The Plug seeks a tech policy reporter

The Plug is looking for a national business policy reporter to cover ecosystem innovation, with a particular emphasis on how business policy and legislation currently impacts and will impact the future of entrepreneurs and communities of color.

We are looking for someone who reports and writes quickly, accurately, and authoritatively and has a hunger for breaking big and unique stories. This reporter will deliver important scoops, build relationships with tech policy teams, institutions, congressional groups and think tanks.

Requirements

3-5 years of newsroom reporting experience

Journalism, economics, and/or public policy degree

The tech policy reporter will work closely with the Managing Editor to refine coverage and story ideas as well as contribute to investigative projects, and data visualizations. In addition to coordinating your coverage into the larger editorial calendar the policy reporter is also expected to:

Produce 1-2 stories per week
Have a working knowledge of tech policy, law, and judicial beats
Cultivate and utilize existing sources relationships
Coordinate with and plan editorial coverage proactively

WHO WE ARE

The Plug is subscription-based digital news and insights platform covering the Black innovation economy.

Launched in 2016 as the first daily tech newsletter, The Plug curated the top news of Black founders and innovators. Today, we investigate and report on Black tech trends, stories, and breaking news, and we do it with the analysis you won’t find elsewhere.

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.