Business Correspondent, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
About The Position
The New York Times is seeking a talented, experienced, and versatile correspondent to join the tech pod on the Business desk to cover OpenAI and Anthropic as the artificial intelligence race heats up. This role focuses on two companies that are significantly impacting the future through their fast-advancing technology and becoming major players in Silicon Valley, dealmaking, geopolitics, national security, economics, and Wall Street. The ideal candidate is an energetic, determined, and collegial journalist who excels at covering compelling and important storylines, with proven success in building and cultivating sources and experience reporting on companies being prerequisites. This is a high-metabolism job involving breaking news, analysis, explainers, profiles, accountability stories, and enterprise reporting. The correspondent will collaborate with other tech reporters globally and across multiple desks including finance, Audio, Video, and Graphics. Responsibilities include writing articles, short live updates, contributing to newsletters and videos, and participating in collaborative reporting projects.
Requirements
- 5+ years of significant beat reporting and writing experience.
- Demonstrated ability to produce stories that are crisply written and well organized.
- Ability to frame stories to draw in busy, scrolling readers.
- Ability to deliver content in language that is accessible.
- Experience as a collaborator.
- Ability to partner with colleagues across The New York Times newsroom.
Nice To Haves
- A passion for professional development and the ability to learn from everyone around them.
- A collaborative, genuine, and independent spirit that takes satisfaction in not only their own growth but the success of their team and colleagues.
- Interest in directly engaging with our audiences to deepen their relationships with The Times.
- A willingness to be flexible as the newsroom’s needs evolve.
- A bottomless curiosity about the world and a love of news and storytelling.
- A commitment to the power of tough and fair reporting.
Responsibilities
- Generate original reporting on news, events, and trends on Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Identify themes worthy of coverage as breaking news, day news, or enterprise, in conjunction with colleagues and editors.
- Build a network of sources to inform rich and original reports, news, and features.
- Write with authority, clarity, and independently.
- Handle breaking news as comfortably and enthusiastically as writing thoughtfully and deeply about events, issues, finances, and people.
- Write medium- and long-term enterprise pieces and occasional entertaining features.
- Cover news accurately and efficiently.
- Maintain and cultivate news sources and contacts.
- Obtain information through interviews, observations, and research.
- Present facts and analysis in clear written form, conforming to Times style, length, and other requirements.
- Develop high-impact stories from broader themes underpinning incremental news developments.
- Write on deadline and receive and react to feedback and edits.
- Contribute to and sometimes lead live briefings, join planning meetings, and provide live coverage.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to the mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- Report to the Business Tech Editors.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development programs
- Variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock (dependent on role)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
