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About the Role
Morningstar seeks a financial journalist to cover market trends with an emphasis on stocks. The role involves contextualizing daily market noise, informing investors on critical news and trends, and making complex market subjects accessible to a broad audience. The candidate will collaborate with colleagues, utilize Morningstar's research and data, and contribute to various media formats.
Responsibilities
- Produce three or four articles per week, ranging from short takes to longer deep dives.
- Identify key market trends and explain their significance.
- Provide timely and informative articles on individual stocks.
- Build narratives around key stock investing trends using Morningstar data and other sources.
- Report on how notable fund managers are approaching the market and individual stocks.
- Obtain, work with, and analyze meaningful data from internal and external sources.
- Transform data into compelling charts and visualizations.
- Assist with ad hoc writing and editing needs.
- Report on IPOs in collaboration with PitchBook specialists.
Requirements
- 3+ years actively covering stocks or other markets.
- A passion for the markets and crafting well-written stories.
- Experience covering mutual funds, ETFs, and other investing topics is a strong plus.
- Curious, creative thinker with a collaborative approach to producing quality journalism and storytelling.
- Proven ability to write on deadline and for same-day turnaround.
- Strong news judgment for identifying subjects for articles.
- Demonstrated comfort with Excel and learning new databases and other tools.
- A bachelor's degree.
- This role does not qualify for immigration sponsorship.
- Morningstar will not be considering candidates that require immigration sponsorship now or in the future for this role.
Skills
- Financial journalism
- Market analysis
- Stock market coverage
- Data analysis
- Data visualization
- Writing
- Storytelling
- Excel
- Collaboration
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-office (four days per week)
Experience Level
- 3+ years actively covering stocks or other markets
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $65,814.00 - $96,542.66
- Incentive Target Percentage 7.5%
Benefits
- 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
- Stock Ownership Potential
- Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision)
- Potential premium discounts
- Company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
- Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annually
- Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
- Trust-Based Time Off
- 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program
- 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave
- Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave
- Adoption Assistance
- Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities
- Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Charitable Matching Gifts program
- Dollars for Doers volunteer program
- Paid volunteering days
- 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups
About the Company
- Morningstar's core mission is to help investors meet their financial goals.
- Morningstar Inc.
Equal Opportunity
- Morningstar is strongly committed to creating and preserving equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.
- We make all employment decisions—including recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, termination, and other personnel matters—without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship, gender identity and expression, parental status, or other legally protected characteristics or conduct.
- Morningstar is an E-Verify program participant.
- Right to Work.