Program features and benefits
The Fellowship is a two-year program focusing on journalism in a changing digital world. The Fellowship program consists of two 12-month rotations at our top metro papers. Fellows will receive training, mentoring and real-world experience alongside top journalists who are using cutting-edge tools to tell stories through data, video, and more. Hearst Fellows are full-time employees with competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance and moving expenses.
What it could mean for your future
You may be offered a job at the end of the two-year program.
While participation in the program is not a guarantee of future employment, our goal is to recruit candidates who eventually will join our full-time professional staff. All of us at Hearst Fellowships have an investment in your future… and in the future of Hearst Newspapers.
Hearst Fellowships jump-start great journalism careers
The experience you gain as a Hearst Fellow is the start of a strong foundation for your journalism career. Our objective is to recruit, train and retain talented journalists. We identify and develop high-caliber multimedia professionals from a diverse pool of the country’s best reporters, copy editors, photographers, designers and graphic artists. Candidates should be college graduates with interest, experience or background in journalism or related fields. Those selected will have the opportunity to grow in one of the world’s best journalism organizations.
How Fellows are selected
Hearst’s leading editors will evaluate applications and select finalists to take a writing test. Following the test evaluation, finalists will engage in an online interview with the Editors-in-Chief from our prominent metropolitan newspapers. This is the stage where we will choose the Hearst Fellows.
Professional assistance to ensure your best chance of success
If you are offered and accept a position, you will be assigned a mentor and can develop professional relationships with seasoned journalists throughout Hearst Newspapers. Your mentor will be a peer with expertise in your area of interest and will help you set and reach career goals. You will work with them alongside your direct supervisor, who will design your formal development plan.