Bloomberg seeks housing policy reporter in DC

Want to cover a complex and important financial beat that your relatives and friends can actually relate to? That will make you the most sought-after conversationalist at a party? It’s about housing and commercial real estate and mortgages and finance and public policy and politics and the single-largest investment that most people will ever make in their lives. And it’s also about Wall Street and banking and investment and the issues that will make a successful reporter on the beat a star among the people who subscribe to the Bloomberg Professional Service.

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We want to be first on every story, but that doesn’t mean we expect you to get there all on your own. We’re happy to share information, ideas, and contacts across our news teams and platforms whenever we can. To succeed in our business, it helps to have a lot of friends.

We’ll trust you to:

• Cover breaking news with uncanny speed
• Lean on existing sources and develop new ones to generate intelligent, impactful, marketing-moving news
• Pitch and write short and long form articles
• Write for a range of platforms, including the Bloomberg Terminal, the web and Bloomberg Businessweek
• Collaborate with colleagues across teams and countries

You’ll need to have:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• A minimum of three years in journalism, preferable with a focus on business
• Experience working with real-time news
• Ability to write quickly and concisely under deadline pressure

To apply, go here.