Bloomberg seeks a distressed debt reporter

The energy of a newsroom. The pace of a trading floor. We work hard and we work fast, moving markets and chronicling the rise and fall of the people who make them. We are known for our quality, accuracy and ability to deliver news investors can use. It’s what keeps us inventing and re-inventing, all the time.

You’d be part of a team that covers the most financially troubled companies in the Americas, the ones saddled with distressed debt and bankruptcies. The field includes some of the biggest household names, and a roster that’s likely to grow after an unprecedented wave of borrowing to weather the pandemic. The job includes cultivating sources to break news, and then using your story-telling skills to analyze and explain what went wrong.

We’re passionate about breaking news and writing stories that set the agenda, and we want reporters who are just as comfortable taking the lead on a story as they are collaborating with teammates. You’d be based in either Wilmington, Delaware, home to one of the nation’s most active bankruptcy courts, or in a New York office that serves as the headquarters to one of the smartest and boldest media organizations in the world.

We’ll trust you to:

Break news on the biggest distressed companies in North America
Lean on existing sources and develop new ones to generate intelligent, high-impact, market-moving scoops
Talk about your stories on Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Quicktake
Analyze industry data
Cover the beat with speed and accuracy
Write insightful, thought-provoking features that add value
Collaborate with colleagues across our more than 120 bureaus globally.

You’ll need to have:

A minimum of three years in journalism with a focus on credit markets or corporate finance, or five years in business journalism with a proven track record for breaking news on beat coverage of a company or industry
Experience with real-time news
Ability to write quickly and clearly under deadline pressure
Ability to generate exclusive, breaking news as well as informative feature stories
A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.