Summer Bartley Fellowship - Opinion Internship

The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section seeks beginning journalists—juniors, seniors or recent graduates (within one year of graduation) with reporting and writing experience at their school newspapers or elsewhere—for a 10-week paid summer internship in our New York City office. The in-person internship is an opportunity to get hands‑on experience working alongside some of the best opinion writers and editors in the world.

Our internships—formally the Bartley Fellowships—honor the Journal’s former Opinion editor, Robert L. Bartley. Opportunities will be awarded to young thinkers and writers who intend to pursue a career in journalism, whose views are broadly consistent with Bob’s, and the Opinion section’s, philosophy. It is essential that applicants be familiar with, and interested in, the ideas for which the Journal editorial page stands.

Several fellows will be selected each year through an application process that will be judged by senior editors. Bartley Fellows will be assigned to a department within the Opinion section
- Features (Op‑Eds and Columns);
Arts in Review; or Books. They will assist in researching, writing and editing content for the print and digital editions of the Journal, and will contribute as needed to social media and digital production tasks. While they’re assigned to a department for the summer, all interns are encouraged to pitch articles or projects to editors elsewhere in the Opinion section.

Internships are paid and generally take place over June, July and August, though start dates can be flexible in certain circumstances.

Applicants should have direct experience writing, and ideally editing, in a journalism context. A demonstrated ability to multitask and meet daily deadlines is critical for success. Applicants should be familiar with technology as it relates to journalism. Social media experience with a publication or brand would be a plus. Applicants who are able to demonstrate familiarity with our section’s content will be especially attractive (student applicants without campus-wide access to the WSJ can purchase discounted subscriptions at ).

In order to be considered, you must be a U.S. citizen, or a holder of a green card or visa that will allow you to work in the United States.

• A cover letter
• Your résumé
• Links to or cited full text of your three best clips
• Your response to one of the following prompts in no more than 600 words:
  Write an editorial either consistent with the WSJ’s philosophy in response to a current event in the news or defending your most controversial opinion. Write a sample letter to the editor responding to a recent WSJ editorial, Op‑Ed or column. Compare and contrast two opposing arguments from any reliable, professional source(s) on the same topic. Submit an original investigative Op‑Ed or original Opinion piece that is suitable in terms of style, tone of voice and topic for publication in the Journal.

Throughout his 30 years as The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Page Editor, Bob Bartley inspired principled and original thinking that changed and shaped the society in which we live. He also devoted attention to teaching and motivating talented young people, many of whom have gone on to careers in journalism at the Journal and elsewhere. The Bartley Fellowships are consistent with that legacy.

Bob Bartley achieved many honors during his long tenure here, including a Pulitzer Prize and, shortly before his death in December 2003, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In awarding that medal, President George W. Bush cited Bob as “one of the most influential journalists in American history.” The Robert L. Bartley…