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Summer 2026 Internship – MarketWatch Reporting Intern

Application Deadline: November 14, 2025

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; early submissions are strongly encouraged.

Internship Dates: June 8, 2026 – August 14, 2026

(You must be available to work during this period)

About Our Organization

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled news and information for more than 130 years and today boasts one of the world's largest global news-gathering operations. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Role:

MarketWatch is seeking a reporting intern to join MarketWatch’s New York City newsroom in summer 2026. This internship offers the opportunity to help cover the most important economic, investing and market-moving news each day.

Interns will work closely with editors and reporters throughout the newsroom, providing coverage across the markets, economics and personal finance teams. You’ll report to Assistant Managing Editor, Nicole Pesce, based in New York.

This role is hybrid, with work based in our Midtown Manhattan office.

You Will:

Monitor the most important news moments of the day and help spot the money and investing angles that everyone else is missing.

Report and write timely and impactful articles of varying lengths on economic and financial news topics.

Cover breaking developments such as market reactions to economic data, policy changes or corporate news, and unpack these events for our audience.

Contribute research and reporting for longer enterprise journalism stories off the news.

You Have:

Completed at least two years of undergraduate study. (Journalism, communications, economics or related fields preferred.)

Interest in markets, business and the economy

Stellar writing, critical thinking and collaboration skills

Ability to report and write quickly and cleanly under deadline pressure

Insatiable curiosity and a drive to expand the news of the moment into enterprise stories that resonate with real people

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area: Dow Jones - Wealth & Investing

Job Category: Administration, Facilities & Secretarial

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $25.00 - $25.00

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company.As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

Req ID: 49297