Business Correspondent, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

The New York Times•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

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 at the forefront of AI technology, influencing Silicon Valley, dealmaking, geopolitics, national security, economics, and Wall Street. The ideal candidate is an energetic, determined, and collegial journalist who excels at competing on compelling 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, second-day stories, analysis, explainers, profiles, accountability stories, and enterprise reporting. The correspondent will collaborate with other tech reporters globally, as well as across multiple desks and teams including finance, Audio, Video, and Graphics. Responsibilities include writing articles, short Live updates, contributing to newsletters and videos, and participating in collaborative reporting projects. This is an in-office position based in San Francisco, requiring regular attendance four days a week, with some flexibility for remote work per departmental guidance.

Requirements

5+ years of significant beat reporting and writing experience.
Demonstrated ability to produce stories that are crisply written and well organized, framed to draw in busy, scrolling readers and delivered in language that is accessible.
Experience as a collaborator and the ability to partner with colleagues across The New York Times newsroom.
Proven success in building and cultivating sources.
Experience reporting on companies.

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 concerning Anthropic and OpenAI.
Identify, in conjunction with colleagues and editors, themes worthy of coverage as breaking news, day news, or enterprise.
Build a network of sources to inform rich and original reports, news, and features.
Write with authority, clarity, and independence, handling breaking news as comfortably as in-depth analysis of 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, adhering to Times style, length, and other requirements.
Develop high-impact stories from broader themes underpinning incremental news developments.
Write on deadline and receive/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 commitment to the mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.