The media plays a crucial role in that effort by gathering and disseminating information on the behavior of different players in the market and uncovering potential wrongdoings.
With the aim of shaping the next generation of leaders in business reporting, we launched the Stigler Center’s Journalists in Residence Program in 2017. The program provides a transformative learning experience for journalists working in all forms of media around the world. Participants spend approximately 12 weeks on our Hyde Park campus, auditing classes, participating in Stigler Center events, collaborating with peers, and networking with the university’s scholars.
Journalists with some years of media experience, proficient English, and an interest in deepening their knowledge and understanding of political economy are encouraged to apply.
LUIGI ZINGALES: The Stigler Center, we focus on the various ways in which competition is
subverted by vested interests. Media play a crucial role in a good functioning of the market economy.
There is less and less money in news reporting. It's very hard for journalists to receive their adequate level
of training.
MADHAV V. RAJAN: We launched the Stigler Center's Journalists in Residence program back in 2017
with the aim of shaping the next generation of leaders in business reporting, giving some of the world's most
promising business journalists the tools that they need to investigate, understand, and promote
markets.
STEPHEN CARROLL: I definitely learned an awful lot during this program and things that I probably
should have known before as a business journalist, for example, learning about accounting principles
and how to read the detail in company accounts, things that I wouldn't necessarily have been able to do, particularly
at speed, before.
LUIGI ZINGALES: I think it's important to bring journalists from all over the world because one
of the goals of this program is to expose our students and our faculty to what happens around the world.
BROOKE FOX: Personally, I had never been a reporter in a foreign country. And so it was a really good opportunity for me
to learn about what is reporting like in India, what is journalism like in China right now? I mean, it was truly a global program,
and that was an education for me.
SAMUEL SANYA: Being around Chicago and going to some of the major sites and understanding the US economy was very life changing for me.
ADESOLA AFOLABI: Bull's games, the Cubs games...We went to the Andy's Jazz Club one Friday and that was really soothing.
It was just the perfect end to a very serious study week. I really enjoyed that.
And I think those are some of my really great memories that I'm going to take back home with me from Chicago.
GABRIEL BALDOCCHI: Being able to interact with the students and the faculty was definitely something that
stood out in the program to me.
TANYA THOMAS: You walk down the corridor, and you're running into Nobel Prize laureates, right? That's quite cool.
SAMUEL SANYA: There's so many seminars that we have here about so many things that are going on around the world.
When you come here, you're able to see how things happen from the inside of the business world, how people, how the executives think.
It just changes how you think as a business journalist. You leave this program with a feel for what's to come,
a deeper understanding for what is. When you go back to reporting, you're reporting more with an insider's view of things. Do apply. This is worth it.
The program offers exclusive seminars, opportunities to study with world-class faculty, and the chance to network with colleagues from around the world. Details include:
*The stipend is subject to tax withholding of up to 14 percent for international participants. Please check your country’s tax treaty with the United States for more information.
Program participants are expected to:
Audit three classes
Attend and actively participate in classes and complete all required readings and assignments
Participate in Stigler lectures, lunches, and social events as well as other events recommended by the center
Sign a letter of agreement with the center to indicate that the program guidelines and expectations are mutually agreed upon
The application for the Spring 2024 program is now closed.
Applications must have been submitted by 11:59pm on Sunday, October 15.
Application deadline: October 15, 2023
Applicants will be notified of final decisions in December.
The Spring 2024 program will run from approximately March 11 - June 1, 2024.
For questions about this application, please contact Rachel Piontek, associate director.
The program has enriched the careers of participants from around the world. Here’s what some of our alumni have to say about their experiences.
Program participants come to Booth from media outlets all over the world. Here’s a look at where our past participants have come from.
Meet Our Alumni
Questions about the Stigler Center’s Journalists in Residence Program? See our FAQ for answers to the questions we hear most often.
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