Financial Markets Reporter

Responsibilities

• Produce three or four articles per week, ranging from short takes to longer deep dives.
• Identify key market trends and why they matter.
• Provide readers with timely, informative articles on individual stocks.
• Build narratives around key investing stock trends using Morningstar data and other sources.
• Report on how notable fund managers are approaching the market and individual stocks.
• Obtain, work with, and analyze meaningful data from in- and outside of Morningstar.
• Turn data into compelling charts and visualizations.
• Aid with ad hoc writing and editing needs.

Requirements

• 3+ years actively covering stocks or other markets.
• A passion for the markets and crafting well-written stories.
• Experience covering mutual funds, ETFs and other investing topics is a strong plus.
• Curious, creative thinker with a collaborative approach to producing quality journalism and storytelling.
• Proven ability to write on deadline and for same-day turnaround.
• Strong news judgment for identifying subjects for articles.
• Demonstrated comfort with Excel and learning new databases and other tools.
• A bachelor’s degree.

Pay

Base Salary Compensation Range: $65,814.00 - $96,542.66

Incentive Target Percentage: 7.5%

Schedule

Morningstar offers a hybrid work environment with a four-day in-office workweek.