AI Reporter

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About the role

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a nimble, hungry reporter to join our ambitious tech team covering the high-stakes race to build superintelligence. We are looking for candidates with sourcing within the most influential AI labs—including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, xAI, and beyond—to help us break exclusive, agenda-setting news and revelatory enterprise projects. This role requires speed, creativity, and collaboration. You and your colleagues—a mix of enterprise and beat reporters—will dominate stories about the products, personalities, and priorities of Silicon Valley’s top AI companies.

The ideal candidate can produce a steady stream of scoops and strong analysis while working toward ambitious, long-form stories. You are excited to get inside company town halls, memos, and turning points and can’t wait to help readers make sense of major developments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a track record of enviable scoops that reveal internal strategy and decision-making inside companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, xAI, and beyond.
• Be deeply sourced across the ranks and workforce writ large at major AI companies.
• Develop original enterprise stories and balance advancing them with daily news demands.
• Work with colleagues across bureaus to keep our readers up to date on the fast-changing world of AI research and product development.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional journalism and preferably three years of experience covering technology.
• A demonstrated ability to write quickly and cleanly to break news and deliver impactful stories.
• The ambition to separate from the pack and find original angles on stories the entire world is watching.
• The metabolism to deliver a steady cadence of quick-turn news while advancing enterprise work.
• The persistence and skill required to unearth fresh, high-stakes stories through aggressive sourcing and document diving.
• A collaborative spirit and a desire to partner with colleagues across the newsroom.
• Excellent communication skills to liaise with colleagues in other offices and time zones.

Pay

Base pay range: $140,000 - $175,000. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.