The Toronto Star is hiring a Personal Finance Reporter to build on the success of our business and personal finance teams. This position falls within the Journalist classification in the Star’s Editorial Department.
The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues throughout the newsroom and think beyond traditional narratives to produce stories that are accurate, comprehensive, compelling, and relevant. They are digitally savvy and ready to experiment with new forms of storytelling and incorporate feedback from customer analytics to ensure that content leads to engagement and subscriptions.
The focus will be on producing authoritative personal finance service journalism that informs, entertains and helps the reader achieve financial goals using a variety of media, including written stories, video and podcast.
Journalists can be re-assigned to any newsroom department across a variety of assignments and locations, depending on future business needs.
Qualifications
- Two or more years of experience in personal finance journalism, including writing articles and blogs, producing video and hosting podcasts
- A deep understanding of personal finance topics, including investing, real estate, debt management, portfolio construction, taxation, financial and retirement planning
- A passion for helping people solve financial problems and achieve financial goals
- The ability to communicate energetically and effectively with a large, diverse, Toronto area audience
- Excellent news judgment, storytelling and multimedia skills
- A self-starter who is flexible and able to generate quality story ideas
- Able to simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks
- Relentlessly high standards; detail-oriented and deadline-driven with the ability to produce succinct, clear, and accurate copy on deadline
- Interviewing skills and instincts to draw out subjects and gather the relevant information required to bring a story to life
- Able to develop and maintain contacts and sources, skillfully interview people in often-demanding situations and show resourcefulness skills
- Ability to monitor and interpret data to improve relevancy of coverage
This is a notice of vacancy under Article 8 of collective agreement between Toronto Star Newspapers Limited and Unifor Local 87M. The hours of work for this position will vary according to the assignment, but will all conform to a standard 35-hour work week as described under the collective agreement. These positions will be located Toronto.
Salary: $60,547.97 – $95,740.19
Please submit your application by 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.
To apply, go here.
