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 dating back to 1960. Each year DJNF arranges paid internships for nearly 100 college students across the country and provides them with advanced hands-on training, industry mentors and a robust peer and alumni network to tap into. Interns attend one-week training programs before reporting to work in paid internships at top media companies for 10 to 12 weeks.

Interns are allowed to choose any of the following positions:


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  • 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. Previous internship placements include: Palm Beach Post, The Marshall Project, Austin American-Statesman and Houston Chronicle.
  •  Business Reporting: They 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. Previous internship placements include: The Wall Street Journal, American City Business Journals, Barron’s, Insider, Fortune, American Banker, Detroit News and Automotive News.
  • Data Journalism: There are three different types of data internships we usually place interns in: heavy emphasis on filing records requests and analyzing data using spreadsheets; reporting and writing using government data or assisting investigative reporting projects; and using coding and technical tools to build apps and interactive visuals for news stories. Previous internship placements include: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Marshall Project, Investigative Reporting Workshop and IndyStar.
  • 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. Previous internship placements include: Arizona Republic, Hawaii News Now, Epicenter-NYC and Storyful.
  • 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. Previous internship placements include: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Stars & Stripes and San Francisco Chronicle.

Benefits

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  • Weekly salaries start at $525.

Eligibility

  • College sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students who are enrolled in school full-time as of Nov. 5, 2025, 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.

Application

Have these documents ready to attach before starting the application:

  • Résumé
  • Unofficial transcript. (For graduate students, attach your undergraduate transcript)
  • A 500-word essay: What was the most impactful thing you did as a journalist in the past year? (Note: This question may be interpreted very broadly. It could be a story, a topic, your leadership role on campus, class work, social media posts, etc.)
  • Samples of your work. 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. Note you must combine your work samples into one PDF or Word document.

Click here to apply


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