Senior Tech Reporter, NBC News Digital
Senior Tech Reporter, NBC News Digital
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Job Description
NBC News Digital is seeking a Senior Technology Reporter to focus on the industrys leading companies CEOs products and their impact on society.
This is a beat about power and influence unearthing new information about how tech leaders and platforms are shaping peoples behavior perceptions of reality politics policy and the economy.
The reporter will have a wide remit focusing on revelatory reporting and the storylines with the largest import and impact: Sam Altmans decisionmaking at OpenAI. The impact of Mark Zuckerbergs policy changes at Meta. Scoopy stories out of Elon Musks orbit from Tesla to DOGE and beyond.
This broad description will allow the person in this role to drive into a core area of expertise while also flexing into other major storylines of the day.
The ideal candidate will have experience with deep sourcebuilding and enterprise reporting on one or several tech beats with a history of scoops and exclusives. We are looking for someone who is excited to activate on major breaking news adding context analysis and fresh information.
Success in this role means publishing revelatory exclusive information; rich and deep enterprise reporting; and sharp and engaging analysis. Your journalism should be insightful and useful to our audience and distinct from the scores of other reporters on the tech beat today.
The reporter has to be an impeccable and engaging writer who can capture the zeitgeist and be a thought leader in their space. Their source base must also be impeccable with a broad range of wellplaced and wellinformed sources who will illustrate major storylines.
This reporter will work closely with teams across Digital with the NBC News business and economy unit and with the Washington DC Bureau. The reporter will be part of the NBC News Digital team with an immediate focus on writing for and leading a new weekly newsletter. Theyll share their reporting with the broader network and then appear on air if requested.
This position can be based fulltime in San Francisco Washington DC or New York and is designated as hybrid generally contributing from the office a minimum of 3 days per week.
This position is represented by the NewsGuild CWA.
Key Responsibilities
- Publishing exclusive and revelatory information at a regular cadence
- Desire to write about the industrys leading companies CEOs and products with an ability to hit the zeitgeist
- Focus on major storylines of national interest and deliver scoops and detailed wellwritten enterprise and analysis pieces.
- Having a deep robust accurate and pluggedin source base
- An ability to write with flair and voice while not veering into opinion
Qualifications :
- At least 8 years reporting on the technology industry or a related beat
- Impeccable journalistic standards and ethics and a high bar for sourcing
- Ability to produce fresh information for a 1x weekly newsletter
- Ability to jump between breaking news exclusives and deeper takes
- Comfortable discussing reporting on NBC platforms when needed
Desired Characteristics
- Desire to work closely across teams to get the best story
- Understands audience engagement and how to make stories stand out online
Additional Requirements:
- Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) paid leave tuition reimbursement and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $150000 $200000
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
