Business Contributors Fellow Summer 2025
Business Contributors Fellow Summer 2025
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Job Description
Business Insider is hiring an editorial fellow to join our Business Contributors team to tell narrative stories about the news.
Business Insider is for people who are driven optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thoughtprovoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible smart sometimes unexpected and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insiders three core values: we are all one team we are effective and we strive to get better every day.
The Role & Team:
The Business Contributors team helps humanize our business tech and innovation coverage by working across the entire Business Insider newsroom to bring new voices contributors thought leaders experts personal essayists authors and more to the site. We publish firstperson stories (many told astoldto style) from all rungs of beacon companies that highlight relatable experiences and emotions while showcasing broader business themes.
The Business Contributors Fellow will help us to expand our contributor coverage by finding authoritative sources brainstorming compelling angles interviewing people and writing factchecking and editing a steady pipeline of lively smart conversational firstperson stories aimed at our business audience.
The fellow should have a knack for spotting and telling compelling humaninterest stories related to tech money innovation and business news. You should be comfortable interviewing and communicating with people and have an endless curiosity about peoples lives careers and stories. The role is an excellent opportunity to interview and write astoldto stories and to edit the work of other writers. Previous professional writing and storytelling experience is a huge asset.
This role reports directly to Manseen Logan. Fellows are expected to come into the NYC or San Francisco offices twice per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Pitching new story and source ideas daily
- Sourcing interviewing and reporting astoldto stories
- Factchecking and editing drafts
- Contributing to daily and weekly brainstorms
- Building stories in a CMS
- Collaborating on crossteam projects
The ideal candidate has:
- A passion for humaninterest stories related to tech money innovation and business news should be an enthusiastic consumer of news sites social media podcasts and newsletters.
- A deep curiosity about peoples lives and voracious reading habits
- An ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fastpaced team
- Proofreading copyediting and factchecking skills
- Experience reporting and writing (school publications are great)
- An ability to problem solve independently and a willingness to learn and incorporate feedback
- A good sense of what Business Insider readers will find interesting
- The initiative and drive to pitch writers story ideas and books for coverage
- Experience writing headlines and social copy
- Experience working and inputting stories into a CMS
- A good eye for photo/visual information
- An ability to file multiple stories per week
- Strong timemanagement skills
- An excitement for reaching a smart diverse ambitious and motivated audience of people who are actively trying to grow both professionally and personally.
Additionally all of our editorial fellows should have:
- A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
- Familiarity with digital and social media
- The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fastpaced team
- A love of Business Insider and our mission to serve readers with the information and inspiration they need in a way thats accurate fair fast and fun
Salary & Benefits:
- Fellows are paid $20 per hour (overtime when needed and approved)
- PTO and paid holidays
- Eligible for medical dental and vision benefits on 91st day of employment
Please apply with a resume and cover letter and specify why youre interested in working on this team. If youd like some tips check out our best practices guide.
Business Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and when making employment decisions does not discriminate based on race ethnicity gender gender identity or expression sex sexual orientation age nationality or national origin religion disability familial status and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.
Are you passionate about this opportunity but worried that you dont have 100 of the experience were looking for We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Business Insider.
Business Insider is a global journalism company that covers the world of business tech innovation and beyond. With headquarters in New York and offices in San Francisco London Belfast and Singapore we reach an audience of more than 375 million with storytelling thats fascinating unexpected and always helpful.
As a company we strive to be inspiring and effective we value Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging. Our company motto is get better every day which means we value all people. Diversity reflects the different life experiences identities and perspectives that make each of us unique. For more information on our DEI mission click here.
Employment Type
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