Staff Reporter

About the role

Quartz is seeking a Staff Reporter to join its newsroom, focusing on U.S. business news. This role requires experience in daily business news and the ability to produce high-impact enterprise stories, profiles, and narrative features.

Responsibilities

• Identify and execute high-value enterprise stories, profiles of industry disruptors, narrative features, and other high-impact business stories.
• Exercise sound news judgment around sourcing, framing, and risk, escalating sensitive or complex stories appropriately.
• Generate and pitch original story ideas rooted in deep reporting, not just reactive coverage.
• Distill complex business topics into compelling, human-centric narratives that resonate with a global audience of decision-makers.
• Build and maintain a robust network of sources to provide "inside the room" perspective on the companies and trends shaping the economy.
• Partner with senior editors and seasoned features writers to develop long-term reporting projects while maintaining a consistent cadence of ambitious individual work.
• Balance long-term enterprise projects with timely reporting when editorial judgment calls for speed.
• Represent Quartz as a leading voice in business journalism, appearing on podcasts, in our newsletters, and elsewhere to provide expert analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3 to 5 years of experience in a high-pressure, daily business newsroom, preferably with experience covering U.S. business news.
• Subject Matter Fluency: A sophisticated understanding of U.S. business, technology, markets, and more.
• The Quartz Voice: A sharp, authoritative, and engaging writing style.
• Work Ethic: A self-starter with the hustle required to land a difficult interview and the discipline to see a long-form project through to completion.
• Operational Awareness/Workflow Fluency: Comfort working alongside modern newsroom tools and workflows, with an understanding of how enterprise reporting fits into a broader digital publishing operation.