Video Editor
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Reporter II, Personal Finance
NPR
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, Washington
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💰 $110,000 - $135,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Cover personal finance beat including housing, living with debt, retirement and investments, taxes, and how banks treat customers
- Report audio stories for broadcast and written stories for npr.org
- Turn around stories quickly on breaking news and provide live information and analysis on NPR shows
- Develop diverse news sources to get scoops and recognize big developments on the beat
- Work on enterprise stories with impact and research/generate fresh angles
- Meticulously check facts and perform investigative reporting to expose wrongdoing at powerful institutions
- Collaborate with other reporters across NPR’s newsroom and fulfill editorial direction
- Travel occasionally and fulfill administrative obligations such as filing prompt and accurate expense reports
- Produce memorable stories for NPR readers and listeners and ensure coverage includes diverse experiences and perspectives
Requirements
- Experience reporting and producing audio journalism
- At least 4 years’ experience covering personal finance or an adjacent beat
- Demonstrated ability to pivot from breaking news to analysis to longer-form entrepreneurial reporting projects
- Ability to connect news events with impact on real people’s experiences
- Ability to explain dry business topics to a wide audience so they can understand their significance
- Ability to meet deadlines and to thrive in a daily, unpredictable news production environment
- Proven ability and commitment to work well with others, demonstrating at all times respect for the diverse constituencies at NPR and within the public radio system
- Commitment to learn and enact the best journalism practices
- Ability and willingness to relocate if needed
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- To be considered: submit CV/resume; a 2-page cover letter; links or copies of 3-5 of your most meaningful stories
- Preferred: Experience with data-driven journalism
- Preferred: Knowledge of public radio and the public radio system
- Preferred: Knowledge of AP style guidelines
- Preferred: Ability to do interviews in a language other than English
