Digital Production Internship, Spring 2026

Who we are

Founded in 1923, W. W. Norton is the oldest and largest independent and employee-owned publishing house, publishing works of Nobel laureates, master teachers, and Pulitzer Prize winners. For over a century, Norton has been dedicated to achieving a common goal: to bring to readers and students enduring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as high-quality textbooks and digital learning tools.

About the internship

W. W. Norton is looking for interns to participate in our twelve-week internship program.  Our internship program provides participants with an engaging, supportive, and hands-on learning experience in publishing that includes educational lunch sessions and networking within the intern class. Your work if you become a Norton intern with the Digital Production team may include the following:

• Developing ebooks for Norton Library and Norton Critical Edition titles. With the assistance of an Ebook Producer, the Digital Publishing intern will create ebooks of Norton Library and Norton Critical Edition titles. This process includes organizing raw production material and coordinating with multiple teams throughout quality assurance.
• Implementing post-publication corrections and accessibility updates to the ebook backlist. Occasionally, the titles we already published need to be corrected. These corrections may involve legal changes, fixes to errata, or fixes to functional problems. Titles also may need to be updated to improve accessibility, including adding alternative text or metadata.
• Digital archiving of Instructor Resources, art logs, and ebook production files. At the end of the publishing process, producers in Media and Ebook Production bundle all the assets they have built (and the raw material they were built from) and generate an archival copy. These archives must be maintained according with preservation, organization, and cataloguing standards so they may be easily referenced, and files readily retrieved, when we start projects for new editions.
• Creating Living Art Logs. Editorial teams request art log set ups in Smartsheet at the beginning of projects.
• Completing closed captioning requests. To ensure that our digital content is accessible for all users, editorial teams send MP4 files for closed captioning creation. The Digital Publishing Intern will help with fulfilling these requests.

Why you’ll be a great fit

We are excited to add interns who bring diverse perspectives to Norton. The ideal candidate is curious, hardworking, and eager to learn more about the different facets of publishing. Here are some skills and qualities we look for in candidates: 

• You are a college junior, senior, recent graduate, or someone looking to make a career change. 
• You are eager to improve your verbal and written communication skills.
• You enjoy collaborating and working in a group to solve challenges.
• You have a passion for learning and ideas. 
• You have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• You have experience or a willingness to learn HTML/CSS
• You have an interest in the digital side of publishing or in developing your technical skills

Internship details

• Interns are paid $16.50 per hour, subject to applicable law, and work a maximum of 20 hours weekly.
• Internship period is twelve weeks from 2/2/2026-4/24/2026
• Our workday is 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time; specific work hours are flexible to accommodate an intern’s schedule.
• The Digital Production internship will be fully remote.
• Eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required.