Corporate Reporting Internship, Media & Entertainment, Los Angeles (Summer 2025)

Job Description:

 Corporate Reporting Internship, Media & Entertainment, Los Angeles (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 breaking entertainment-industry news, celebrity and Hollywood-related legal proceedings and, occasionally, earnings. You will be expected to generate your own story ideas for ambitious, colorful features about the television, film and music industry and follow those stories through to completion with supervision and guidance from an editor. Experience with and interest in data analysis and data-driven projects is encouraged.

We are looking for an intern eager to learn about the businesses of entertainment and talent. The ideal candidate will bring fresh perspectives to our coverage of streaming’s continued disruption of legacy media and how social media is impacting young audiences’ taste and habits.

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.

• Your résumé.

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

The deadline to apply is Sunday, Oct. 20, 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 [email protected]. First, please make sure your question isn’t already answered here. 

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Administration, Facilities & Secretarial

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: 28.57 - 28.57

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..