Lorana Sullivan Senior Business Fellowship

Corporate power is at its zenith in America today. We want you to help us hold those corporations and interests to account.

We’re not interested in having you cover the news. Your job will be to do enterprising, hard-hitting stories, whether short, medium or long. Our interests run the gamut, from corporate malfeasance to consumer flimflams to employment discrimination to financial skulduggery.

It will help to have some experience covering business and to know your way around a balance sheet and a 10-K. But we love great reporters — including those who haven’t necessarily defined themselves as “investigative reporters.”

These fellowships are made possible by a grant from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation, which was funded from the estate of the pioneering female business journalist Lorana Sullivan.

Reporting fellows at ProPublica write their own stories — like this one — and also collaborate with other reporters on big projects.

Fellows at ProPublica have gone on to work at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Politico and NPR — as well as ProPublica itself.

The fellowships run for a year, pay $900 per week and include full benefits. They will be based at our headquarters in New York.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Recently graduated from college or journalism school, or is relatively early in their journalism career
• Is committed to aggressively reporting stories about abuses of power
• Is truly excited about all the possible ways we can do journalism nowadays: from deep data-digging, to working with readers, to marrying narrative and investigative forms
• Really likes working with others. Everybody at ProPublica has their own superpower, whether it’s sourcing, document-diving, data, engagement or design. And we do our best work together.

We know there are great candidates who won’t fit every trait we’ve described above, or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply. There’s a place on the application for you to tell us more.
We are dedicated to improving our newsroom, in part by better reflecting the people we cover. (Here is a breakdown of our own staff.) We are committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages, and we’re taking active steps to meet this commitment. We especially encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, apply using this form.

The deadline for applications is July 12.

Have questions? Email nick.varchaver@propublica.org.