processes are desired.  

Key Responsibilities 

• AI tool creation: Collaborate with the Innovation Team to design, test, and refine new AI agents and utilities within Mail iQ, dmg’s multi-agentic AI ecosystem.
• Investigations and special projects: Work alongside other desks in the newsroom, such as the award-winning Deep Dive team, on flagship journalism projects to build custom datasets using AI by analysing complex records.
• Content repurposing: Take existing Daily Mail reporting and use bespoke software to translate it into dynamic audio/visual formats, social assets, and other media for global distribution.
• Newsroom integration: Work dynamically across the newsroom to engage with subbing, pictures, graphics, design, social media, and data desks to identify workflow friction and build solutions.
• Journalist research & training: Continuously research new technological developments and translate them into useable information for the journalists. Help run hands-on training sessions to empower reporters and editors to adopt new tools effortlessly.
• Editorial quality control: Ensure that every AI workflow strictly upholds the Daily Mail’s rigorous editorial standards, enforcing human-in-the-loop oversight where accuracy and quality always take priority over raw speed.

Essential Requirements 

• Early career status: A recent graduate, or in the early stages of a tech, media, or product career.
• AI & tech fluency: A deep practical understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, and generative AI platforms.
• Exceptional capability to learn, evaluate, and master new software and digital tools at speed.
• Passion for News: A genuine interest in current affairs, pop culture, sport, global events, and the future of media.
• Evidence of an interest in the intersection of technology and journalism: Preferably a portfolio of work showing a project, blog, GitHub, newsletter or side hustle that shows it.

Desirable Skills 

• AI-assisted coding: Familiarity with using AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to build quick scripts, web tools, or prototypes.
• Data & visualisation: Experience with data analysis, Excel/Python, or creating interactive visual assets (charts, maps, timelines, graphics).
• Workflow automation: Knowledge of building light automations or integrations (e.g., via APIs, Zapier, Make, or custom scripts).
• Multimedia production: Basic editing skills in visual or audio software (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Figma, or AI multimedia generators).
• Clear communication: You will need to explain technical concepts to non-technical colleagues.

Not required 

• A journalism degree, an NCTJ, or prior newsroom experience.

What We Offer 

• Direct path to hire: Exceptional candidates will be considered for immediate, permanent, full-time placement upon completion of the internship.
• Real newsroom impact: The tools you work on will help tell stories to millions of readers globally from week one.
• Cutting-edge experience: Direct exposure to enterprise-level multi-agentic AI development in partnership with leading global technology providers such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
• Mentorship: Work directly alongside the Innovation Director, Innovation Editor, and Innovation Engineers, alongside investigative journalists, data specialists, and software engineers.

How to apply 
Send us a CV and a short covering note of 400 words telling us about one thing you have built, broken, automated or figured out with AI. You should also provide a bullet point list of ideas you think would provide the biggest benefit to the Daily Mail newsroom. Please include links to anything you've made or written: projects, repos, prototypes, visualisations, published work, or something you built for fun.

About Us

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.*

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 28 million total followers and nearly 45 billion views** in the past year.

*GA Sept 2024 **March 2024 - Feb 2025 inclusive

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.