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About the Role

Join The Australian Financial Review as a Markets Reporter to deliver lively, accurate, and agenda-setting coverage across equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and crypto. This role offers the opportunity to report breaking news, cultivate industry contacts, and produce compelling journalism for a highly engaged audience.

Responsibilities

• Drive and maintain the AFR Markets Live blog, ensuring up-to-date, accurate, and engaging coverage during ASX trading hours.
• Coordinate and write breaking news posts to drive digital traffic, responding rapidly to global market-moving events.
• Write a rolling sharemarket report for the print edition and produce in-depth research, interviews, and long-form articles.
• Generate original story pitches and ideas that expand newsroom coverage across business, markets, and the broader economy.
• Cultivate and maintain a strong network of contacts across financial markets to break exclusive news stories.
• Collaborate closely with newsroom editors and journalists on overarching coverage plans and key projects.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a financial journalist with an ability to break news.
• An understanding of global financial markets, major asset classes, and key investor themes.
• Strong writing skills across breaking news, feature reporting, and digital formats.
• Demonstrated ability to generate original story ideas and meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative, team-first mindset in a fast-paced newsroom environment.
• Must have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.

Skills

• Financial journalism
• Breaking news
• Global financial markets
• Major asset classes
• Key investor themes
• Breaking news writing
• Feature reporting
• Digital formats
• Original story ideas
• Meeting deadlines
• Interpersonal skills
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Established network of financial market contacts (highly regarded)
• Digital article production (highly regarded)

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Flexible hours
• Hybrid work
• Part-time arrangements

Education Level

• Tertiary qualification in Journalism, Finance, or a related discipline.

Benefits

• 18 weeks paid parental leave with no distinction between primary and secondary carers
• Access to 'Employee Exclusives' program
• Digital newspaper subscription to our mastheads
• Annual gift voucher for Stan subscription

About the Company

• The Australian Financial Review, one of our most trusted brands, has been the nation’s source for business, finance, and political news since 1951. Recognised for its news-breaking, agenda-setting and authoritative journalism, joining us means having the opportunity to make a real impact.

Equal Opportunity

• We're committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive Nine. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.
• We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, genders, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures as we recognise the importance and value of diverse perspectives. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please advise us when you apply.