Jobs

Our students get great jobs. Where do our graduates go to work right out of school? Of the students who completed their studies most recently, four became reporters at The Wall Street Journal; two went to Forbes.com; three to TheStreet.com; and one to Reuters, Bloomberg News, CNBC, MarketWatch, Investors Business Daily, and Russia Today (Moscow). Of these students, more than half had never published an article before studying with us in the BER program.

How do BER students do on the job? Looking at just one prominent publication, seven BER alumni amassed a total of 17 bylined articles in The Wall Street Journal alone during the week of June 23 to June 28, 2007.

Studying business journalism at NYU provides many career opportunities. You can't beat the location. New York is the capital of business journalism, and we expose students to top professionals in the city through our weekly speakers program and through great internships. Our students find that there are many employment opportunities because of the demand for people who can write with understanding about business and economics. Starting salaries for BER alumni are typically in the low $40's to the mid-$70's, compared to the average of $28,000 for journalism graduates nationwide going into newspaper jobs (Cox Center survey, Grady College, 2005).

The following is a list of the first jobs that students have received upon leaving the program in Business and Economic Reporting:

Internships

Internships are a key part of the BER program, providing professional work experience, numerous bylines, and often job offers. BER students work a full-time, ten-week internship during the summer between their second and third semesters. Many students also work as interns during their regular academic semesters. BER employs its own internship director/career counselor, Professor Pamela Kruger, who assists students with resumes, job advice, and finding internships with leading business news organizations. Students can work in print, broadcast, or online, and they publish or produce numerous pieces during their internships. The following news organizations have hosted interns from the program: