The Dow Jones News Fund seeks college students for paid, summer internships with media organizations across the country. Interns attend one-week training programs before reporting to work in paid internships at top media companies for 10 to 12 weeks. Weekly salaries start at $525. Interns who are enrolled full-time or graduates with federal loans are eligible for $1,500 scholarships.

In the application, you will be asked to indicate which training programs/internship positions interest you. You may select more than one. Your choices:

• Audience Engagement: Audience engagement internships vary by newsroom, but the mission always remains the same—help the news find its audience. From writing SEO-friendly headlines and producing engaging content for video and social to crafting newsletters and seizing on trending topics on social media, job expectations vary. 
• Business Reporting: We place reporters in more than 30 newsrooms across the country covering a wide variety of topics from Wall Street to Main Street, including the stock market, new businesses and entrepreneurs, labor unions, minority-owned businesses, real estate, climate change, agriculture and automotive industries. 
• Data Journalism: There are three different types of data internships we usually place interns in: 1) heavy emphasis on filing records requests and analyzing data using spreadsheets; 2) reporting and writing using government data or assisting investigative reporting projects; and 3) using coding and technical tools to build apps and interactive visuals for news stories.
• Digital Media: Working as a digital media intern means many different things, depending on the newsroom. You could be working in print, social, video, audio or all of it. Interns receive across-the-board training so they can expand their skill sets using the latest technology and storytelling techniques.
• Multiplatform Editing: Editors are the final check on a story before it is published. Multiplatform editing interns assess copy for accuracy, completeness, tone and style while also writing SEO-friendly headlines and designing pages on deadline. 

Please have these documents ready to attach before starting the application:

• Résumé

• Unofficial transcript. (For graduate students, attach your undergraduate transcript)

• A 500-word essay: Tell us about a time you had to swallow your pride.

• Samples of your work. Please attach 3-5 clips of stories you wrote or links to digital content you produced. For data journalism you may attach code you have written or a data visualization you created; editors can provide headlines, page designs or social media posts. Please note you must combine your work samples into one PDF or Word document.

ELIGIBILITY

College sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students who are enrolled in school full-time as of Nov. 14, 2024, are eligible to apply. This includes December graduates. U.S. students studying abroad and international students already in the U.S. with work visas are also eligible. Former professionals (those who have worked full-time on staff as a journalist for a year or more) in the U.S. or abroad are not eligible.

About Dow Jones News Fund

The Dow Jones News Fund is a nonprofit foundation that provides paid summer internships in more than 50 newsrooms across the country and week-long skills-based training programs for college students. In nearly six decades DJNF has prepared thousands of journalists who have gone on to become industry leaders who are redefining the culture of major newsrooms.

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