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Business Contributors Fellow (Summer 2024)

Insider Inc.

Business Insider is looking for a paid U.S.-based editorial fellow to join our Business Contributors and Freelance team in June 2024.

Our mission is to inform and inspire the digital generation and become the most influential and loved journalism brand in the world. At Insider, we aim to cover the people, companies, and ideas changing our world. At Insider, we strive to uphold three main core values: We are all one team, we are effective and we strive to get better every day.

The Business Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers. This role requires you to work for 40 hours a week and can be fully remote.

The Role & Team:

The Contributors and Freelance team works across the entire Business Insider newsroom to bring new voices and writers — contributors, thought leaders, experts, personal essayists, authors, and more — onto the site to help humanize our business, tech, and innovation coverage. We publish first-person stories (personal essays, as-told-to stories, op-eds, experientials) that highlight relatable experiences and emotions while showcasing broader business themes. We work with a large roster of freelance journalists to experiment in new subject areas and deepen the work of our internal desks.

The Business Contributors Fellow will help us to expand our contributor coverage by finding writers and sources, brainstorming, coordinating, interviewing, writing, or editing a steady pipeline of smart and engaging personal essays, as-told-to-style stories, and book excerpts aimed at our business audience. 

The fellow should have a knack for spotting and telling compelling human-interest stories related to tech, money, innovation, and business news. You should be comfortable interviewing and communicating with people and have an endless curiosity about people’s lives, careers, and stories. The role is an excellent opportunity to edit stories from outside contributors and to interview and then write as-told-to stories about sources. Previous professional writing and storytelling experience is a huge asset.

The role is based out of our New York City office. 

The Contributors and Freelance team works across the entire Business Insider newsroom to bring new voices and writers — contributors, thought leaders, experts, personal essayists, authors, and more — onto the site to help humanize our business, tech, and innovation coverage. We publish first-person stories (personal essays, as-told-to stories, op-eds, experientials) that highlight relatable experiences and emotions while showcasing broader business themes. We work with a large roster of freelance journalists to experiment in new subject areas and deepen the work of our internal desks.

The Business Contributors Fellow will help us to expand our contributor coverage by finding writers and sources, brainstorming, coordinating, interviewing, writing, or editing a steady pipeline of smart and engaging personal essays, as-told-to-style stories, and book excerpts aimed at our business audience. 

The fellow should have a knack for spotting and telling compelling human-interest stories related to tech, money, innovation, and business news. You should be comfortable interviewing and communicating with people and have an endless curiosity about people’s lives, careers, and stories. The role is an excellent opportunity to edit stories from outside contributors and to interview and then write as-told-to stories about sources. Previous professional writing and storytelling experience is a huge asset.

The Contributors and Freelance team works across the entire Business Insider newsroom to bring new voices and writers — contributors, thought leaders, experts, personal essayists, authors, and more — onto the site to help humanize our business, tech, and innovation coverage. We publish first-person stories (personal essays, as-told-to stories, op-eds, experientials) that highlight relatable experiences and emotions while showcasing broader business themes. We work with a large roster of freelance journalists to experiment in new subject areas and deepen the work of our internal desks.

The Business Contributors Fellow will help us to expand our contributor coverage by finding writers and sources, brainstorming, coordinating, interviewing, writing, or editing a steady pipeline of smart and engaging personal essays, as-told-to-style stories, and book excerpts aimed at our business audience. 

The fellow should have a knack for spotting and telling compelling human-interest stories related to tech, money, innovation, and business news. You should be comfortable interviewing and communicating with people and have an endless curiosity about people’s lives, careers, and stories. The role is an excellent opportunity to edit stories from outside contributors and to interview and then write as-told-to stories about sources. Previous professional writing and storytelling experience is a huge asset.

The role is based out of our New York City office. Insider is a flexible workplace when it comes to remote work, but an important part of the fellowship is being a part of the newsroom in person for learning opportunities. Fellows are asked to come into our offices at least two days a week.

This role reports directly to the deputy freelance editor and sits on the Business Contributors team. This role will be hybrid out of our New York office. Applications are due by April 15.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Sourcing, interviewing, and reporting as-told-to stories 
  • Pitching new story and source ideas daily
  • Editing stories written by contributors 
  • Contributing to daily and weekly brainstorms
  • Building stories in a CMS
  • Collaborating on cross-team projects

The ideal candidate has:

  • A passion for human-interest stories related to tech, money, innovation, and business news — should be a voracious consumer of social media, podcasts, and newsletters.
  • Experience reporting and writing (school publications are great)
  • A deep curiosity about people’s lives and voracious reading habits
  • An ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
  • Proofreading, copyediting, and fact-checking skills
  • An ability to problem solve independently and a willingness to learn and incorporate feedback
  • A good sense of what Business Insider readers will find interesting
  • The initiative and drive to pitch writers, story ideas, and books
  • Experience writing headlines and social copy
  • Experience working and inputting stories into a CMS
  • A good eye for photo/visual information
  • An ability to file multiple stories per week
  • Strong time-management skills
  • An excitement for reaching a smart, diverse, ambitious, and motivated audience of people who are actively trying to grow both professionally and personally.

Additionally, all of our editorial fellows should have:

  • A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
  • Familiarity with digital and social media
  • The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
  • Proofreading and copyediting skills
  • A love of Insider and our mission to serve readers with the information and inspiration they need in a way that’s accurate, fair, fast, and fun 

Salary & Benefits:

  • Fellows are paid $20 per hour (overtime when needed and approved)
  • PTO and paid holidays
  • Eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits on 91st day of employment

Please apply with a resume and cover letter and specify why you're interested in working on this team. If you’d like some tips, check out our best practices guide.

Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and, when making employment decisions, does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality or national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.

Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to the Insider community.

About Business Insider: 

Business Insider is a global journalism company that covers the world of business, tech, innovation, and beyond. With headquarters in New York and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Belfast, and Singapore, we reach an audience of more than 375 million with storytelling that’s fascinating, unexpected, and always helpful.

As a company, we strive to be inspiring and effective, we value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Our company motto is “get better every day,” which means we value all people. Diversity reflects the different life experiences, identities, and perspectives that make each of us unique. For more information on our DEI mission click here.

Business Insider supports a distributed workforce that allows for varied work locations. Many roles are eligible for 100% remote or hybrid remote/office work unless otherwise noted.

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