Interns hone their visual design, headline writing and line editing skills at one-week training sessions on college campuses before beginning internships where they help publish high-quality print and digital content on tight deadlines for some of the nation’s most respected media outlets.
To apply to any or all of the DJNF college internship programs, students must complete an online application, attach supporting documentation and take a test proctored at their college or university by Nov. 1.
Students must complete an online application where you will be prompted to create your candidate profile and answer job-specific questions for each program. Applicants must also include:
- a 500-word essay
- a résumé
- an unofficial college transcript
Students are required to complete a one-hour test to be considered for internships. The multiplatform editing and business reporting internship applicants take different versions of the test from the applicants for the digital media and data journalism internships. Students applying to all programs must take all three versions. Use the link below to locate and contact your school’s monitor to schedule a test time. Tests are sent to professors in early fall and testing continues up to the application deadline. To prepare, review previous versions of the editing and business reporting tests available below.
College juniors, seniors and graduate students are eligible to apply for a Multiplatform Editing internship as long as they are enrolled full-time by the Nov. 1 deadline. This includes December graduates. Freshmen, sophomores, recent graduates and former professional journalists are not eligible.
Yes, you may apply for any of the programs for which you would like to be considered. After completing your first application, you will only need to complete the job specific questions on subsequent applications. Please note that your candidate profile will be the same for all applications, and therefore, the last attachments uploaded (resume, essay, press clips and transcript) will be the ones considered for all programs.
Each applicant must take an in-person test monitored by a teacher or employee of their college. Applicants will only be considered if they apply online and complete the qualifying test. Visit the Dow Jones News Fund website for a list of journalism professors and career counselors who have signed up to be test monitors.
If there is no test monitor on your campus, you may recruit a professor or media adviser at your school to be your monitor. (Students cannot be monitors.) Once you find someone to serve as your monitor, send djnf@dowjones.com an email with "digital test," “editing test,” "business reporting test" or "DJNF internship tests" in the subject line. In the body of the email enter the name, address, university, department, city, state, zip code, email address and office and home phone numbers of the professor who has agreed to be your monitor. Also, include your full name, mailing address, school, telephone number and email address.
Those studying abroad should recruit a professor at the university they are attending.
Send djnf@dowjones.com an email with the test name in the subject line (i.e. DJNF Multimedia Editing Test), in the body of the email enter the name, address, university, department, city, state, zip code, email address and office and home phone numbers of the professor who has agreed to be your monitor. Be sure to include the country and international phone numbers. Also, include your full name, mailing address, school, telephone number and email address.
Confirm the required fields marked with asterisks are completed. Certain fields must also match conditional rules, such as the email (example@gmail.com) phone number (10 digits) and the zip code must match the city. Once the application is successfully submitted, you will receive a confirmation email.
Yes, to edit your application after hitting the submit button, log back in to the portal and select the withdraw button next to the application you would like to edit. After withdrawing, select “view opportunities” to open the application.
The maximum file size for each document is 5MB.
It is best to use MSWord documents or PDFs. Files may be uploaded using Google Drive and Dropbox.
Describe your journalistic skills that make you an asset in an interactive newsroom whether working as a business reporter, data journalist, digital journalist or news editor. Upload a PDF or Word document containing no more than 500 words.
The News Fund begins notifying interns in December, and continues into the New Year until all the media requests are fulfilled.
We are open to international students who are already in the U.S. and authorized to work here on student visas. We do not transport students from abroad or ask employers to sponsor international students to come here.
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Previous versions of the editing and business reporting tests can be found on EditTeach.org and Scribd.com.
College juniors, seniors and graduate students are invited to apply to the Dow Jones News Fund for paid summer 2018 internships in data journalism, digital media, business reporting and multiplatform editing.
Eleven college students spent 10 days at The University of Texas at Austin as part of the Dow Jones News Fund’s multimedia editing internship program producing three print issues of the Southwest Journalist, as well as a companion online news site, swjournalist.com.
Sherman Hewitt, Felipe De La Hoz, Dani Malakoff, Avery Hall, Ashleigh Wilson and Jared Servantez share their experiences at the pre-internship residency programs.