Business Reporter (Casual)

The role

The Casual Business News Reporter will produce original coverage of companies, industries, markets, entrepreneurship, and economic trends for a US audience. The role involves pitching, researching, and producing breaking news, exclusive reporting, interviews, analyses, and features.

What you will do

• Produce multiple business news stories each day to a high editorial standard.
• Generate original story ideas that differentiate Newsweek's business coverage from competitors.
• Cover companies, industries, markets, entrepreneurship and economic trends through original reporting and analysis.
• Develop exclusive stories by securing expert interviews, obtaining data and documentation, and cultivating source relationships.
• Report on the challenges, opportunities and innovations shaping small businesses and entrepreneurs across the United States.
• Monitor corporate developments, industry trends, regulatory changes, earnings announcements, public filings and other business news sources.
• Evaluate and rapidly turn relevant company press releases into accurate news stories.
• Respond quickly to breaking business news while adding meaningful context, analysis and reporting.
• Use data, research and public records to support and deepen coverage.
• Collaborate with editors, visuals and audience teams to package stories with multimedia elements.

Required qualifications

• Experience reporting on business, finance, economics, companies or entrepreneurship in a reputable, fast-paced newsroom.
• Proven ability to generate original story ideas and produce high-quality digital journalism under deadline pressure.
• Strong reporting and sourcing skills, including the ability to obtain on-the-record comment from companies, experts and industry stakeholders.
• Excellent news judgement and the ability to identify meaningful business stories beyond the daily news cycle.
• Strong understanding of the US business landscape, including major industries, economic trends and emerging sectors.
• Ability to analyse and explain complex business topics clearly and accurately for a broad audience.
• Outstanding writing, research and fact-checking skills.
• Working knowledge of media law, sourcing best practices and ethical journalism.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a remote newsroom environment.

Nice to have

• Track record of exclusive reporting, investigations, scoops or high-impact enterprise journalism.
• Experience covering small business, entrepreneurship, start-ups or innovation.
• Familiarity with corporate filings, earnings reports, economic data and public records.
• Experience using data journalism techniques, spreadsheets and public datasets to support reporting.
• Proficiency with content management systems, digital publishing tools and audience analytics.
• Understanding of SEO and audience development strategies.
• Experience incorporating multimedia elements, including charts, graphics, video and social embeds.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Teams and other collaboration tools used in distributed newsrooms.
• WordPress experience

About the company

Newsweek is a global media organization that reaches 100 million people each month with news, opinion, images, graphics, and video. It is headquartered in New York City and publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.