Adam Creighton, a foundation-sponsored intern at The Economist in 2009, recently picked up a prestigious Citi Journalism Award for Excellence. The awards, now in their 31st year, recognise the best business journalism in Australia and New Zealand. Creighton, who works as Economics Correspondent for The Australian, was chosen as the winner in The Economy category,… Read More Journalism award for former intern

With the support of the foundation, Dan Brown completed a Master’s degree in development economics at Oxford University in 2012. He is now at Harvard. I applied for the foundation studentship frantically in the summer of 2011. I held a place on the MSc Economics for Development at Oxford starting just a few months ahead… Read More Alumni update: Dan Brown

Tom Metcalf, a former banking analyst and auditor, enrolled in the Master’s in Financial Journalism course at City University with support from the foundation. He is now a reporter at Bloomberg. “The Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation helped me take my first steps into the world of journalism, something I had hankered for after several… Read More Alumni update: Tom Metcalf

I had always limited my passion for journalism to writing for and editing magazines, newspapers and websites at school and university. Knowing how fiercely competitive the industry is, and how scarce the paid positions, I had never dared pursue an actual job. It was only during a seemingly endless wait for a visa in Argentina… Read More Alex Walker: An intern looks back

It was a stroke of luck that I chanced upon a notification for the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation’s studentship in the summer of 2011. I was hoping to study economics at the London School of Economics, and thanks to the foundation’s generosity I found myself in a position to do so. The foundation was… Read More Alumni update: Vaishnavi Surendra

A new group of interns sponsored by the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation will soon join The Economist for three months. One of them, Luisa Porritt, explains the route that took her to the internship. “I gained my first journalism experience as a political news reporter for PoliticsHome during the UK election, subsequently making the transition to financial… Read More Introducing 2012 interns: Luisa Porritt

Without a doubt, there is no way I could have attended City University London to study financial journalism had it not been for the studentship that I received from the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation. The support that the foundation gave me was invaluable because it allowed me to pursue my Master’s degree while also… Read More Alumni update: Sarah Marquer