WSJ Early Careers
Launch your journalism career with The Wall Street Journal, a trusted global news leader. Our early talent programs offer ambitious students and recent graduates robust training, mentorship and on-the-job experience in ethical, fact-based reporting. Join our award-winning newsroom and work alongside WSJ’s world-class journalists.
The Wall Street Journal offers newsroom internships primarily for college juniors. Over the course of 10 weeks, you’ll gain practical work experience with support and coaching from leading journalists.
Designed for seniors and recent graduates, WSJ News Associates is a chance to jump into key roles throughout our audience-first newsroom, gain news skills through robust classroom-based and on-the-job training and accelerate your career.
Career Pathways
Joshua Jamerson
Deputy Politics Editor
Most recently, Josh was the East Coast bureau chief on the U.S. News desk, leading coverage of national affairs in major regions of the country ranging from Boston to Miami and across the Deep South. Previously he was a national politics reporter in Washington. In that role, Joshua covered the 2022 midterm elections and the future of the U.S. political parties, spending much of his time on the campaign trail.
Joshua also covered the 2020 presidential election, including the Democratic primary. His campaign-trail reporting won a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
He previously covered Congress and the 2018 midterm elections. He first joined the Journal in 2016 to cover breaking corporate news from New York. He was an intern in 2014.
Rebecca Ballhaus
Investigative Reporter
Rebecca Ballhaus is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s investigations team, based in New York. Her work focuses on politics and government and includes investigations into conflicts of interest across the federal government, harassment and abuse at federal agencies, and the role of high-dollar donors in politics.
She previously spent eight years in the Journal’s Washington bureau, covering campaign finance, politics and the Trump White House. She was part of the team that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for revealing that Donald Trump had played a central role in a series of payoffs made to women during his presidential campaign. In 2023, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series that revealed that thousands of senior federal employees owned stock in companies their agencies oversaw. She joined the Journal as an intern in 2013.
Stu Woo
Reporter
Stu Woo is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Singapore. He writes about business in Asia, with a focus on technology and U.S.-China relations. He also contributes to the sports section, and has covered the London 2012, Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024 Olympics.
Stu has been a member of two Journal teams that won the National Press Foundation award for international-trade reporting, in 2021 and 2024. He led a team that won a 2021 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing honorable mention for covering the fashion industry’s human-rights challenges in China.
A Brown University graduate, Stu joined the Journal in 2008 as an intern in his hometown of San Francisco. He covered Sacramento and Silicon Valley before moving to the sports section in New York in 2012. He has been a foreign correspondent since 2016, with other postings in London and Beijing.