The Messenger is looking for experienced reporters to cover personal finance and billionaires under the Wealth Team. This team will be able to spot the latest investing trends, strategies, and scams. Personal finance reporters will be able to translate complicated changes in tax law, mortgage financing, or student lending for a consumer audience as well as oversee coverage of everyday pocketbook issues – like how changes in gas prices affect household savings and spending.
Billionaires reporters will have their pulse on the wealthiest Americans, what they’re buying, where they are living, and how they are investing their money. This is a team that will straddle money issues affecting everyday Americans as well as the world’s richest billionaires.
This team will need to write about the latest financial advice for consumers at all stages in life: college graduates, families saving for retirement as well as college tuition, single professionals, and retirees. You will have at least 3 years of experience writing about personal finance or billionaires with a proven track record delivering high-quality, high-impact journalism.
Duties include:
- Generating fresh angles to everyday pocketbook issues on investing trends, interest rates, lending rates, and other consumer finance stories
- Tracking the wealthiest billionaires, what they are buying, where they are living, what they are saying, and where they invest
- Writing evergreen personal finance and wealth stories, as well as news as it breaks
- Writing headlines with an eye toward SEO
- A clear understanding of AP style and grammar
- Developing high-impact story ideas and working closely with the team to deliver them on schedule
- Cutting through the spin of company press releases and tax law changes
- Working closely with reporters across teams and departments to get ahead of the news, creatively expand on existing stories
- Collaborate with other departments, such as design and development, to ensure that all content is visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized for SEO, social media, and different platforms
Qualifications/Requirements:
- A minimum of 3 years of experience covering personal finance or wealth news
- Proven track record of breaking news and filing stories in a fast-paced, real-time news environment
- Reporting, writing, or editing investigative stories and/or long-form features is a plus
- A collaborative demeanor with experience working and coordinating with multiple teams and across multiple platforms: social media and digital video
- The ability to deliver accurate news in a high-volume, deadline-oriented environment
- May need to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, evenings, and/or weekends as news breaks
- Must be highly motivated, extremely organized, detail-oriented, and possess outstanding communication and coordination skills
- The job will be based in New York, NY with a hybrid in-office schedule. Remote work is available, depending on the situation
Desired Characteristics:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Experience at a major online news site, daily financial publication, or a large daily newspaper
- Passionate about digital storytelling and creating the best reader experience online
- Ongoing knowledge of and interest in the business world and financial news
**Salary Range: $65,000 to $150,000 (contingent upon experience)**
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Chris RoushChris 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.