Digital Skills ltd
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Newsroom Engineering Intern; AI Literacy & Data Literacy
The Rate - Up to £42 per hour
IR35 Status - Inside
The Location - Canary Wharf
The Working Pattern - 35 hours per week
Duration - 6 months
About the Client
Digital Skills are working with a global news and media corporation that is developing technology to support ambitious investigative journalism. The organisation brings together editorial, product and engineering expertise to help journalists analyse large volumes of data and uncover connections that can lead to impactful stories.
About the Role
This is an opportunity for an early career technologist to work at the intersection of journalism, data and software development. You will help build practical tools and infrastructure that enable investigative journalists to ingest, search and understand complex datasets.
The role offers hands-on exposure to AI-enabled newsroom technology, including LLM pipelines and MCP agents, supported by mentorship from an experienced engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Support the ingestion and processing of large datasets.
- Help maintain stable and reliable data pipelines.
- Build and enhance tools that allow journalists to search data and identify relevant entities, relationships and connections.
- Build and integrate LLM pipelines and MCP agents into editorial workflows.
- Work with journalists to understand their editorial objectives and translate them into practical technology solutions.
- Produce clear, tested and maintainable code.
- Contribute to tools used in real investigative journalism projects.
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Desired Skills and Experience
- Strong AI literacy, with an understanding of how LLMs can be used to develop practical tools.
- Strong data literacy and an interest in finding meaningful insights within large or complex datasets.
- Working knowledge of Python, gained through coursework, personal projects, internships or other practical experience.
- Some exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- An interest in journalism and using technology to support meaningful editorial work.
- An ability to write clear, tested and well-documented code.
- Curiosity, problem-solving ability and an eagerness to learn.
- Exposure to Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code technologies would be beneficial.
- Experience with APIs, LLMs, MCP or agent-based systems would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of data pipelines, ETL processes or relational databases would be useful.
- Experience within, or working alongside, an editorial or media environment would be beneficial.
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Summary of the Best Candidate
The strongest candidate is likely to be a recent graduate or student nearing graduation, with practical Python knowledge and a genuine interest in AI, data and journalism. This is an early-career position, so aptitude, curiosity and evidence of relevant projects are more important than extensive commercial experience.
You will be comfortable working with data, interested in how LLMs and software agents can solve real-world problems, and motivated by the opportunity to build technology that supports investigative journalism. Exposure to cloud technology, data engineering or modern AI development would strengthen your application.
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