MBA Media Fellow

This MBA Fellowship offers an experience you won’t find anywhere else. Created in partnership by The New York Times, POLITICO, The Atlantic, and The Guardian, the program gives fellows a front-row seat into how four of the world’s leading news organizations think, operate, and innovate.

Over the summer, fellows work on meaningful strategic projects while participating in shared workshops, leadership conversations, and cross-company programming. The experience offers exceptional access to senior leaders, exposure to different approaches across the media industry, and a powerful network of peers — all designed to help shape the next generation of media and business leaders.

The Atlantic

Since 1857, The Atlantic has been a home for some of America’s best writers and boldest thinkers — from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass to James Baldwin and Sylvia Plath. Today, The Atlantic is a media company navigating one of the most consequential technological shifts in the history of media.

The fellow placed at The Atlantic will sit within the Office of the CEO, working directly at the intersection of strategy and emerging technology. This role exists to help The Atlantic think clearly and act deliberately about artificial intelligence — identifying where it creates genuine opportunity, documenting what is being tried, tracking how it is working, and helping the organization learn from both its successes and its missteps.

This is not a role for someone who wants to watch from the sidelines. The fellow will serve as an AI connector across teams — translating between business priorities and technical possibilities, bringing rigor to a space that often lacks it, and helping The Atlantic build toward an AI strategy that is both ambitious and grounded.

What You Will Do

• Partner with the CEO’s office and AI team to identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities where AI can meaningfully advance The Atlantic’s goals
• Serve as a cross-functional connector — bridging conversations between product, engineering, and business teams as AI initiatives take shape
• Document AI experiments and pilots in progress across the organization: what is being tested, how it is being implemented, and what outcomes are expected
• Track and assess the results of AI programs, building frameworks to evaluate success, surface learnings, and inform decisions about what to scale, iterate, or set aside
• Conduct research into how peer media organizations and adjacent industries are approaching AI adoption, and synthesize findings into actionable strategic recommendations
• Prepare clear, well-structured memos, presentations, and briefings to communicate AI strategy and progress to senior leadership
• Help establish shared language, processes, and documentation standards that make AI work more legible and repeatable across the organization

What We Are Looking For

• Currently pursuing an MBA degree
• Strategic thinker who is equally comfortable framing a big-picture opportunity and rolling up their sleeves to document a process or build an evaluation framework
• Genuine curiosity about artificial intelligence and its implications for media, business models, and knowledge work — you don’t need to be a technical expert, but you should be deeply interested
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to assess programs and initiatives rigorously, even in the absence of perfect data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — you can synthesize complex ideas and make them clear to a non-technical executive audience
• Collaborative and comfortable navigating ambiguity across a fast-moving, cross-functional environment
• Self-starter who takes ownership, brings intellectual curiosity, and is energized by work that sits at the frontier of something new

Prior experience in strategy, consulting, product, or technology — or coursework or projects involving AI, data, or emerging technology — is a plus but not required.

Compensation: $27.00-$33.00/hourly, 40 hours guaranteed

Location: Washington, DC or New York

Duration: Summer 2026 (10–12 weeks)

Application Deadline: April 20, 2026

About The Atlantic:

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  

Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement