The Private Credit Journal Fellowship

About the Fellowship

We are hiring four junior fellows to join The Private Credit Journal, a publication focused on publishing long-form interviews with practitioners across private credit.

As a fellow, your job will be to go deep on specific topics within private credit and produce a steady cadence of in-depth interviews with the senior leaders shaping that corner of the market.

We believe this is a compelling opportunity because over the course of the fellowship, you will:

• Develop meaningful, direct relationships with the best investors and allocators in the asset class — by interviewing them, on the record, every week.
• Build a deep understanding of private credit opportunities. Many of the best investors started exactly this way — Harry Stebbings built 20VC by interviewing the people he wanted to learn from.
• Produce a body of work that becomes a canonical resource on the topics you cover — and a portfolio that signals seriousness long after the fellowship ends.

Engagement: 6 months · ~10–20 hrs/week · fellowship structure.

About Us

The Private Credit Journal is a publication building the leading source of peer intelligence for private credit, private debt, direct lending, and leveraged finance.

Private credit has moved from a niche corner of finance to a core layer of how the modern economy is financed — from corporate lending to infrastructure to the financing stacks behind private equity. The growth tailwind behind it is one of the longest in finance, and the asset class is only getting more central from here.

We are part of the DealWeek Media Group family, a collection of publications covering financial markets. If you're more interested in another asset class, you can browse our other open fellowships [here].

The Fellow's Role

The core of the fellowship is a simple loop: find the right people, ask the right questions, and publish interviews that practitioners actually learn from. Here's what that looks like in practice:

• Pick a coverage area and develop a thesis for it — what matters, what's underexplored, who the key voices are
• Build an outreach pipeline of senior leaders in your beat and land 6–8 interviews per issue cycle
• Conduct long-form interviews and turn transcripts into tight, publishable Q&As
• Develop ongoing relationships with practitioners — not one-off conversations, but the kind where they refer you to the next guest
• Contribute to the research and editorial direction as you deepen your understanding

What We're Looking For

We care about a few things:

• Genuine curiosity about finance and private credit. You're drawn to how capital actually moves through the economy, and you want to spend a year going deep on one of the most consequential corners of it.
• A basic financial background, or the ability and commitment to rapidly build one. You can engage with the substance — covenants, structuring, fund mechanics, the rest — or you're prepared to do the work to get there.
• Communication and gravitas. You write and speak clearly, and you can hold your own across the table from a senior practitioner. The access we're offering only compounds if interviewees come away impressed.
• Reliability. The fellowship is built around ownership. We expect you to ship on cadence, follow up on outreach, and treat your interviewees' time with the seriousness it deserves.
• Availability. The fellowship runs six to twelve months at roughly ten to twenty hours per week. You should have the bandwidth to commit consistently over that period.

One final thing we'd add is that we see this as closer to research and laying a foundation for you to think about private credit as an investor, as opposed to pure-play journalism. We like opportunism and a taste for ideas.

We are open on background. MBA, JD, undergraduate, finance, journalism, law, policy, or something less obvious — what matters is whether you can engage credibly with practitioners and produce writing people want to read.

Compensation

This is an unpaid fellowship for our inaugural cohort. As the publication grows, we expect to introduce stipends for future cohorts. The exchange for now is access, relationships, and a body of published work that most early-career professionals can't get any other way.

How to Apply

Fill out the form at the bottom of this page — about fifteen minutes, including a 90-second video. We read every application within a week. From there, the process is a short conversation with the founding team and a small trial task before we make an offer.

How to Stand Out

A few things that help:

• Show us you've already started the work — fundamentals you've taught yourself, a deal you've broken down, something you've written about the asset class.
• Bring an opinion. If you have a view on which sub-themes interest you and who you'd want to interview, say it.
• Fortune favours the bold. The candidates who stand out are the ones who didn't wait to be asked.