Business journalism conference available to college students

Undergraduate and master’s college students from across the country are eligible to attend a two-day conference on business journalism in New York in October.

The conference, organized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, guarantees students picked to attend at least two interviews with business journalism organizations such as Bloomberg News, Reuters, Dow Jones, the Associated Press, Business Insider and American City Business Journals.

The event will be held Oct. 21 to Oct. 23 and will include sessions on tips from business journalism internship coordinators and advice from new business journalists on getting that first job in the field. Fortune senior editor at large Allan Sloan and Forbes managing editor Carl Lavin will speak at the conference.

The students will also attend sessions on business journalism for broadcast and hear tips on finding business stories from SEC filings and small companies.

More than 40 students from 11 schools — such as UNC-Chapel Hill, CUNY, Baruch College, Northwestern University, Ohio University, Washington & Lee University, North Carolina A&T, University of South Carolina, and Humboldt State University in California — attended last year.  Approximately 40 spots will be available this year as well.

Grants from Progress Energy, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and Bloomberg LP will pay for the students’ lodging and food while they are in New York.

To see the schedule, and to apply, go here.