Newspaper Fund Adds Online Editing to 2007 Internship Program
PDF APPLICATIONS at http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/forms/2007editingapp.pdf and http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/forms/2007businessapp.pdf .
Students can also REQUEST APPLICATION forms by sending an email to the Fund at newsfund@wsj.dowjones.com with “application� in the subject line or by calling 609-452-2820.
The application postmark deadline for all programs is Nov. 1.
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund is inviting college students to apply for its 2007 online editing internship program, which rejoins the sports copy editing and general news copy editing roster of programs. For the 13 th year, the Fund will seek applicants for its business reporting internship program.
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 minority college sophomores and juniors who will work as business reporters at news organizations.
Applicants for the editing programs must submit the form, a résumé, a typed list of courses and grades and an essay describing why a media recruiter would find the applicant a perfect copy editor.
Online, news, and sports editing applicants must take the Controlled Editing Exam from college professors called monitors. They are listed on the web site at http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/cs_monitorlist.asp . Applicants must take the test before Nov. 1. A student who does not have a designated campus monitor must ask a professor to administer the test and arrange by Oct. 24 th , to have an exam sent to that professor.
Business reporting interns submit the form, a résumé, a typed list of courses and grades, three to five recent clips and an essay describing why they want to write about business for the summer. A reporting test, devised by the Fund, is sent to professors asked to serve as proctors by the applicants.
September 2006