Business Writing

This week was my first meeting with Lynn Holley who is my mentor in the College of Media this year. I decided to talk to her on occasion because as a graduating senior, I am in desperate need of finding a job.

I thought the hardest part would be starting to look for a job. I am still a little unsure of what kind of journalism or writing career I want to pursue, and it seems like an impossible task to get started on my own. However, the conversation that Ms. Holley and I had went a different direction than I had imagined. She encouraged me to look into the Dow Jones internship opportunities.

I am not going to lie, I have not been planning on taking the Dow Jones test. An internship in copyediting does not appeal to me, and I took the test last year and did horrible. But I forgot about the opportunities Dow Jones has in business writing, which is why Ms. Holley and I started talking about the subject anyway.

Business journalism seems like it is the fastest growing area of journalism right now; it is where the jobs are at. I showed Ms. Holley my cover letter for Sheila Solomon, the recruiter who is coming from the Chicago Tribune, and Ms. Holley said to focus on the writing I am doing for the College of Business. She said Ms. Solomon would be most interested in seeing those writing samples because that is now an important area of journalism.

Click here to check out one of the articles I wrote for the College of Business.

Despite the fact that I do not really want another internship after I graduate, I think I might just have to bite the bullet. Ms. Holley said that Dow Jones loved the intern they had in business writing last summer and offered him a job. So as much as I dread the days in class where I have to crunch numbers and practice for the Dow Jones test, I think keeping my options open my actually lead to a career in business writing.

Check out the Dow Jones News Fund website if you want to learn more about the internships opportunities.