U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping citizens, consumers, business leaders, and policy officials make important decisions in their lives. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism, and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for nearly 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel Cars, News, and 360 Reviews. At the end of this internship, the student will gain valuable hands-on experience with a leading company in financial media.
We reach more than 40 million people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our “Best” series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services, and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. And our U.S. News Live flagship conferences highlight important national conversations including Healthcare of Tomorrow and Healthiest Communities.
Our Investing Summer Intern will be a key part of our team, writing articles to help average investors make important financial decisions every day.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in reporting and/or editing, whether at a previous internship or a college publication.
• Demonstrated interest in and knowledge of finance, investing, and economics. This can be through education, actual reporting/editing, or personal experience with investing.
• Journalism, English, Economics, Business, and Finance are preferred majors, but experience in the first two points on this list is more important.
Job Responsibilities
• Writing articles and slideshows. The intern will get their name on articles we publish that help investors make better decisions.
• Training in financial writing for a broad audience. The intern will get extensive training on financial markets and economics, as well as how to convey financial concepts to a broad audience.
• Depending on the intern’s areas of interest, there may be opportunities to work in different forms of media – producing graphics, making videos, and web production – to support the core product of written articles.
• After several weeks of being assigned articles to write, the intern will cap their summer with an original investing advice article that they conceive of and develop with the help of the editors on the team. The intern will learn about the whole process of getting an article published, from idea to SEO research to planning interviews to drafting and editing