Fortune Newsroom Fellowships (Fall 2025)

As a Fortune fellow, you will:

• Be assigned to a specific team and focus, including:
  • Audience Development and Social Media
  • Business and Trending News (Monday to Friday or Wednesday to Sunday)
  • Crypto News
  • Social Video
• Report and write your own stories, likely a mix of quick hits and in-depth pieces, and/or curate, produce, and package Fortune coverage.
• Both pitch stories and take assignments; participate in brainstorming sessions.
• Craft explainers, profiles, trend pieces, evergreen articles, social videos, and/or newsletter editions to help readers understand key topics, companies, prominent players, and trends.
• Contribute to our flagship lists like the Fortune 500 and to our industry-leading newsletters.
• Work both independently and collaboratively.
• Ensure our coverage includes a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
• Uphold Fortune’s standards of journalistic rigor, accuracy, and fairness.
• Learn the inner workings of our newsroom and company.

Ideal candidates:

• Thrive on economics and business news and/or demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, willingness, and ability to learn it.

• Value and balance speed and stamina with originality, accuracy, and completeness.

• Consume a lot of news from a breadth of sources and have a pulse on the most important stories and on what would resonate with the Fortune audience.

• For writing-based desks: Write clean, accurate, and insightful copy on deadline.

• Are ambitious, detail-oriented, deadline-driven, able to manage time and juggle multiple assignments, quick to learn, curious, and always have fresh ideas.

• Have a growth mindset; can take and internalize direction to grow in the role.

• Can communicate and work effectively and professionally in the office.

To apply, please submit the following three items:

1. Your resume

2. Three work samples that represent your best work, either as links or pdfs. In lieu of a standard cover letter, a letter or memo responding to the following four questions:
   1. Why are you interested in joining Fortune as a 
      fellow
      , and which desks/verticals (audience development and social media, business and trending news, newsletter curation and production or success) are you most interested in and why? (Do you want to report and write? Curate and repackage? Promote content?)

   2. In a nutshell, what do you feel you would bring to the table as a Fortune 
      fellow
      , and how do you see this opportunity enabling you to learn and grow?

   3. What’s one piece of Fortune content — a story, a video, a podcast episode, a ranked list, a newsletter edition, a social post— that you find particularly compelling, and why?
   4. What’s one story you would pitch, and for which section or vertical?
3. Are you available to start in October or January? Please let us know your availability.

Please submit this information as a PDF, using your name in the file name.

These roles will be based in NYC with 5 days/week in the office. 

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