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Bloomberg: 2014 Summer Print News Internship

Bloomberg News interns will gain hands-on experience reporting for the print department of one of the world′s leading financial news services. During the program, interns will produce breaking news stories under deadline for our coverage of markets, companies, economies, and governments. Responsibilities will include pitching and writing enterprise stories, conducting exclusive interviews, and collaborating with our other media platforms.

All applicants must submit three samples of work, along with a resume and a cover letter. The interns selected for this role will be based out of Mumbai. The cover letter should include a short section on why the applicant wants to pursue a career in journalism.

Qualifications:

- Knowledge of financial markets, companies and economies
- Prior experience in journalism, preferably in a real-time news environment is an asset
- Ability to work within a team under deadline pressure
- Candidates with fluency in another language will have an advantage
- Ability to write and communicate concisely
- Intention to pursue a full-time career in financial journalism

The Company Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company′s strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg′s enterprise solutions build on the company′s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.