Dow Jones News Fund Internship Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Applications are open for the Dow Jones News Fund Internship Program 2026. The Dow Jones News Fund internship program has a legacy of excellence courting again to 1960. Each yr DJNF arranges paid internships for almost 100 school college students throughout the nation and gives them with superior fingers-on coaching, business mentors and a strong peer and alumni community to faucet into. Interns attend one-week coaching packages earlier than reporting to work in paid internships at prime media firms for 10 to 12 weeks.

Interns are allowed to decide on any of the next positions:

• Audience Engagement: Audience engagement internships range by newsroom, however the mission all the time stays the identical—assist the information discover its viewers. From writing search engine optimization-pleasant headlines and producing partaking content material for video and social to crafting newsletters and seizing on trending matters on social media, job expectations range. Previous internship placements embrace: Palm Beach Post, The Marshall Project, Austin American-Statesman and Houston Chronicle.
•  Business Reporting: They place reporters in additional than 30 newsrooms throughout the nation protecting all kinds of matters from Wall Street to Main Street, together with the inventory market, new companies and entrepreneurs, labor unions, minority-owned companies, actual property, local weather change, agriculture and automotive industries. Previous internship placements embrace: The Wall Street Journal, American City Business Journals, Barron’s, Insider, Fortune, American Banker, Detroit News and Automotive News.
• Data Journalism: There are three several types of knowledge internships we often place interns in: heavy emphasis on submitting information requests and analyzing knowledge utilizing spreadsheets; reporting and writing utilizing authorities knowledge or helping investigative reporting initiatives; and utilizing coding and technical instruments to construct apps and interactive visuals for information tales. Previous internship placements embrace: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Marshall Project, Investigative Reporting Workshop and IndyStar.
• Digital Media: Working as a digital media intern means many alternative issues, relying on the newsroom. You may very well be working in print, social, video, audio or all of it. Interns obtain throughout-the-board coaching to allow them to increase their ability units utilizing the most recent expertise and storytelling strategies. Previous internship placements embrace: Arizona Republic, Hawaii News Now, Epicenter-NYC and Storyful.
• Multiplatform Editing: Editors are the ultimate check on a narrative earlier than it’s revealed. Multiplatform enhancing interns assess copy for accuracy, completeness, tone and magnificence whereas additionally writing search engine optimization-pleasant headlines and designing pages on deadline. Previous internship placements embrace: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Stars & Stripes and San Francisco Chronicle.

Benefits

• Weekly salaries begin at $525.

Eligibility

• College sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate college students who’re enrolled in class full-time as of Nov. 5, 2025, are eligible to apply. This contains December graduates.
• U.S. college students learning overseas and worldwide college students already within the U.S. with work visas are additionally eligible.
• Former professionals (those that have labored full-time on employees as a journalist for a yr or extra) within the U.S. or overseas aren’t eligible.

Application

Have these paperwork prepared to connect earlier than beginning the application:

• Résumé
• Unofficial transcript. (For graduate college students, connect your undergraduate transcript)
• A 500-phrase essay: What was essentially the most impactful factor you probably did as a journalist prior to now yr? (Note: This query could also be interpreted very broadly. It may very well be a narrative, a subject, your management function on campus, class work, social media posts, and so on.)
• Samples of your work. Attach 3-5 clips of tales you wrote or hyperlinks to digital content material you produced. For knowledge journalism it’s possible you’ll connect code you might have written or a knowledge visualization you created; editors can present headlines, web page designs or social media posts. Note you have to mix your work samples into one PDF or Word doc.

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For extra info, go to Dow Jones News Fund Internship.