Prepare to Launch: Expert advice on internships, jobs and early career pathways in business journalism

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How do you break in and thrive in the early years of your career as a business journalist?  How do you turn an internship, assistantship or other entry-level gig into a beat-reporting position—and then succeed in this highly competitive field?  We’ll hear from young reporters who’ve done it and from an editor who hires and mentors them.  The session will be moderated by students in the Business Journalism course at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno.

Panelists:

Aisha Al-Muslim is the Senior Editor for Newsroom Internships at The Wall Street Journal. She is an award-winning journalist and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Previously, she was a bankruptcy reporter and a breaking business news reporter for WSJ. She is a former towns reporter and business reporter at Newsday on Long Island, N.Y.

Emma Goldberg covers the future of work for The New York Times. Before joining the Business section, she worked for the Times editorial board. She is the winner of the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Best New Journalist Award, the New York Press Club’s Nellie Bly Award, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s Sidney Award.

Hardika Singh is a markets reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She was part of the summer 2021 Wall Street Journal newsroom intern class. A graduate of Ohio University, she previously interned with Bloomberg News and reported on American and Canadian equities. She also worked as a small business reporter in Appalachia with Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs.