The Wall Street Journal Corporate Reporting Internship, New York (Summer 2025)

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 The Wall Street Journal Corporate Reporting Internship, New York (Summer 2025)

The Wall Street Journal internship program is an opportunity primarily for college juniors to work in our award-winning newsroom. Seniors and graduate students enrolled in a degree program by the application deadline are also eligible to apply. 

You will work closely with other reporters and editors to deliver prompt, accurate reporting of news. You will be expected to generate your own story ideas and follow those stories through to completion with supervision and guidance from an editor.

You should be a self-starter who understands the needs of our audience across multiple platforms and is able to work independently under deadline pressure. Dedication to high journalism standards and excellent writing and reporting skills are required. A demonstrated interest in business reporting is a plus, though prior business/finance reporting experience is not required.

You should have completed at least one prior reporting internship with another professional media organization or published exceptional work with a campus news outlet or as a freelancer.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please upload one PDF document (max. 5MB); You may upload a second PDF with your work examples if the files are large. Your application document should contain:

• A cover letter.

• An answer to the following prompt: (max. 500 words)
  Tell us about a work of journalism that you published (in any medium) that you’re proud of and why.

• Your résumé.

• Three examples of your published work. Please include full articles, not hyperlinks. 

The deadline to apply is Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024 at midnight Eastern time. Late or incomplete submissions will not be considered.

TIMING:

10 weeks between June and August.

Only finalists will be contacted. We will review applications on a rolling basis and strive to make selections by the end of January.

 

MORE QUESTIONS?

Visit medium.com/wsj-internships or email internships@wsj.com. First, please make sure your question isn’t already answered here. 

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