Graduates

Each year, the Financial Times (FT) selects a few graduates to join its award-winning editorial team as trainee journalists.

We are looking for recent graduates or postgraduates with good academic records and the potential to become senior FT journalists.

Successful applicants spend six weeks training before joining our London editorial team.

Trainees will then spend up to two years working across the FT newspaper and website in London and overseas.

Once trained, graduates will be appointed to their first job in London.

You must show that you can meet the challenge of working for one of the world’s top news organisations. This means:

Language skills, in addition to fluent spoken and written English, are an advantage.

This scheme is not for graduates who:

Applications can be submitted now but must be received by the closing date of 31 December 2010.

Applicants must also provide evidence of a clear, concise writing style by submitting an unpublished 500-word article on a subject of their choice.

The article should demonstrate liveliness and originality. Submissions will be judged on:

If you have had other articles published, please submit no more than five cuttings.

Send the completed form, along with your unpublished article and cuttings, to:

Martin Nielsen
Senior Assistant Managing Editor
Financial Times
One Southwark Bridge
London SE1 9HL
UK

If you have a query relating to the scheme, please:

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