Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones extends internship program

The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund has broadened the business reporting internship program to include college seniors in summer 2008.

The business reporting program originated in 1995 recruiting minority college sophomores and juniors. Continuing its commitment to diversity, the program will accept applications from seniors.

The reprised online internship program, supported by a continuing commitment from Yahoo! News at Western Kentucky University, enters its second year.

News organizations can enroll now in the 2008 summer internship programs to bring talented college sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students to their newsrooms. More than 600 students apply for DJNF internships each year.

The Fund expects to select more than 100 interns as online editors and general news and sports copy editors. At least 12 internships will be offered to business reporters at news organizations.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.