We are in search of a gifted, enterprising and adaptable fellow for the increasing Digital division of The Economist. This fellow will spend one 12 months working in our New York bureau, and can begin as quickly as potential.
The fellowship will contain:
• engaged on the newsdesk and Espresso information app, as a part of a worldwide workforce
• monitoring the workflow of tales, liaising with totally different departments and publishing articles
• curating the house web page and app
• pitching and writing articles, together with Explainers and Daily Charts
• occasional weekend shifts
The fellow will work within the Digital workforce, however will have the ability to supply contributions to different departments, from audio to movies to the weekly version.
The goal of the fellowship is to seek out and practice future Economist journalists. Previous journalistic expertise is just not essential, however candidates ought to have glorious writing and analytical abilities. They must be curious concerning the world and have the ability to write about it concisely, wittily and with rigour. Fellows ought to shortly develop into aware of The Economist’s Style Guide.
They will even must be meticulously organised, have a eager eye for element and really feel snug studying to work with totally different publishing programs and with totally different groups.
Please ship a canopy letter, CV and an authentic unpublished Explainer article of round 400 phrases appropriate for publication to [email protected] The deadline is August twenty eighth.
The article you ship is a very powerful a part of the applying. We will learn it blind (ie, with out taking a look at your identify or the place you might be from). Only if what you write matches what we’re in search of will we have a look at your CV.
To qualify for consideration, all candidates will need to have pre-existing US work authorisation.
The Economist Group is the main supply of research on worldwide enterprise and world affairs. We ship our data by way of a variety of codecs, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and digital companies. What ties us collectively is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our perception and our advocacy of financial and political freedom all over the world.
The Economist Group values variety. We are dedicated to equal alternatives and creating an inclusive setting for all our staff. We welcome candidates no matter ethnic origin, nationwide origin, gender, race, color, spiritual beliefs, incapacity, sexual orientation or age.