Dow Jones News Fund Data Journalism Summer Internship
If you have a curious spirit, love numbers and have an appetite for investigative journalism, data journalism is for you. Spend next summer asking tough questions, digging into government records, building interactive charts and visualizations that reveal untold stories.
The Dow Jones News Fund seeks curious college juniors, seniors and graduate students for paid, summer internships with media organizations across the country, provides week-long, hands-on pre-internship training and awards $1,500 scholarships.
Interns are paid a minimum of $450/week for 10-12 weeks. Click here to see a list of previous internship placements.
Interns attend a week of training led by journalists from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) refining skills like making Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, learning computer-assisted reporting and analyzing and cleaning data in order to tell rich, often hidden, stories before starting internships where they apply these skills to issues like education, government, criminal justice and the economy.
ABOUT YOU
We are looking for students with investigative chops who are not scared of filing a public records request or opening a spreadsheet with 100,000 records. Previous experience or familiarity with Python, MySQL,R, or Ruby a plus, but not required.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Students apply online here. Each applicant must submit an unofficial transcript and personal essay. Within a day or two, the News Fund will send applicants a link to a timed, online test that must be taken within 3 days. The test itself takes about an hour.