Personal Investing Reporter

📈 Our Bloomberg News Money team is growing, and I’m looking for two seasoned reporters who can translate complex financial shifts into great stories for a smart, ambitious audience.

The first role is for someone who can find original, must-read stories in the world of investments and the psychology of markets. You should be able to spot novel ways people are moving money and report on them for a discerning reader who already has skin in the game.

The second role covers money more broadly, including the long financial arc of family, from the ROI of education to the leap from college to career. You are the kind of reporter who can get real people on the phone quickly, get them to share their specific money stories, and show how larger economic factors affect their bottom line.

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Posted by: Nikki Walker

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Description & Requirements

Bloomberg News is seeking a reporter to join our Money team to cover individual investing as a pillar of modern personal finance. This beat is about how people put money to work, how they decide what risk they can live with, and how new products and easy access are influencing those choices. You will write about what people are buying and how they are buying it, with a clear eye on costs and consequences.

We want a reporter who can catch an investing idea taking shape early, before it hardens into consensus. You should live close enough to the online conversation and be in tune with the broader macro and market environment to know what is gaining traction, and skeptical enough to ask what is true.  The successful candidate can choose a specific group or investing vehicle and make it real on the page, defined by age, stage, and real dollars at stake. You can get investors on the record, report their lives with care, and show why their choices matter beyond the market close.

News and enterprise are central to the role, alongside ambitious service and how-to journalism. You will deliver stories that identify what is changing in personal investing, who is being pulled in, and where the risks are hiding. You will also produce sophisticated guides that answer the burning questions readers bring to Bloomberg, including how to access a hard-to-reach asset, how a new vehicle really works, and what costs and constraints shape the outcome. The work should be rigorous, sourced, and lively on the page.

To be considered, please submit your application by Wednesday, March 11.

You’ll have:

• Strong reporting and writing skills, with the ability to explain market dynamics and investing ideas in plain English without oversimplifying;
• Fluency in, or demonstrated ability to build real expertise in, investing, retail trading, ETFs and other consumer financial instruments;
• A meticulous approach to accuracy, sourcing, and verification, especially with numbers, thresholds, timelines, and prices;
• The range to write multiple story types, including fast news, ambitious enterprise, and high-utility service and how-to journalism;
• The ability to spot juicy stories and compelling subjects that matter to a sophisticated, ambitious audience, and the skills to tell those stories on many platforms.

We’ll trust you to:

• Deliver authoritative reporting on how individual investors are allocating their money, finding investment opportunities and weighing the risks and rewards.
• Produce a stream of stories that mixes quick, thoughtful angles on the news with longer-range reporting, without losing momentum or quality
• Build service and how-to pieces that are genuinely useful and current, smartly contextualized and anchored in reporting.
• Have and develop sources among advisers, ordinary investors, analysts and figures in the personal finance industry, along with skills for reaching real people–on deadline–and getting them on the record;
• Collaborate across the newsroom on presentation and reach, partnering with editors and other teams to make the work clear, distinctive, and built to reach a large audience. 

Salary Range = 115000 - 150000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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