There is just one week to go to apply to The Economist for an internship in their business affairs department supported by the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation. We invite promising journalists and would-be journalists to apply for an internship supported by the Marjorie Deane Foundation. Successful candidates will spend three to six months with The… Read More Vacancy reminder: Marjorie Deane internships at The Economist

The Economist has just advertised an internship in their business affairs department supported by the Marjorie Deane Foundation. We invite promising journalists and would-be journalists to apply for an internship supported by the Marjorie Deane Foundation. Successful candidates will spend three to six months with The Economist in London writing about business. Applicants are asked to send… Read More Vacancy alert: Marjorie Deane internships at The Economist

Congratulations to Antonia Cundy, who was a Marjorie Deane intern at the Financial Times in 2020, who has won two prizes for her journalism: the Marie Colvin Award at the British Journalism Awards 2022 and Newcomer of the Year at the Free Press Awards 2022. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, of which she is an alumna, writes:… Read More Alumni update: Antonia Cundy

If you wish to receive an email alert when an internship opportunity sponsored by the foundation is next advertised, please fill in this form here. Your details will be kept confidentially and will only be used to email you details of future internship advertisements that the Foundation and the media organisations with which it works may… Read More Sign up for the internship advertisement alert service

Calling all former interns and students of the foundation. The Economist is looking for a new economics writer: The Economist is looking to hire a writer on international economics, ideally based at first in London. Journalistic experience is not necessary. The ability to write clearly and entertainingly is crucial. So is a thorough understanding of economics—including… Read More Vacancy: The Economist wants a new economics writer

Congratulations to Dr Charles Read of Cambridge University, who was a Marjorie Deane intern at The Economist in 2013, for the publication of his new second book; this time it is about the relationship between British economic policy and financial crises over the past two centuries. This book exposes, for the first time in modern scholarship, the… Read More Alumni update: Charles Read’s second new book

Congratulations to Dr Charles Read of Cambridge University, who was a Marjorie Deane intern at The Economist in 2013, for the publication of his new book about the Irish famine and the 1847 financial crisis. The book describes the consequences of the British budget of February 1847, which contained unfunded tax cuts and a borrowing… Read More Alumni update: Charles Read’s new book

If you wish to receive an email alert when an internship opportunity sponsored by the foundation is next advertised, please fill in this form here. Your details will be kept confidentially and will only be used to email you details of future internship advertisements that the Foundation and the media organisations with which it works may… Read More Sign up for the internship advertisement alert service

Congratulations to Antonia Cundy, a former Marjorie Deane intern at the Financial Times in 2020, who has recently been hired as the newspaper’s special investigations reporter. You can follow her writing on this page. Read more about the internships that the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation funds here.

The foundation recently received the following update from Farooq Baloch, who took the MA course in financial journalism (MAFJ) this past academic year at City University of London. You can read more about the journalism courses that the foundation financially supports here. I am excited to share with you that I have just signed a… Read More Alumni update: Farooq Baloch