The Information seeks a private equity reporter

The Information was founded in late 2013 with a simple idea: write deeply reported articles about the technology industry that you won’t find elsewhere.

Since then, we’ve become a disruptor in business news that’s moved markets, gotten the early scoop on billions of dollars of acquisitions, and told you what’s happening inside companies like Apple, Meta and Google. As a subscription-only publication, we aim high and take on challenging stories and adhere to the highest of journalistic standards. What we put into the work is just as in-depth as our output. We’ve attracted tens of thousands of paying subscribers who look to us for breaking news stories and impactful features. As we look to expand our coverage in alignment with the needs of our subscribers, we continue to invest aggressively in our team.

Wall Street and Silicon Valley have never been more tightly intertwined, and their relationship has never been more important. The Information is building a Finance section that will give its readers a commanding and authoritative mix of scoops and insight that spans both coasts, fueled by inside information from the most important players in finance.

We are looking for someone who is excited about helping build an all-star team that will deliver big scoops and offer best-in-class insight and analysis. The possibilities for this team are endless, and we’re just getting started.

We’re seeking a reporter to dive deep into the world of private equity, where firms are modernizing and leaning into tech. Blackstone, the juggernaut of the PE world, has shifted more of its business toward growth. Francisco Partners just finished raising nearly $17 billion to invest in tech companies. Just a few months ago, Thoma Bravo shelled out $10.7 billion to buy software firm Anaplan. Tens of billions of dollars of dry powder sit in firms’ growth funds, waiting to fuel dynamic stories and big scoops. Join us and let’s tell readers together.

High-caliber reporters are the lifeblood of our business, and we firmly believe in rewarding those reporters’ performance. Our audience is full of influential, smart people – you’ll find that many of your sources are regular readers of The Information. We don’t have story or click quotas. We don’t play whack-a-mole with breaking news. We don’t have editors trying to reverse-engineer SEO. We don’t have a million editing layers and a bunch of red tape between you and a great story.

We just do really good reporting. If that’s your thing, we hope you’ll join us. This position reports to our finance editor, Nate Becker.

We’ll trust you to:

Keep and cultivate relationships with trusted sources inside PE firms and those around them
Deliver and help triangulate scoops around PE, deals and finance broadly
Produce deeply reported features and profiles covering the biggest ideas and people in the private-equity world
Contribute to a great, welcoming team culture with high standards of journalism

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

Previous experience as a business or finance reporter
A thirst for getting scoops – and we hope you’ll have a track record of delivering them
The ability to source deeply across multiple levels and firms
The emotional intelligence to be a great teammate and person
The desire to be constantly learning and growing

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.