# Reporter, Axios DC

**Company**: Axios
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $60,000 - $130,000
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

Axios is seeking a Reporter to cover the Washington, D.C. area as part of its local news initiative.

The ideal candidate will be a skilled writer who can own conversations about local news, lifestyle, and sports, and write engaging newsletters.

Responsibilities include:

- Authoring a daily Axios newsletter with insights and scoops relevant to the D.C. audience

- Having a deep understanding of the local market and sourcing to inform readers

- Experimenting with and using AI for reporting and newsletter production

- Writing in Axios' Smart Brevity style

- Contributing to the development of Axios Local

Requirements:

- Experience covering news in D.C.

- Excellent sourcing skills and ability to create new sources

- Ability to break news and create conceptual scoops

- Strong curiosity about the local community

- Comfort with expressing voice and personality in writing

- Proven experience working in a fast-paced news environment

- Desire to make oneself indispensable to local readers and Axios Local

Benefits include:

- 401(k) with employer match

- Robust health insurance options

- Employer HSA contribution

- Dental and vision coverage

- Paid leave and vacation policy

- Mental health day per quarter

- Learning and development stipend

- Work-from-home stipend

- Tele-mental health services

- OneMedical membership

- Personal health advocacy resources

- Inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits

- Access to the Axios Family Fund

- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers

- Virtual company-sponsored social events

- Strong and positive work environment

Starting salary for this role is in the range of $60,000 - $130,000, dependent on factors such as location, experience, and skills.

## Skills

### Required
- local news
- sourcing
- AI
- writing
- newsletter production

### Nice to have
- experience covering news in D.C.
- excellent sourcing skills
- ability to break news

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