The Financial Times is offering a three-month internship in the memory of Peter Martin, the FT’s former chief business columnist and deputy editor, who died in August 2002 at the early age of 54.

Peter, one of the very best business writers of his generation, made an outstanding contribution to the Financial Times with his ideas, wit and humanity. As well as writing columns that sparkled with original insight, he played a key role in the international development of the paper and in the conception and expansion of its online presence with FT.com.

The successful candidate will join the leaderwriting team of the FT in London for a period of three months, from July to September 2005. We are looking for someone with a good grounding in economics, a capacity for original thinking and an ability to write fluently and accessibly for a well-informed, but nonprofessional, readership. Candidates should have a strong interest in subjects that especially interested Peter: business and, in particular, the economic impact of technological change.

The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, and John Willman, Chief Leader Writer. A bursary of £4,000 to cover travel and accommodation will be made.

Candidates should email a curriculum vitae and a draft editorial of 500 words on of the three following subjects, to pmfellow@ft.com.

1. Priorities for development assistance
2. Regulating the internet
3. Limits of European Union expansion

Applications should arrive by 22 April 2005.
Please note the deadline has been brought forward.

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