Trending News Fellow Summer 2025
Trending News Fellow Summer 2025
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Job Description
Business Insider is hiring a reporting fellow to cover tech and trending business news. The fellow would join a team covering the most compelling and impactful business stories of the day across a variety of industries including tech retail and transportation.
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 fellow would write about major companies including Amazon Meta Tesla Apple and the CEOs running them. The ideal candidate closely follows the latest drama in the business world and is adept at finding creative ways into themes that are driving the conversation. Fellows may also write about business personalities consumer trends real estate AI and other innovations. They will spend their time doing meaningful work: researching writing pitching and interviewing and regular fastturnaround original reporting. Reporters may also pitch travel assignments though travel is not required as a condition of employment.
This role reports to our deputy editor and sits on the trending news desk.
Key Responsibilities:
- Taking assignments from editors
- Pitching story ideas including original reporting
- Sourcing up in assigned companies
- Researching and conducting interviews
- Covering breaking news and smart aggregation
- Updating existing coverage with new developments
The ideal candidate has:
- An interest in covering the most compelling news from the worlds biggest companies and the rivalries and controversies that can result
- A keen eye for impactful and potentially marketmoving corporate news and how employees are reacting
- A broad knowledge base spanning multiple industries and company types
- A fundamental understanding of how corporations conduct business and grow
- A nose for identifying any developments that seem unusual and outoftheordinary
- A willingness to conduct coldreachouts and quick interviews to advance news
- Speed close attention to detail and accuracy and clean copy
- Experience with original reporting and writing (school publications are great!
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
- Proofreading and copyediting skills
- 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
- 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 letterand 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.
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