Fellowship

About the Role

The Forbes Editorial Fellowship is a twelve-month immersive training program for early-career business journalists. Fellows will rotate through the newsroom to learn targeted skills specific to a Forbes career. This is a full-time, temporary position operating on a hybrid schedule with a minimum of one in-person collaboration day per week at the Jersey City, NJ headquarters. The role is paid hourly, with a standard weekly schedule of 40 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop skills in pitching, reporting, and writing breaking news, trend pieces, second-day takes, and feature-length business stories.
• Work on wealth valuations and financial investigations focused on the world's wealthiest people.
• Collaborate with veteran reporters to cultivate sources and find scoops.
• Conduct research for list rankings, including contacting sources, gathering documents and data, and writing short profiles.
• Fact-check the Daily Cover Story on Forbes.com and magazine stories.
• Partner with Forbes staffers on special projects.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Prior experience in fact-checking, reporting, writing, and editing.
• Solid news judgment with an understanding of journalistic standards and editorial ethics.
• Experience with publishing platforms, current digital and social media technologies, and SEO best practices.
• Strong interest in business/entrepreneurship and understanding of basic financial terms/figures.
• Ability to understand and draw conclusions from financial documents.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines.

Qualifications

• Recent college graduates from either undergraduate or graduate programs, who have graduated within the past 24 months.
• A Journalism major, significant roles at a collegiate publication, OR a previous journalism internship is required.
• Candidates who are making a career switch to journalism may be considered, depending on their previous experience, training, and education.
• The Fellowship will begin with a week-long business journalism bootcamp.
• Fellows will rotate through the newsroom in a series of four, 3-month assignments.

Application Requirements

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Three published clips