Dow Jones Newswires is a leading, global real-time business and financial news provider, serving the diverse needs of more than 430,000 financial professionals, corporate officers, communications executives and individual investors with a va¬riety of news services and Web sites. Approximately 900 Newswires journalists cover all asset classes and publish in 11 languages, reporting from nearly 90 bureaus around the world.
SUMMER 2010 INTERNSHIP, TORONTO
The Dow Jones Newswires intern in Toronto will work closely with reporters and editors to deliver prompt, accurate reporting of business and financial news. During the 12-week program, the intern will write market commentary and forward-looking features, analyze market data and generally hone his/her journalistic skills by working with the various news teams to cover the financial markets.
Applicants must have the ability to work in a fast-moving, sometimes stressful environment with extremely tight deadlines. Strong communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills and an excellent command of written and spoken English are a must. Working knowledge of financial markets is helpful but not required. Applicants must legally be able to work in Canada. The pay is $700 a week.
The selection process is highly competitive and most of those chosen have had prior internships with other newspapers as well as extensive experience on a campus newspaper. Heavy emphasis is placed on journalism experience and clips. Only the applicants selected for final consideration will be interviewed.
To apply, go to www.dowjones.com/careers, click “search for jobs” and find the internships using job ID#090156 or search with the keyword “intern.”
The application deadline is January 21, 2010.
Interviews will be held at Ryerson during the week of January 25-29. An interview list will be posted a few days earlier.
