Major US daily covering national and international news with a West Coast perspective. Accepts op-eds and various submission formats via Submittable.

The Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the United states, with a daily readership of 1.2 million and 2.1 million on Sunday, more than 32 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.4 million. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Times has been covering Southern California for more than 136 years.

Los Angeles Times’ businesses and affiliates also include The Envelope, Hot Property, DesignLA, Times Community News, and Los Angeles Times en Español, The Times also owns L.A. Times Studios LLC and California Community News, LLC.

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The Los Angeles Times welcomes opinion articles on any subject. Submissions must be exclusive to us, meaning they have been sent only to us, not published online or in print elsewhere, including on personal blogs or social media channels. Most published articles are about 750 to 1,000 words in length.<div><br></div><div>Some general submission guidelines:</div><div><ul><li>Submissions must be sent by email to oped@latimes.com.</li><li>Please do not send pitches or partial submissions — a full draft of an article must be sent for it to be considered for publication.</li><li>Please put the name of the author followed by the topic in the subject line and paste the full text of the article into the body of the message.</li><li>Be sure to include day and evening telephone numbers and a short biography of the author. We do not consider anonymous or pseudonymous pieces.</li><li>We make every effort to read submissions promptly. We regret that the volume of submissions we receive means that we cannot respond individually to each article nor can we provide feedback to proposals or queries. We will try to respond within 48 hours of your submission if we wish to publish it. If you do not hear from us, you can assume we have declined your article.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your interest in the Los Angeles Times.</div><div><br></div>

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Submissions will be accepted for internships in audience engagement, digital editing and production on latimes.com. These are not reporting positions. Web internships do not require a car. This is a paid internship and placements usually run from June to August, with rolling start dates to accommodate school schedules.



Applicants must be actively working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree and must be eligible to work in the U.S. Graduates may qualify if finished school within six months of the internship start. Internships are for students who have not worked professionally as staff journalists.

Summer Digital / Audience Engagement Internship

LA Times Community News publishes daily online and four times a week in print editions distributed with the Los Angeles Times in Orange County. This intern will be responsible for breaking news, news features and weekenders and will be based in the Fountain Valley office. Reporters often write one to two stories a day, so only applicants with a record of producing deadline copy will be considered. Though this is a community newspaper, the Daily Pilot and TimesOC are owned by the Los Angeles Times and committed to high standards for newsgathering.<div>
The spring internship is structured to allow students the flexibility to gain experience while continuing their education. The internship can be either part-time or full-time depending on the student's schedule. Interns can start between January and March. Last spring, interns were paid $21 an hour. The entire internship is a total of 400 hours, which is equal to a 10-week internship at 40 hours a week or a 20-week internship at 20 hours a week.<br></div>

Applicants must be students or recent graduates (within six months) from Southern California colleges or universities, live locally, be actively working toward or have recently completed an undergraduate or graduate degree, and be eligible to work in the U.S.

Community News Spring Reporting Internship

We place reporting interns throughout the L.A. Times: Metro/Local, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Business, Editorial Pages, Foreign/National, Features (Fashion, Food, Travel, Home Design, Mind &amp; Body) and in our Sacramento bureau. These are paid internships and summer placements usually run from June to August, with rolling start dates to accommodate school schedules. We do not have fall internships.<br>

Applicants must be actively working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree or have graduated within six months of internship start. Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Summer Reporting Internship

Submissions will be accepted for the copy editing internship created in honor of Henry Fuhrmann, a former assistant managing editor at the Los Angeles Times and a longtime volunteer for the Asian American Journalists Assn. He oversaw the copy desk at The Times and was instrumental in determining its standards and practices.
<br><div>The internship is jointly funded by The Times and the Los Angeles chapter of AAJA. The copy editing internship does not require a car. Submit a brief cover letter; resume with three references; a school transcript (unofficial is acceptable); one-page personal essay; and links to any online work.
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Applicants must be actively working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree or have graduated within six months of the internship start date. Must be eligible to work in the United States. Internships are for students who have not worked professionally as staff journalists.

Henry Fuhrmann Multiplatform Editing Summer Internship

Submissions will be accepted for internships working alongside some of the best designers and art directors in the business. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a strong visual sense for design outside the classroom and have newsroom deadline experience. We're looking for interns to work in multiple areas of our expansive editorial operation, including News, Features, Sports and Business. Design internships do not require a car. These are paid internships and summer placements usually run from June to August, with rolling start dates to accommodate school schedules.<br>

Applicants must be actively working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree or have graduated within six months of the internship start. Must be eligible to work in the U.S. Internships are for students who have not worked professionally as staff journalists.

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Summer Digital / Audience Engagement Internship