# Markets and Investing Reporter

**Company**: MarketWatch
**Location**: NYC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,000 - $115,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

MarketWatch is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious Markets and Investing Reporter to help readers make sense of increasingly complex financial markets.

The ideal candidate will cover fast-moving markets through the eyes of individual investors, breaking news, producing sharp analysis and developing original enterprise stories that uncover investing trends before they become obvious.

**Responsibilities:**

- Cover breaking developments across financial markets with urgency, accuracy and context.

- Explain market moves, economic data and geopolitical developments in language that is accessible to a broad investing audience.

- Break news and develop enterprise stories uncover investing trends before they become widely recognized.

- Become deeply embedded in the retail investing community to understand emerging trends, evolving trading behavior and the most pressing individual investing questions.

- Cultivate relationships with traders, portfolio managers, strategists, economists, academics, regulators and individual investors to generate original reporting.

- Explain how developments in market structure , from options activity and exchange rules to new trading platforms and investing products , affect individual investors.

- Track innovations in investing, including digital assets, prediction markets, brokerage platforms and new investment products, helping readers distinguish meaningful developments from short-lived hype.

- Use market data, charts and public filings to identify trends, support reporting and communicate complex ideas clearly.

- Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom to produce impactful journalism.

- Pitch creative story ideas across multiple timelines, from breaking news to ambitious enterprise reporting.

**Requirements:**

- 3-5 years experience covering financial markets, investing or business journalism.

- Strong knowledge of financial markets, investing products, market structure and macroeconomic concepts.

- Excellent news judgment and an ability to identify distinctive story angles from market movements, economic data, research and public reports.

- A proven ability to explain sophisticated financial concepts in clear, engaging language for everyday investors and readers.

- Experience developing sources across Wall Street, academia, government, financial services and the investing community.

- A habit of connecting seemingly unrelated developments into meaningful and credible stories that help our subscribers make smarter decisions.

- Excellent writing skills, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to rigorous, reader-first journalism.

**What success looks like:** Success in this role is measured by your ability to help readers understand financial markets and take smarter actions.

Within your first year, you'll become a trusted voice on the retail investing beat by consistently breaking news, producing original enterprise, developing a deep network of sources and uncovering trends before they become old news.

**Benefits:** We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

**Salary:** $95,000 - $115,000

## Skills

### Required
- financial markets
- investing
- business journalism
- market analysis
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- podcasting
- video storytelling

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