Axios

Reporter

Axios

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $75,000 - $115,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Axios is a company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format.
  • Cover the San Diego, California area as part of Axios Local, creating a meaningful local presence.
  • Author a daily Axios newsletter that features insights and scoops for the San Diego audience.
  • Connect the dots between local, national, and global developments to make readers aware of narratives shaping their lives.
  • Create stories across multiple platforms, including newsletter, web and social media.
  • Help build Axios Local and shape how the product evolves.

Requirements

  • Authoring a daily Axios newsletter that features insights and scoops that matter most to the San Diego audience
  • A command of the local market along with the sourcing necessary to illuminate busy readers about the community where they live
  • Helping build Axios Local and shape how the product evolves
  • Ability to create stories across multiple platforms, including newsletter, web and social media
  • Experience covering news in San Diego
  • Excellent sources and ability to create new ones
  • Strong reporting skills and comfort working in a fast-paced news environment and on deadline
  • Ability to decipher data, break news and create conceptual scoops
  • Deep knowledge of the local market, including politics, business, and/or social issues
  • Background in understanding local and national news coverage more broadly
  • A belief in and dedication to writing in Smart Brevity