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Emily Liu

The Washington Post

Emily Liu is a news engineer at the Washington Post, where she covers live election results and builds news applications. She has previously done computational journalism research in automated fact-checking and studied computer science and journalism at Duke University.

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  1. How we improved the engineering internship recruitment process at The Washington Post

    We found better ways to help students find us, level the playing field for candidates, and make the process easier for everyone

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    Internships can be a great opportunity for students to gain professional experience and for employees to mentor the next generation of engineers, but news organizations that aren’t careful and intentional when recruiting can risk inadvertently over-indexing on candidates with the most access to time, money, and social connections. Since our team loves finding ways to make our processes better, we decided to examine our internship hiring process and see where we could make improvements.

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