About the Role
The New York Times is seeking a talented, experienced, and versatile correspondent to join the tech pod on the Business desk to cover Anthropic as the artificial intelligence race heats up. This role requires a journalist who thrives when competing on compelling storylines, with proven success in building and cultivating sources and experience reporting on companies.
Responsibilities
- Generate original reporting on news, events, and trends on Anthropic and identify themes worthy of coverage.
- Build a network of sources to inform rich and original reports, news, and features.
- Write with authority, clarity, and independently.
- Handle breaking news as well as write thoughtfully and deeply about events, issues, finances, and people.
- Write medium- and long-term enterprise and occasional entertaining features.
- Cover news accurately and efficiently; maintain and cultivate news sources and contacts; obtain information through interviews, observations, and research.
- Present facts and analysis in clear written form, adhering to Times style, length, and other requirements.
- Develop high-impact stories from broader themes underpinning incremental news developments.
- Write on deadline; receive and react to feedback and edits.
- Contribute to and sometimes lead live briefings, join planning meetings, and provide live coverage.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and commitment to the company's mission.
- Report to the Business Tech Editor.
Requirements
- 5+ years of significant beat reporting and writing experience.
- Demonstrated ability to produce stories that are crisply written and well organized, framed to draw in busy, scrolling readers and delivered in language that is accessible.
- Experience as a collaborator and the ability to partner with colleagues across The New York Times newsroom.
- Submit resume and cover letter, including links to 5-7 clips that demonstrate range.
Skills
- Reporting
- Writing
- Source building
- Company reporting
- Collaboration
- Breaking news coverage
- Analysis
- Explainers
- Profiles
- Accountability reporting
- Enterprise reporting
- Newsletter contribution
- Video contribution
- Live updates
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- In-office (four days per week)
- Hybrid (potential flexibility to work remotely per departmental guidance)
Experience Level
- Experienced correspondent
Salary/Compensations
- $124,979.94—$190,000 USD
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development programs
- Potential for variable pay (annual bonus, restricted stock)
About the Company
- The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable, and quality journalism.
- The company seeks the truth and helps people understand the world through independent journalism.
- It has a world-renowned newsroom with journalists reporting from nearly 160 countries.
- Focuses on reader experience across print, audio, digital, and app platforms.
- Business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.
- Embraces a diverse workforce with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.
Equal Opportunity
- The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law.
- All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.
- Provides reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
