The Leasing Foundation has partnered with asset finance provider Maxxia and Leasing Life to launch the ‘New Blood’ Asset Finance Journalism Internship.
Funded by Roger Skinner, chief executive officer of Maxxia, the programme will grant interns the chance to work on the Leasing Life bureau alongside the magazine’s staff reporters and editor.
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Through the internship, the Leasing Foundation aims to develop a generation of professional journalists, who are both aware of and educated around the alternative financing landscape.
Set to begin June 2014, the programme will be open to current or recently graduated journalism students, and will focus on fostering ‘modern, online, data-driven, meticulously-researched, insight-based and impactful journalism in leasing and asset finance’.
Peter Thomas, chief operations officer of the Foundation, said: "The New Blood intern will be supported by the Foundation through access to the leading experts in leasing and asset finance around the world, and with the support of experienced trade journalists at Leasing Life."
He added: "The internship provides an unparalleled opportunity for aspiring financial journalists to learn directly from the experts, write stories that inform and educate about the leasing and asset finance landscape and so help accurately frame public and political debate".
Roger Skinner, chief executive officer at Maxxia, said the firm’s business approach is grounded in principles such as transparency, collaboration, trust and building real relationships: "I want to ensure that these values, and the great contribution that the leasing and asset finance industry can and does make to supporting economic growth, is reported accurately, intelligently and with real purpose so that all businesses and communities gain a greater understanding of the role that the industry plays.
"The New Blood Internship is our way of doing that."
