News South Asia

Bloomberg: Print News Internship

Bloomberg News summer interns will gain hands-on experience reporting and writing for the financial news service. Working with Bloomberg′s 1,800 print journalists in 153 news bureaus around the world, interns will contribute to coverage of financial markets, companies, economies and government. Successful applicants will produce breaking news stories under real-time deadline pressure. This is a paid 10-week internship program, beginning on April 1st, 2014. Along with a resume and cover letter, please submit three published samples of your work to support your application. Applications close February 28th, and interviews will take place in March.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor′s degree or equivalent experience is required.
• Interest in financial markets, companies and economies.
• Prior experience working in a real-time news environment is desirable.
• Ability to work within a team under deadline pressure.
• Second language is desirable.
• Fluent written and spoken English is essential.
• Applicants must be available to work for 10 weeks beginning on April 1st, 2014.
• Applicants will be required to work in Johannesburg for the full 10 weeks of the internships.

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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.