Job Description
The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute is looking for a creative and passionate researcher to contribute to our journalism antimonopoly policy team. This candidate cares about consolidation in media and wants to study how Big Tech influences critical decisions about how we inform our communities, and who participates while developing policy research and advocacy skills.
Specifically, we are looking for someone to support CJL’s work on media independence and consolidation, tech policy and AI governance, and digital advertising. In this internship, you’ll help the Open Markets policy team grapple with these questions through the lens of corporate power and how competition policy and antitrust enable press freedom. This role will work closely with CJL’s director on research and communications.
You may also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Markets’ The Corner newsletter and collaborate with other policy organizations working on antitrust enforcement in journalism and media. We welcome applicants with experience or studies in journalism, political economy, law or policy research.
We believe that corporate power disproportionately hurts the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, working class people, women and LGBTQ people. Because these communities must be centered in Open Markets’ work, we strongly encourage people with these identities to apply.
Benefits
This is a hybrid, part-time paid spring internship for students or recent grads. Starting wage of $18 per hour. The CJL team works from the office two days per week.
Location
Work must be performed in or near Washington, DC
How to apply
Please submit a resume, references, and a cover letter (one-page maximum) describing your interest in journalism, technology and/or antitrust policy, and in CJL’s work. Please send your application with the subject line “Journalism Policy Intern Application” to jobs(at)openmarketsinstitute.org. No calls please.
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About the Open Markets Institute
The Open Markets Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that works to address threats to democracy, individual liberties, and national security from today’s unprecedented levels of corporate concentration and monopoly power. The Open Markets team of journalists, lawyers, and activists is widely recognized as the vanguard, in the words of the Financial Times, in “driving the debate” around both the nature of the threat posed by concentrated power and what to do about it. Open Markets uses research and journalism to expose the dangers of monopolization and identifies changes in policy and law to address them. Open Markets also engages with and educates leading policymakers, law enforcers, academics, movement groups, and other influential stakeholders on how to restore the market structures and corporate regulations that long formed the bedrock of American democracy. Open Markets also operates the Center for Journalism & Liberty, which is part of the Knight Research Network.
Job posted: May 5, 2025