Financial Journalist - The Daily Upside : Job Details

About the Company

The Daily Upside is a fast-growing digital media company covering business, finance, economics, and investing. Our team of career journalists covers the events and forces shaping the global business climate with a passion for peeling back the layers of market-moving stories. Across our suite of properties we have over 1 million engaged subscribers.

Our flagship newsletter covers business, finance and economics for global business leaders and decision makers. We also have a suite of B2B properties: CIO Upside, focused on chief information officers and the IT community, Advisor Upside, focused on the wealth management community, and Power Corridor, focused on the intersection of Wall Street and DC.

Our mission is to empower forward-thinking business leaders with a nuanced understanding of the subtext and underlying drivers shaping the economic outlook. We write in a manner that's equal parts engaging and insightful, with a mission to be a “must read” for global business leaders looking to stay sharp on important trends.

About the Role

We are looking for a full-time, dynamic, talented, and ambitious financial journalist to write for The Daily Upside flagship newsletter. We are focused on covering the economy, finance, and the biggest corporate stories moving markets. As a finance journalist you'll be well versed across industries and be comfortable writing about macroeconomics. You'll be well sourced, helping find unique angles on stories and be breaking news. We are looking for a candidate who is comfortable diving into a range of different financial topics, with a knack for making what's important, interesting.

We strive to offer high-quality analysis that suits a variety of different audiences, specifically while providing a responsive view of the day's global stories. Ideal candidates should be able to write and edit crisply and cleanly and have excellent news judgment and analytical rigor, experience working in a news environment, an eye for detail, and a strong understanding of global politics, business, and finance.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, write, and edit our daily newsletter.
• Ensure timely and smooth publication of informative stories with clear reader takeaways.
• Socially native, with a desire to build a personal brand.
• Monitor news services and alert our editorial team to breaking stories.
• Provide insight and analysis into what's happening in the world of business, finance, economics, and investing.
• Demonstrate expertise and dominance on the beat.
• Update elements of our website pages.
• Collaborate closely with the editorial team and work seamlessly across all departments of The Daily Upside.

Requirements:

• Attention to detail and strong writing skills.
• Excellent source network and ability to create new ones.
• Well versed in a wide range of financial products and accustomed to describing financial markets, products, and economic activity in clear, direct language.
• Experience generating compelling analysis, enterprise story ideas and other content that distinguishes a publication.
• Strong reporting skills and comfort working in a fast-paced news environment and on deadline.
• Ability to break news and create conceptual scoops.
• Background in understanding local, national, and world news coverage.
• A passion for the media industry and great journalism.
• A demonstrated interest in business reporting is a plus - extensive knowledge of financial trends, concepts, and terminologies.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and commission structure. Salary for the role is commensurate with experience and depends on several factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience.
• Medical, dental, vision and long-term disability insurance.
• 401k.
• Unlimited PTO, paid holidays.
• Work from anywhere with a good internet connection (preferably in NYC or surrounding area).
• Opportunity to work with a fun and passionate team and be a stakeholder in building something truly special in the media industry.
• Regular team outings (virtual or in-person).