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Business Investigations Editor
| Company | The New York Times |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $170000 – $200000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 7+ years of journalistic and management experience, with the ability to make sound, independent judgments about quality and process
- 5+ years of experience serving as a leader on coverage spanning subjects and desks
- The backbone to withstand aggressive pushback, impeccable ethics and a commitment to open-minded journalism
Responsibilities
- You will manage a team of reporters, with responsibility for staffing decisions.
- You will generate ideas for news and enterprise, not just for their reporters but for the desk as a whole.
- You will help determine the desk’s investigative coverage and assign and edit news stories and enterprise stories.
- You will help identify topics and figure out reporting avenues, to advise on source relationships, to vet documents and sources, to overcome reporting roadblocks and to help structure stories.
- You will do extensive coordinating with photo, graphic and data journalists in Business and with editors and reporters on other desks as well as the masthead and The Times’s legal department.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- You will report to the Business Head Editor.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience as an investigative reporter is a big plus
- A willingness to be flexible as the newsroom’s needs evolve
