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 Editor, Europe Business Finance & Economics
He most recently led the policy coverage out of Washington, D.C., where he was deputy politics editor, running a team of tech, trade, immigration and health reporters. Earlier he was the East Coast bureau chief of the Journal’s U.S. news team, 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.
Roshan Fernandez
Reporter
Roshan Fernandez is a reporter covering education for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously a news associate, a two-year role which included rotations in Chicago and New York across sections like corporate business, markets and social media.
Before that, Roshan was a digital producer for the Boston Globe’s audience team, managing the homepage of the website and app. He also interned with the sports desks at the Journal, Seattle Times and Richmond Times-Dispatch, writing about everything from the NFL and WNBA to short-track car racing and competitive hot dog eating. He also interned with National Public Radio on the audience team.
Jasmine Li
Reporter
Jasmine Li is a reporter covering banks and finance for The Wall Street Journal in New York. She joined the Journal as part of the news associate program, a two-year role that included rotations on Capitol Hill, markets and economics coverage and video production. Before joining the Journal, Jasmine was an editorial fellow at Fortune, covering careers and consumer habits. She previously interned at Vox Media and McKinsey & Company.
Jasmine’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine and i-D.
Owen Tucker-Smith
Reporter
Owen Tucker-Smith is a reporter covering business and autos.
Owen was a news associate at The Wall Street Journal in New York. He joined the Journal as a summer 2024 intern in Washington, where he wrote about Congress and the 2024 election. Owen previously interned in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. He also wrote about California politics for Politico and the Sacramento Bee. Before that, he interned at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah, where he covered housing and water issues for the newspaper’s Innovation Lab.
Xavier Martinez
Reporter
Xavier Martinez is a reporter covering the biotechnology industry for The Wall Street Journal in New York, where he writes about the companies racing to develop new medicines and the money behind them. His stories span dealmaking, drug pricing and patents, federal regulators and the rise of China’s biotech industry.
Xavier joined the Journal in 2024 as a news associate, a two-year role that included stints covering politics in Washington, traveling the country for the national affairs team and reporting on financial markets.
Before joining the Journal, he interned in the features department at the Seattle Times and at USAFacts, where he focused on healthcare coverage. He has reported from Mexico on how remittances shape generational wealth.