Full-Time

Yahoo Finance seeks a senior reporter

Yahoo Finance’s growing newsroom aims to create best-in-class content that fulfills our mission to to be the trusted daily guide to investors looking to grow their wealth. Our goal is to deliver this content in ways that are smart, accessible and ahead of the curve. We have created a work environment that is both collaborative and collegial, and encourage our employees to be ambitious and aspirational while maintaining the highest professional standards in the business.

A Lot About You

We are looking for an experienced senior reporter with strong reporting skills — someone who relishes breaking business, markets, and investing news as well as providing context inside of content.

We’re looking for someone who is an obsessive cultivator of sources and is always trying to dig below the surface to get to the real story. The ideal candidate will also have strong experience to report and analyze business and investing news on-camera for a global TV audience. The candidate will also be tasked with sitting down with newsmakers for both on-camera and text-based interviews either in Yahoo Finance’s New York City studio or at major conferences.

Your Day:

  • Report investing stories that add real value across text and video formats.
  • Report stories that will engage readers online and help fulfill Yahoo Finance’s mission to be the trusted guide for investors looking to grow their wealth.
  • Make and break news across text and video formats.
  • Interview newsmakers on live TV.
  • Contribute to Yahoo Finance’s feature on-air programming.
  • Contribute to Yahoo Finance’s annual conferences.
  • Develop innovative ways to tell stories, using the latest technology platforms.
  • Do the kind of in-depth reporting projects that will garner Yahoo Finance awards and other industry accolades.

You Must Have:

  • Excellent knowledge of financial markets, investing concepts and passion for the field of financial reporting.
  • The ability to report competitively and accurately.
  • The ability to write clearly.
  • A network of sources.
  • The ability to conduct high-profile interviews on-camera in live and taped settings.
  • The ability to work collegially and collaboratively with members of the team.
  • The highest ethical standards
  • A strong desire to innovate and experiment.

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.

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