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$ 75000 - 95000
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Job Description:
About Our Organization:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats including print digital mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the worlds largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal Americas largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barrons MarketWatch Mansion Global Financial News Investors Business Daily Factiva Dow Jones Risk & Compliance Dow Jones Newswires OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS NWSA; ASX: NWS NWSLV).
About the Team:
The Business Reporter/Writer will join a team of reporters covering breaking news and trends affecting the most important business players. Our goal is to deliver news stock analysis market insights and educational content that help IBD customers make more money in the stock market.
About the Role
Investors Business Daily seeks a Business Reporter/Writer to produce articles and related content for an audience of mostly self-directed investors.
Youll have a core beat to cover including high-profile companies but the focus is on non-tech companies and industries that currently are leading the stock market. The ideal candidate will bring a strong understanding of business fundamentals and company earnings statements excellent writing skills and the ability to quickly produce sharp and well-optimized daily stories while juggling longer-term assignments. The position offers the opportunity to further build investing expertise. Youll be able to participate in the success of your content through bonus incentives.
This position can be remote from select U.S. locations although working at IBDs Los Angeles headquarters is preferred.
You Will:
Accurately report and write engaging and well-sourced news and feature articles that benefit investors leveraging chart analysis and IBDs proprietary stock market research when appropriate. Training and information will be provided on using these resources. Content will appear on thewebsite in IBD apps and in the IBD Weekly newspaper.
Keep up to date on news and trends related to assigned coverage area including the general market IBD indexes and IBD stock performance lists.
Develop strong SEO for your content. SEO includes web headlines SEO page titles URLs meta descriptions and keywords as well as hyperlinks inserted in the body of articles.
Use databases stock charts and financial statements when appropriate to gather information for articles and related content such as graphics to accompany stories.
Participate in social media to promote your IBD content cultivate relationships with sources or others interested in the topics that you cover and help develop IBDs web audience.
May produce videos or participate in the production of videos such as by developing scripts or appearing in videos to discuss stock market news and trends.
You Have:
Bachelors degree from an accredited four-year college or university or relevant experience.
At least three years of experience as a reporter or editor including some financial journalism.
Excellent writing skills accuracy and news judgment.
Strong understanding of business fundamentals financial statements and the stock market.
Applicants should send a resume cover letter and samples or links to 3 to 6 examples of written work.
Our Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plans
Comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
Education Benefits
Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Family Care Benefits
Commuter Transit Program
Subscription Discounts
Employee Referral Program
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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy age national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application due to a disability email us at Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Business Area:
Dow Jones - W&I - IBDJob Category:
Editorial/JournalismUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $75000 - $95000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..Employment Type
Full-Time
