Associate Reporter, Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

Yahoo Finance’s award-winning newsroom aims daily to create best-in-class content that fulfills our mission to provide investors actionable financial information with unbeatable context. Our goal is to deliver this content in ways that are smart, accessible and ahead of the curve. We have created a work environment over our 28-year history that is both collaborative and collegial, and encourage our team members to be ambitious and aspirational while maintaining the highest professional standards in business news.

A Lot About You

The Yahoo Finance team is looking for a New York-based reporter with a strong foundation in journalism. The ideal candidate will be stationed daily inside the newsroom of Yahoo Finance’s New York City based office, and is someone who relishes reporting on business, markets, leaders and investing news as well as providing context inside of content.

We’re looking for someone who is looking to develop sources and their reporting skillset, and is always trying to dig below the surface to get to the real story. The ideal candidate will also have a strong appetite to report and analyze business and investing news on-camera for a global TV audience. 

Your Day:

• Report investing and business stories daily that add real value across text and video formats.

• Report stories that will engage readers online and help fulfill Yahoo Finance’s mission to provide investors actionable financial information with unbeatable context.

• Handle numerous daily reporting assignments from the Executive Editor.

• Work collaboratively with team’s senior editor and video teams.

• Contribute reporting from Executive Editor when they are at key conferences.

• Develop innovative ways to tell daily investing stories through the use of infographics, video and social media.

You Must Have:

• 6 months to 3 years reporting experience, preferably in business news.

• Solid knowledge of financial markets, investing concepts, public company leaders and passion for the field of business news reporting.

• The ability to produce numerous stories competitively and accurately each day.

• The ability to write clearly and utilize Yahoo Finance’s many datasets in your reporting.

• A network of sources and an appetite to grow it each day.

• The ability to report on camera.

• The ability to work collegially and collaboratively with members of the team.

• The highest ethical standards.

• A strong desire to innovate and experiment.

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The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $46,500.00 - $96,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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