Tax Notes

Journalist

• Works under supervision to write tax-related news stories for daily publication by attending scheduled meetings, press conferences, and events.
• Conducts interviews, research, and fact-checking.
• Develops contacts with government officials, private practitioners, and other sources and participates in weekly editorial meetings.
• Responsibilities include filing daily and weekly news stories.
• Researches, reports, and writes stories or other news content for print and electronic publications as requested by the editors.
• Covers scheduled tax-related hearings, press conferences, and other events or developments as assigned.
• Collects information by obtaining press kits, government releases, other documents, and interviews; does thorough research.
• Develops a “beat” as assigned by the editors, and a network of sources knowledgeable about that beat.
• Coordinates story ideas and writing assignments with editorial staff as needed.
• Attends editorial meetings.
• May support Reporters II or III or Senior Reporters in their projects, as assigned.
• Enters information in the Content Management System, according to established procedures.
• May be required to travel to cover tax-related events in other cities and/or countries.
• Adheres to established publication deadlines and company style guide.
• May use social media to engage with readers and build source networks.

Reporter I