The Media Law & First Amendment intern will join Dow Jones’s legal department in its New York City offices for ten weeks in the summer of 2020. They will be working primarily with Dow Jones’s litigation and press attorneys, the intern will focus on matters affecting publication, access to information, newsgathering, and domestic and international free speech laws.

Responsibilities:

• Research
• Drafting memoranda
• Helping to resolve the day-to-day issues that arise in publishing The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s, and other publications
• The intern may also be exposed to matters involving business transactions, labor and employment law, patents, and trademarks

• Candidates should be either first or second-year law students and have a demonstrated interest and commitment to media law
• Intellectually curious, willing to express thoughts freely
• Superb interpersonal, presentation, and writing skills
• Able to prioritize, manage, and execute tasks, while adhering to critical project timelines in a very fast-paced environment

Interested students should submit a cover letter, resume, and law school transcript with their application.

Starting out as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has become a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including our flagship Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News and other great products. World-class journalism lies at the core of our growing news-derived data capabilities, driven by innovation in AI and machine learning. We understand that the better the provenance of information, the greater the opportunity.