at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo Finance is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.
A Little About Us:
Yahoo Finance's Personal Finance news team produces timely coverage of the housing market, retirement, taxes, household health and wealth, student loans, and higher ed financing with a consumer-first focus. Our journalism aims to give context to what's happening with inflation, interest rates, home prices, and legislative and policy changes in a way that helps readers make smart decisions with their money.
A Lot About You:
Yahoo Finance is seeking an experienced reporter to build on and elevate that coverage. We're looking for a journalist who will quickly become an authority on consumer topics by following the CFPB, FTC, Department of Labor and other agencies and writing about how their actions and rulings impact consumers; following changes in tax legislation; and tracking trends in everyday Americans' savings and debt levels. You should be a storyteller, with the curiosity and news instincts to find stories on the beat that no one else is telling.
Responsibilities:
- Research, report, and write original news and enterprise stories that help make Yahoo Finance a go-to authority for consumer-interest news
- Regularly pitch well-formed, original ideas and act on feedback for shaping your ideas into stories, videos and graphics
- Deepen your subject matter expertise by reading current news and academic articles and interviewing a wide array of experts, industry professionals and everyday consumers
- Contribute to Yahoo Finance's original video programming, either with on-camera appearances discussing your reporting, helping create explainer videos or working with the production team on longer-lead features.
- Monitor performance metrics of your work to glean new story ideas and insights about the audience's interest and needs
- Collaborate with the evergreen personal finance content team to find opportunities to add or contribute content
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years as a professional journalist, including some time spent in daily journalism
- Experience covering personal finance and/or consumer issues, and a track record of delving deeply into the beat
- Knowledge of financial markets and economic events and ability to contextualize them in your storytelling
- Demonstrated record of superior writing skills and news judgment
- Agile, deadline-driven mentality and ability to turn around edits quickly
- Proven ability to conduct thoughtful, enlightening interviews with sources of all kinds in person and on the phone. (We have a strong bias against emailed quotes.) Experience in sourcing interviews and finding the best people to talk to for a given topic
- Absolute commitment to accuracy and putting readers first
- Strong understanding of SEO best practices and interplay with news coverage
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
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