Finance & economics

Marjorie Deane internships

Applications are invited for The Economist’s 2015 Marjorie Deane internships. Financed by the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation, the awards are designed to provide work experience for a promising journalist or would-be journalist, who will spend three months at The Economist writing about economics and finance. Applicants are asked to write a covering letter and an article of no more than 500 words that they think would be suitable for publication in the Finance and economics section. Applications should be sent to [email protected] by July 3rd. For more information, please visit www.marjoriedeane.com.

This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Marjorie Deane internships”

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