Meet WSJ’s Fall 2020 Newsroom Interns
Our fall intern class — eight in the U.S. and one in Europe — started this week. Like our summer class, they will all be working remotely with teams around the newsroom for the next 10 weeks. Read their bios below.
Jem Bartholomew
Jem will be joining the London bureau’s finance desk. He recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School with a master’s in political reporting. Jem grew up in public housing in England before studying at the University in Oxford, graduating with a first-class history degree. Next, he worked at the Financial Times in London, where he won an award for his pensions coverage, before winning a Fulbright scholarship to study at Columbia University in New York. On weekends, you can usually find him playing soccer in one of London’s parks or catching up on his favorite podcasts.
Renata Da Silva Geraldo
Renata is from São Paulo and is a 2020 honors graduate from the University of Oregon, where she majored in journalism and minored in political science. She will be working with the corporate team during her internship, as the recipient of the F. James Pensiero business reporting scholarship. Renata was a summer intern at Bloomberg News covering telecom, media and Covid-19. As a student, she was editor in chief of UO’s independent student magazine, Ethos. She previously interned at the Eugene Weekly, where she covered business and technology, and has published freelance pieces in news outlets in Brazil, the U.K. and the U.S. On weekends, you can find Renata doing yoga, learning Japanese or reading in a park.
Maya Goldman
Maya will be a reporting intern with the education team. A Michigan native, she graduated in May from the University of Michigan (Go blue!) with a degree in anthropology. Maya served as the 2019 editor in chief of the Michigan Daily, the independent student newspaper covering the University of Michigan, and has previously interned with Bloomberg Environment and Michigan Radio. This summer, she’s been working as a reporter for the Detroit Jewish News. Outside of journalism, she likes camping and working on her baking skills.
Derek Hall
Derek will be working with the Exchange team in New York. He is a 2020 graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University where he majored in journalism with a focus on economics and investigative reporting. He has interned for the Seattle Times and Bloomberg News, and his work has appeared online in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, among others. When he’s not on deadline, Derek can be found in the local climbing gym or falling off his longboard.
Logan Moore
Logan, a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting intern, will be working on the investing team. She graduated from Ohio University where she majored in journalism and minored in economics. Logan is interested in writing about market trends and their roles in everyday life. She has interned at American City Business Journals and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. In her free time, you can find her writing poetry or reading classic novels.
Donald Morrison
Donny, originally from Portland, Oregon, will be joining the U.S. News team in Los Angeles. He graduated in June from the University of Oregon, where he studied journalism and creative writing. He was also the managing editor of the UO’s student-run newspaper, the Daily Emerald. In the past, he’s been a news intern at the Eugene Weekly and the Daily Guide, Accra’s largest independently-owned newspaper in Ghana. He’s interested in public records, the entertainment industry and real estate. When not digging through documents, he’s probably at home working on the next great American novel.
Amy Nakamura
Amy, a Dow Jones News Fund digital intern, will be working with the social/off-platform desk. She is a senior at Syracuse University, where she is a dual major in magazine journalism and international relations with a minor in religion. Amy is interested in learning more about how to use the power of the internet and social media to distribute information and engage readers. She interned at her local NPR station in her home state of Hawaii in the summer of 2019 and again this past summer. In her free time, she enjoys going to the beach, eating her weight in ramen and spending time with her two cats, Bella and Leroy.
Madeleine Ngo
Madeleine will report with the politics team from Pensacola, Florida. Madeleine graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied English and economics. She most recently covered bankruptcy and credit markets as a summer intern at Bloomberg News. She also interned at Vox.com, the Dallas Morning News’ Washington bureau and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Emma Tucker
Emma will be reporting for the Greater New York team. She is originally from Baltimore, but lived in the Netherlands for eight years. Emma graduated from the New School in New York in May 2019 where she earned her degree in journalism and design. Soon after graduating, Emma worked as a communications assistant with the Recording Industry Association of America in Washington, before returning to her desired profession of journalism. She then worked as an intern with the breaking news desk at the Daily Beast, a position she began last November. She is interested in covering national stories, as well as social and cultural issues. Her senior thesis chronicled the reality of pervasive multi-generational grief in Baltimore’s most troubled neighborhoods resulting from persistent gun violence. Previously, Emma was the news editor for her university newspaper and she interned at CBS Local in Baltimore as well as Charm TV, the city’s municipal television station.
