USA Today seeks retail/consumer/food reporter

USA Today’s Money section seeks a New York City-based reporter to capture the excitement of the retail, consumer and food beats.

This is no ordinary opportunity. The right candidate will help set the agenda for how the flagship media organization of the USA Today Network covers how and where people spend their money.

Your mission will be to aggressively handle breaking news, leap on trends and write in-depth enterprise. The successful candidate will be eager and ready to represent USA TODAY on national television and to work with other USA Today and Network journalists to produce compelling social media, videos, interactives, data visualizations and more. It all happens on multiple platforms – digital, print, video, Facebook, Facebook Live, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter.

You will be wired into the major companies across the beat, from Walmart to McDonald’s to Nike, but also have your finger on the pulse of hot up-and-comers that are changing the game.  This reporter will constantly be on the hunt for the larger forces at work to explain what’s happening and why it matters to businesses, industries and regular people.

This reporter will stay on top of how the consumer experience is being shaped and changed by market forces, social media and technology and will find new and interesting ways to tell those stories.

While covering corporate earnings isn’t a large part of this position, previous experience doing so, is required.  You should be comfortable interviewing the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, investors and Wall Street analysts and talking to customers at the local Target.

The ability to produce clean, publishable copy is a must. Previous experience covering retail and consumer companies is preferred.

Wire service experience is a plus, but not required.

Candidates should have at least three years of journalism experience.

To apply, go here.