Dow Jones News Fund, Inc. Princeton, NJ

PRINCETON, N.J. (Oct. 29, 2012) – The Dow Jones News Fund has extended the deadline to apply for summer 2013 internships in digital, news and sports editing and business reporting to Nov. 8 because of Hurricane Sandy. The extension includes completing the reporting and editing exams.

Applications are online on the Fund’s website at https://www.newsfund.org.
For more details, visit the College Internships page.

Participating news organizations must pay interns at least $350 per week for a minimum of 10 weeks. The average salary is $450 per week.

Interns will be trained at Dow Jones headquarters in New York and several college campuses — the University of Missouri, Western Kentucky University, Temple University, Penn State University, the University of Nebraska and the University of Texas — before reporting to work. The Fund covers travel costs to and from training then to newsrooms. Students who return to school after a successful internship will receive $1,000 college scholarships. 

Questions can directed to the Fund at 609-520-5929 or email djnf@dowjones.com. 

     The Dow Jones News Fund is a nonprofit organization supported by the Dow Jones Foundation, Dow Jones and Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and other media companies. Its mission is to encourage high school and college students to pursue journalism careers by sponsoring workshops and providing internships.