The reporter will work on two of Money magazine and Money.com’s signature features Best Colleges and Best Places to Live, helping grow both rankings out into full-year franchises. This person will help with research, data-analysis, and fact-checking, and will pitch, report and write related college and real estate topics for the web and magazine. Outstanding research and writing skills are required.
You will:
- Analyze internal data to help build the Best Colleges and Best Places franchises themselves—in print and online—and create new, original stories using the data
- Write profiles of colleges and cities for the respective packages, and help conceive of interesting lists to segment these into
- Assist project leads as needed with research, data analysis, and fact-checking
- Develop sources on the higher-ed and real estate beats in order to create new, interesting content that supports the franchises
- Write and create content of all types. You will help brainstorm the best way to tell your stories: text, galleries, infographics, video, etc.
- Manage multiple assignments in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Help drive traffic to the site with high-quality content that is also highly shareable and well tagged and keyworded for SEO
You are:
Someone who sees stories in numbers. You’ve had some experience—in a job, internship, or a class—doing data-driven reporting and have been able to transform facts and figures into fascinating prose. These two projects have very large data sets, and we need someone who can think logically and critically and help us crunch the data in ways that will help our audience make smarter decisions.
Eager to sink your teeth into a beat—or two. You’re itching for the chance to develop sources, and ply those sources for unique stories that haven’t been covered before or new angles on old stories. You’re a dogged reporter and a natural skeptic—when your mother says she loves you, you check it out.
An ideas person. When you look at a story in the headlines, you can see 10 more angles to cover in it. You naturally think multiplatform, because you understand the message should guide the medium—and you know how to produce content that compels a reader in any format. Above all, you relish the chance to breathe new life into a legacy brand.
If interested, please send a resume, cover letter and three clips to executive editor Margaret Magnarelli at mmagnarelli@moneymail.com.
