Join Our Team! We’re Hiring for the Following Positions:

Editor

The Washington Monthly is looking for a talented journalist to be its newest editor.

Since 1969, the Monthly has been a leading voice in liberal policy circles. (New York Times op-ed columnist David Leonhardt recommended it as the policy magazine to subscribe to.) Our staffers routinely appear on national and international radio stations, like NPR, Sirius XM, and the BBC. And the unique editor position has long been known as a training ground for successful journalists. Past editors include James Fallows (The Atlantic), Nicholas Confessore (New York Times), Benjamin Wallace-Wells (The New Yorker), Michelle Cottle (New York Times), and Eric Cortellessa (TIME). We’re a small publication that routinely punches above its weight, and we do so by recruiting and developing world-class talent.

The position is a hybrid of staff writer and editor. On the editing side, your responsibilities will cover the full spectrum of putting a magazine and website together, from developing story ideas and working with writers to line-editing their pieces to perfection. On the writing side, you will produce deeply reported longform features on a wide range of political and policy topics. With its mix of responsibility, mentorship, and throw-you-into-the-fire experience, this job is a rare opportunity to develop your talents as a writer, editor, and policy expert.

About you: We’re less interested in what you’ve done than what you’re capable of doing. So while full-time journalistic experience is a plus, it’s not a requirement. What is a requirement is that you be a strong, clear writer with a great deal of intellectual curiosity and a healthy sense of humor. People from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to apply:

  • Send a resume, cover letter, and links to two to four published clips to jobs@washingtonmonthly.comwith “Editor/Writer Search” in the subject line.

Editorial Interns

The Washington Monthly hires thoughtful, creative, driven interns for stints throughout the year. We have a small staff that produces big stories, so expect to work closely with editors on our website and quarterly print magazine. We are a nonprofit, independent voice with over 57 years of experience understanding Washington and telling fascinating, deeply reported stories about the ideas and characters that animate America’s government. This is not a place where observe journalism from the sidelines; you’ll be expected to research and fact check stories, pitch your own stories for the site, and help manage our social media accounts.

This is a part-time, paid position, and we can do our best to accommodate a second job if necessary. No phone calls, please.

“The Washington Monthly was an amazing place to do an internship. That’s where it cemented for me that I wanted to be journalist.”

– Ezra Klein

Recent interns have gone on to work for the following publications: Washington Post, Politico, Politico Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, the Week, American Prospect, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Applicants should have an interest in politics and journalism. People of color, women, and LGBTQ people are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are currently accepting applications for Winter 2027 interns. We will solicit applications for the Summer editorial internships in March.

To apply, please e-mail a cover letter, resume, and two clips to jobs@washingtonmonthly.com — and mention ‘internship’ in the subject line.

Submissions

The Washington Monthly is a publication covering politics, government, culture and the media. Our editors welcome story pitches that suit our editorial mix. Please submit query letters in writing to editors@WashingtonMonthly.com.

Before you pitch a story to us, we recommend you read through a few of our back issues online or in print to get a feel for the type of investigative, system-analysis journalism we value and promote. We do not publish writing generated with AI assistance.

The magazine is published four times a year and includes investigative and opinion-based feature articles (2,000 to 5,000 words), occasional short news items and humorous sidebars (500 to 1,400 words), and book reviews of recent political and cultural titles (usually about 1,500-3,000 words). We occasionally print excerpts from forthcoming political books. We don’t publish fiction, poetry, or celebrity profiles.

Due to the volume of mail we receive, we regret that we cannot respond to every story pitch.