Bloomberg News & University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Each year, one Steamboat Scholar is selected from the junior class at UNC-Chapel Hill to intern in the field of business journalism at Bloomberg News.

Michael Bloomberg, now mayor of New York City, founded his eponymous financial data network in 1981. Since then, it has grown to a global financial information and news service, encompassing real-time news, television, radio, and Internet, as well as an award-winning magazine and publishing division. Bloomberg has helped change the way the world looks at financial news and information, and drives investment decisions that affect millions of people and billions of dollars worldwide.

The Steamboat Scholar will work at Bloomberg News for ten weeks in the summer of 2010, assisting in reporting and writing for the print operations of the largest online financial news service. Bloomberg News interns contribute to the coverage of financial markets, companies and economies in a competitive, real-time news environment.

The Steamboat Scholar also has access to a unique Senior Mentor, Chartered Financial Analyst Tom Keene, who hosts the twice-daily radio show "Bloomberg on the Economy," and contributes to the television broadcast network and editorial team. One-on-one sessions with Mr. Keene and observation of influential financial players will enrich the Scholar's understanding of key trends and dynamics underlying the global financial markets.

Important Dates

On-Campus Information Session - September 10, 2009, 5pm Carroll 283
Application Due - October 20, 2009
Semi-Finalist Interviews - November 4, 2009
Finalist Interviews - November 20, 2009
Scholar Notification - Late November