Summer 2024 Bartley Fellowship - Book Review internship

The Wall Street Journal's Book Review section seeks beginning journalists—juniors, seniors or recent graduates with reporting and writing backgrounds at their school newspapers or elsewhere—for 10-week paid summer internships in our New York City office. The in-person internships are an opportunity to get hands-on experience working alongside some of the best opinion writers and editors in the world.

Our internships—formally, the Bartley Fellowships—honor our section's former editor, Robert L. (Bob) Bartley. Opportunities will be awarded to young thinkers and writers who intend to pursue a career in journalism or cultural criticism.

The Books interns are among several fellows selected each year through an application process that is overseen by senior editors. Bartley Fellows will be assigned to a department within the Opinion section—Arts in Review; Book Reviews; or Features (op-eds and columns). The fellow(s) selected to work with the Books teams will assist in commissioning reviews, researching, fact-checking and editing content for the print and digital editions of the Journal, contribute to social media and digital production, and will be encouraged to submit their own ideas for exhibitions or other cultural events to review. They may also submit ideas for articles or projects to editors in any part of the Opinion section.

Internships are paid, and generally take place during June, July and August, though start dates can be flexible.

If you are interested in applying for the Opinion, Books, Arts and Social Media Bartley Fellowships, please submit separate applications for each position.

Guidelines and Application Deadline

Though a reporting and/or writing background is a plus, the fellowship is primarily an editing internship. Therefore applicants should have experience editing arts or arts-related copy for their college newspaper, literary magazine or a comparable publication. Students from any discipline may apply, but preference will be granted to those concentrating in literature, history, a foreign language, classics, pre-law, music, theater, art history, studio art, architecture, philosophy, political science or archaeology—via coursework (though not necessarily a major) or sustained leisure-time activity.

An appreciation for both the Western and non-Western canons is desirable, as is an understanding of current issues in the arts. A demonstrated ability to multitask and meet daily deadlines is critical for success, as is attention to detail and a focus on accuracy. Applicants should be familiar with technology as it relates to journalism. Social media experience with a publication or brand would be a plus.

Applicants who are able to demonstrate familiarity with our section’s content will be especially attractive (student applicants without campus-wide access to the WSJ can purchase discounted subscriptions at https://www.wsj.com/studentoffer ).

If you’d like to be considered, please submit the following in one single, complete PDF file:

Cover letter

Resume

Links to or cited full text of your three best clips

Your response to the following prompt in no more than 800 words:

Make a case for any book of your choosing on history, fiction or nonfiction. (Examples: https://www.wsj.com/news/types/bookshelf )

All materials must be received by November 27, 2023. Only complete applications that include a cover letter, resume and prompt responses will be considered. Please do not include any additional materials, such as transcripts, recommendation letters, etc. In order to be considered, you must be a U.S. citizen, or a holder of a green card or visa that will allow you to work in the United States. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we endeavor to make selections by the end of January. Only finalists will be contacted.