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About the Role
Marketplace is seeking a correspondent with proven audio and video reporting abilities and a passion for covering business and financial news in an explanatory and accessible style. The role focuses on engaging communities, building trust, and producing audience-centered, distinctive, useful, and emotionally resonant journalism across platforms and formats.
Responsibilities
- Pitch and report ideas for daily news items, features, and digital elements for Marketplace shows and digital platforms.
- Cover a variety of assignments including occasional hosting duties.
- Write sharp, concise, and accurate copy for audio and video segments.
- Synthesize multiple strands of a story and produce under tight deadlines.
- Deliver substantive reports quickly on varied subjects as shows need.
- Consistently deliver stories with Marketplace’s writing style and pace.
- Gather information, audio, and video for reports and programs.
- Assist other reporters, producers, and editors with information.
- Maintain a wide variety of sources.
- Perform other duties as assigned, including meetings and other events.
Requirements
- BA degree or equivalent work experience.
- 15+ years reporting or similar experience.
- National level experience preferred.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
- Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Skills
- Breadth of general industry knowledge.
- Strong oral and written skills with ability to deliver originality in writing.
- Capacity to deliver quick turn-around reporting.
- Experience producing audio, video, and digital stories.
- Ability to develop stories with multiple interviews, scene changes, and strong knowledge of subject matter.
- Ability to deliver top-quality stories.
- Ability to set fresh directions in stories.
- Knowledge of various process approaches and necessary resources for a given project/assignment.
- Demonstrated reporting and production skills.
- Ability to maintain high journalistic standards under deadline pressure, including standards of balance and fairness.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Skill in creative use of sound, writing, and storytelling.
- Ability to develop mastery of all recording and production equipment and techniques.
- National reporting experience.
- Radio reporting experience (preferred).
- Knowledge of specific industries (preferred).
- Digital production knowledge (preferred).
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 15+ years
Education Level
- BA degree or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $106,371 - $127,645 per year
Benefits
- Medical plans with HSA and FSA options
- Dental
- Vision
- Life and AD&D
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave after 1 year
- Vacation (3 wks./per year, pro-rated, based on hours worked)
- Sick time (12 days, pro-rated, based on hours worked)
- Holiday Pay (10 holidays + 2 floating holidays each year)
- Volunteer Time (8 hours per year)
- Long-Term Care and Critical Illness insurance options
- Employee Assistance Program
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
About the Company
- Marketplace is focused on engaging communities directly to create content that always informs, includes, and inspires.
- We achieve this by building trust and connection through journalism that is audience-centered, distinctive, useful, and emotionally resonant.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage members of diverse groups to apply.