Forbes

Forbes

Forbes Fellowship

Jersey City, NJ · Staff+ · Internship

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About the role

  • The Fellowship will begin with a week-long business journalism bootcamp, a series of classes taught by top editors.
  • We are looking for recent college graduates who are interested in business journalism and have some experience in reporting, including internships and work on college newspapers.
  • People making a career switch to journalism will also be considered, depending on their previous experience, training and education.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the skills related to pitching, reporting and writing breaking news, trend pieces, second day takes, and feature length business stories.
  • Conduct research related to list rankings (contact sources, gather documents and data, write short profiles).
  • Collaborate with Forbes staffers on special projects.
  • Ability to understand and draw conclusions from financial documents.

Requirements

  • The ideal candidate:

Nice to have

  • Recent college graduates from either undergraduate or graduate programs.
  • Candidates must have graduated within the past 24 months.
  • Journalism major, significant roles at a collegiate publication, OR previous journalism internship is required.
  • Prior experience in fact-checking, reporting, writing, and editing.
  • Solid news judgment with an understanding of journalistic standards and editorial ethics.
  • Experience with publishing platforms, current digital and social media technologies and SEO best practices.
  • Strong interest in business/entrepreneurship and understanding of basic financial terms/figures.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.

Skills

  • Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century.

Compensation

  • Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.

Company info

  • Due to business operations and compliance requirements, we are unable to consider applicants based outside these states at this time.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.

This listing is sourced directly from Forbes's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.